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单词 car crash
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Definition of car crash in English:

car crash

noun
  • 1An instance of a car colliding with another vehicle or with an object.

    he was killed in a car crash
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He recounts a childhood memory of superhuman strength at the scene of a car crash.
    • Admittedly, over-the-top car crashes aren't anything new in these movies, but there's this one scene which defies all attempts to rationalize it away.
    • They were all in the same car crash together.
    • Despite the simplistic advertising campaigns, excessive speed is not a feature in 80 per cent of fatal car crashes.
    • During just the last decade, the total number of people injured in U.S. car crashes has topped 32 million.
    • Sara's husband and young daughter were killed in a car crash, which spared her.
    • A car crash has rendered Lucy with short-term amnesia.
    • Imagine a world without cars, traffic jams and car crashes!
    • He comes upon a car crash and rescues a baby.
    • For the last two years of his life he found it almost impossible to work and he was killed in a car crash in 1956.
    1. 1.1British informal A chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a ghoulish fascination for observers.
      〈非正式〉(引起旁观者怪异兴趣的)混乱场面,灾难性场面
      her life is turning into a car crash

      她的生活正变成一团糟。

      as modifier a classic piece of car-crash television

      一个经典的撞车真人秀电视节目。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her debut as director is not the total car crash you would expect.
      • You'd be forgiven for thinking the whole industry in Ireland is one slow car crash.
      • It was meant to be her big career revival, a triumphant return to form that would finally shush the incessant tabloid coverage of her car crash of a life.
      • Your life's a car crash.
      • If you're a fan of car crashes, she is being given a real kicking over on the Guardian's election blog.
      • Pretty much car crash TV, you know you shouldn't watch but you just can't help yourself.
      • His chat show is a car crash.
      • Her life's a car crash and the British public love to watch it.
      • This is not a leadership, it's a car crash.
      • His stream-of-conscious comedy can be astounding or it can be a car crash.
      Synonyms
      disorder, disarray, disorganization, confusion, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, madness, havoc, turmoil, tumult, commotion, disruption, upheaval, furore, frenzy, uproar, hue and cry, babel, hurly-burly
      failure, fiasco, catastrophe, mess, debacle

Definition of car crash in US English:

car crash

noun
  • 1An instance of a car colliding with another vehicle or with an object.

    he was killed in a car crash
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sara's husband and young daughter were killed in a car crash, which spared her.
    • Imagine a world without cars, traffic jams and car crashes!
    • During just the last decade, the total number of people injured in U.S. car crashes has topped 32 million.
    • They were all in the same car crash together.
    • For the last two years of his life he found it almost impossible to work and he was killed in a car crash in 1956.
    • He comes upon a car crash and rescues a baby.
    • A car crash has rendered Lucy with short-term amnesia.
    • Despite the simplistic advertising campaigns, excessive speed is not a feature in 80 per cent of fatal car crashes.
    • He recounts a childhood memory of superhuman strength at the scene of a car crash.
    • Admittedly, over-the-top car crashes aren't anything new in these movies, but there's this one scene which defies all attempts to rationalize it away.
    1. 1.1British informal A chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a peculiar fascination for observers.
      〈非正式〉(引起旁观者怪异兴趣的)混乱场面,灾难性场面
      her life is turning into a car crash

      她的生活正变成一团糟。

      as modifier a classic piece of car-crash television

      一个经典的撞车真人秀电视节目。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her debut as director is not the total car crash you would expect.
      • Your life's a car crash.
      • His stream-of-conscious comedy can be astounding or it can be a car crash.
      • Her life's a car crash and the British public love to watch it.
      • If you're a fan of car crashes, she is being given a real kicking over on the Guardian's election blog.
      • You'd be forgiven for thinking the whole industry in Ireland is one slow car crash.
      • This is not a leadership, it's a car crash.
      • His chat show is a car crash.
      • It was meant to be her big career revival, a triumphant return to form that would finally shush the incessant tabloid coverage of her car crash of a life.
      • Pretty much car crash TV, you know you shouldn't watch but you just can't help yourself.
      Synonyms
      disorder, disarray, disorganization, confusion, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, madness, havoc, turmoil, tumult, commotion, disruption, upheaval, furore, frenzy, uproar, hue and cry, babel, hurly-burly
      failure, fiasco, catastrophe, mess, debacle
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