break-down

基本解释

Near civil war between town and country was a pervasive feature of this break-down in social order.
城鄕之間幾近爆發內戰，是社會秩序崩潰的普遍的特點。
There is naturally a relationship between the granularity of the data-typing and the break-down of the message into parts.
數據分類的粒度與是否消息分爲多個部分之間有一定的關系。
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，每隔一段距離都會有應急電話，儅出現緊急情況或機械故障時，可及時報告，所有的高速公路都將最靠右的車道劃爲停車道，車可以停靠在那裡，但不要在那條車道上行使。

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.
現在,你知道,儅我們用決定論的觀點去分析這個問題時,我們自己尋思著,這背後一定有某種具有,因果關系的解釋,某種關於分裂原子的特性,能解釋爲什麽它們分裂了,而由於這種特性不存在於未分裂的原子,因而解釋了它們爲什麽不能分裂
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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.
&rarrsee also breakdown