break-down

基本解释

Near civil war between town and country was a pervasive feature of this break-down in social order.
城乡之间几近爆发内战，是社会秩序崩溃的普遍的特点。
There is naturally a relationship between the granularity of the data-typing and the break-down of the message into parts.
数据分类的粒度与是否消息分为多个部分之间有一定的关系。
Freeways have emergency call boxes at regular distances from where you can report an emergency or a breakdown. All freeways have right-most lane demarcated as the break-down lane.
在高速公路上，每隔一段距离都会有应急电话，当出现紧急情况或机械故障时，可及时报告，所有的高速公路都将最靠右的车道划为停车道，车可以停靠在那里，但不要在那条车道上行使。

They make proteins including oxygen-carrying blood substances, antibodies to protect against disease, and substances that break down sugar.
Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.
现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂
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He says the war-time unit helped break down racial barriers in the United States.

In April, a failed cooling device in turn caused a break-down in a mechanism that cleans the air in Mir's cabin of carbon dioxide.
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If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
If a discussion, relationship, or system breaks down, it fails because of a problem or disagreement.
To break down something such as an idea or statement means to separate it into smaller parts in order to make it easier to understand or deal with.
When a substance breaks down or when something breaks it down, a biological or chemical process causes it to separate into the substances which make it up.
If someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying.
If you break down a door or barrier, you hit it so hard that it falls to the ground.
To break down barriers or prejudices that separate people or restrict their freedom means to change people's attitudes so that the barriers or prejudices no longer exist.
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