Definition of breakdown in English:

breakdown

nounˈbreɪkdaʊnˈbreɪkˌdaʊn

1A mechanical failure.
（机器的）故障
breakdowns could totally disrupt production
Example sentencesExamples
- We're back-after an absence of three weeks, due to a mechanical breakdown of the printing press and an industrial dispute involving chapels of the printing unions.
- This lack of foresight caused numerous mechanical breakdowns.
- Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown.
- Most of the contenders in the JWRC suffered mechanical breakdowns, punctures or accidents.
- There would be system breakdown, the business would lose direction, and employees would be overcome by lethargy.
- The disadvantage is that the line between terminals and the computer centre is, of course, subject to mechanical disturbances and breakdowns.
- With the weather on his side and no mechanical breakdowns, it will be a good harvest.
- Some mechanical breakdowns could be avoided if drivers properly inspected the buses before they begin their routes, as required by federal law, Scanlon said.
- He worked on the construction of the London Eye, and was also part of a retained team of rescuers who would have been called to the attraction in the event of a mechanical breakdown or terrorist threat.
- In the harsh environment of space, however, satellites may fail prematurely because of mechanical breakdowns, damage from solar flares, or collisions with orbiting debris.
- A computer systems breakdown was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
- It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown.
- The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns.
- There can be no guarantee, not least because mechanical breakdowns happen from time to time, and perhaps even gradually.
- Trash dumps, space fights, or mechanical breakdowns could all leave various sized pieces of often-viable space junk floating around.
- Our six-game block was starting earlier than usual because of a schedule change, but our day of bowling was delayed because of a mechanical breakdown.
- Accidents result from breakdowns in the mechanisms that practitioners use to anticipate, detect, and bridge gaps.
- But the diagram would also assume a lot: no stuck buttons or mechanical breakdowns, and no frustrated residents walking down the hall late at night and dumping all their waste without sorting it.
- As a side note, beware of mechanical breakdowns this week, especially on Tuesday.
- Clacton Leisure Centre cleared the swimming pool on Friday after a mechanical breakdown.
Synonyms
malfunction, failure, seizing up
crash
informal conking out
2A failure of a relationship or system.
（关系）破裂；（沟通）失败
a breakdown in military discipline
军纪败坏。
a communications breakdown
mass noun some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown
这些女人中的一部分将要经历婚姻的破裂。
Example sentencesExamples
- After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship.
- It is not a case of her not getting her own way at home, there is obviously a breakdown in her relationship with her mother because of her mother's new partner.
- Sometimes it's simply a problem of a breakdown in communications or a lack of understanding about the systems.
- This in turn can lead to prejudice and a breakdown in community relationships.
- Professional disagreements can sometimes accentuate personal differences leading to a breakdown in working relationships - with a serious impact on patient care.
- More specifically, the test is whether the employee's dishonesty gave rise to a breakdown in the employment relationship.
- Do you feel responsible at all for the breakdown in the relationship with the media?
- The town of Katima Mulilo was reported to have faced power failures and a breakdown in communications due to land lines having been affected by the rain.
- The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment.
- ‘You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship,’ he said.
- But even if the collection Scheme does become operational there is already a breakdown in the communication system that would have helped to make it more efficient.
- The result is a pattern of estrangement that can lead to a damaging breakdown in relationships.
- His father was furious to think that his son had been rated as his equal and this resulted in a breakdown in relationships between the two.
- The breakdown in our relationship with God needs to be dealt with first.
- If there's a breakdown in the parent-child relationship, an escalating game of cat and mouse involving the phone could escalate.
- There was a complete systems failure, and a complete breakdown in relations and cooperation between the FBI and CIA.
- If a sibling put me in this situation, I would be incredibly resentful and probably wouldn't care if my choices caused a breakdown in our relationship.
- The course is designed to assist people who are separated and help them meet other people who have experienced a breakdown in a relationship.
- So it is not just about a breakdown in the relationship causing questions of competence or questions of the value of the legal work that's being done, it's about predatory nature of lawyers.
- It's wrong to let them off the hook altogether and only blame the managers, the systems and a breakdown in communications.
Synonyms
failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through
informal fizzling out
1. 2.1 A sudden collapse in someone's mental health.
  （精神）崩溃，衰竭
  Heather had a breakdown following the death of her sister
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is what eventually led to his mental breakdown and the deaths of many of the heads of Britain.
  The matching of two combatants with a history of cheating and mental breakdowns, however, just doesn't serve to fill anyone with much faith that a fair, clean finale will end matters on Friday evening.
  Suicide, self-harm and mental breakdowns happen all the time.
  I ended up having a mental breakdown about 9 hours before the exam and managed a C for that subject.
  As one who has shot her mouth off while in the throes of a mental breakdown, I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that truthfully.
  Frontline troops are finding their tours of duty extended, causing huge morale problems and an epidemic of breakdowns and mental health problems.
  I think my management and my lawyer are both having mental breakdowns.
  Depression had a grip he admitted, and his problems were compounded by the stigma towards mental health and mental breakdown.
  He's gotten over all the deaths, mental breakdowns, and abandonment he used to obsess over, and now the angst in his lyrics seems to be more a matter of commercial necessity than deeply felt personal expression.
  Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse.
  It charts the decline and subsequent recovery of the then 19-year-old author, hospitalised in the late 1960s because of a mental breakdown.
  When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged.
  Two mental breakdowns appeared to accelerate the decline in his one good eye, yet he has an awesome visual memory.
  Though there was enough food and water on board to sustain her, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown and wouldn't eat.
  For he presents evidence showing that emotional breakdown after a tragedy is the exception, not the rule.
  And she had a basic breakdown of her nervous system.
  He resigned because of ill health and in 1889 suffered a mental breakdown from which he never properly recovered.
  I assume they wanted to see me have a mental breakdown.
  I have wondered, with no small degree of guilt, if we contributed to her mental breakdown.
  In fact, the house brought me close to a mental breakdown.
  Synonyms
  nervous breakdown, (mental) collapse
  informal crack-up
3The chemical or physical decomposition of something.
（化学的或物理的）分解
the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites
把氨水分解为亚硝酸根。
Example sentencesExamples
- Decomposition is the breakdown of these organisms, and the release of nutrients back into the environment, and is one of the most important roles of the bacteria.
- These fish suffer from immune system breakdown, infections, open sores, muscle loss and brain destruction.
- But they slow mental deterioration by blocking the breakdown of the brain chemical acetylcholine.
- A complete set of hydrolytic enzymes is designed for chemical processing and breakdown of most large molecules in the diet.
- These are formed during the oxidative breakdown of food.
- Over thousands to millions of years, the physical breakdown and chemical weathering of volcanic rocks have formed some of the most fertile soils on Earth.
- Malondialdehyde, formed from the breakdown of polyunsaturated fatty acids, serves as a convenient index for determining the extent of the peroxidation reaction.
- Some water supplies (mostly ponds and streams) contain some natural organic chemicals from the breakdown of plants and leaves.
- The breakdown of polymeric sugars begins in the mouth.
- The breakdown of the polymer coating is heat unit related, not triggered directly by temperature.
- Such strong inbreeding depression could explain the maintenance of SI systems where breakdown would be expected.
- The role of fermentative microbes is mainly in the partial breakdown of organic molecules that then serve as nutrients for the sulfate reducers and the methanogens.
- Chemical degradation is the breakdown of pesticides by processes that do not involve living organisms.
- Catabolism is the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler constituents, usually with the release of energy.
- Where tobacco tissue was subjected to extended incubation in the dark, accumulated transgenic levan did not breakdown.
- All of them block the breakdown of a brain chemical called acetylcholine that is important in memory and other intellectual functions.
- Catabolic processes such as solubilization and breakdown of cell wall polymers dominate in this situation, although there are reports of new cell wall synthesis also occurring.
- Holes in the ozone layer, or a global breakdown of stratospheric ozone would lead to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface.
- Micrite can precipitate from seawater or form from the breakdown of larger carbonate grains.
- It can also be formed by oxidative deoxyribose breakdown or autoxidation of sugars, such as glucose, and it plays a role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and ageing.
Synonyms
separation, division, break-up
1. 3.1 An explanatory analysis, especially of statistics.
  （尤指统计学中的）分析
  a detailed cost breakdown
  一项详细的成本分析。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It also gives a detailed breakdown of costs to distributors and compares this to the selling prices.
  If you look at the authoritative breakdown of the casualty figures produced by the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya, a rather different picture emerges.
  Like a naturopath taking a strand of hair and doing a complete cellular, system breakdown you have taken this tawdry, endless, episode and have done a fair and complete diagnosis.
  A breakdown of the statistics by police division shows that Port-of-Spain remains the most dangerous district in the country.
  The figures published by the Office for National Statistics give details of the total populations with age and gender breakdowns for all local authorities.
  Ask for a detailed breakdown of programme costs.
  In the five chapters which have tables showing the incidence of consumer or producer goods, however, the authors only allow breakdown by wealth in one of them.
  The zoo's annual report, published yesterday, did not give a detailed breakdown of the €5 million running costs incurred during the year.
  Under another new directive, all products containing any allergens must include details of their chemical breakdown.
  The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council.
  The developers have not provided a breakdown of the restoration costs which would enable a conventional assessment to be made.
  Without categorizing attacks through all possible demographic breakdowns, the analysis of terrorism in general remains flawed.
  The costing section provides the solicitor with a final MLSS invoice with a detailed breakdown of costs in respect of the work undertaken by the claims manger when a case settles.
  The report from the Office for National Statistics gave a detailed breakdown of population trends using statistics taken from the 2001 Census.
  The country-by-country breakdown clearly shows how widespread missile proliferation has become.
  We'll offer analysis and statistical breakdowns, more photos, more of everything.
  To support this premise, the following analysis looks at a breakdown of logistics costs as they relate to wholesale cost.
  Only 1 other investigator provided a more comprehensive analysis of cost breakdown per cost center.
  We establish open book costing right from the get-go and ask suppliers to provide detailed cost breakdowns.
  Howard provides details of the 1945 manifestos of the three main parties, and a breakdown of electoral statistics.
  Synonyms
  analysis, classification, categorization, itemization, dissection
  examination, investigation
  rare anatomization, fractionation

Rhymes

shakedown, takedown

Definition of breakdown in US English:

breakdown

nounˈbrākˌdounˈbreɪkˌdaʊn

1A mechanical failure.
（机器的）故障
Example sentencesExamples
- Some mechanical breakdowns could be avoided if drivers properly inspected the buses before they begin their routes, as required by federal law, Scanlon said.
- We're back-after an absence of three weeks, due to a mechanical breakdown of the printing press and an industrial dispute involving chapels of the printing unions.
- Our six-game block was starting earlier than usual because of a schedule change, but our day of bowling was delayed because of a mechanical breakdown.
- There can be no guarantee, not least because mechanical breakdowns happen from time to time, and perhaps even gradually.
- It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown.
- He worked on the construction of the London Eye, and was also part of a retained team of rescuers who would have been called to the attraction in the event of a mechanical breakdown or terrorist threat.
- The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns.
- The disadvantage is that the line between terminals and the computer centre is, of course, subject to mechanical disturbances and breakdowns.
- There would be system breakdown, the business would lose direction, and employees would be overcome by lethargy.
- Most of the contenders in the JWRC suffered mechanical breakdowns, punctures or accidents.
- In the harsh environment of space, however, satellites may fail prematurely because of mechanical breakdowns, damage from solar flares, or collisions with orbiting debris.
- But the diagram would also assume a lot: no stuck buttons or mechanical breakdowns, and no frustrated residents walking down the hall late at night and dumping all their waste without sorting it.
- A computer systems breakdown was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
- Trash dumps, space fights, or mechanical breakdowns could all leave various sized pieces of often-viable space junk floating around.
- With the weather on his side and no mechanical breakdowns, it will be a good harvest.
- Accidents result from breakdowns in the mechanisms that practitioners use to anticipate, detect, and bridge gaps.
- Clacton Leisure Centre cleared the swimming pool on Friday after a mechanical breakdown.
- Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown.
- As a side note, beware of mechanical breakdowns this week, especially on Tuesday.
- This lack of foresight caused numerous mechanical breakdowns.
Synonyms
malfunction, failure, seizing up
2A failure of a relationship or system.
（关系）破裂；（沟通）失败
a breakdown in military discipline
军纪败坏。
some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown
这些女人中的一部分将要经历婚姻的破裂。
the breakdown of their marriage
Example sentencesExamples
- The result is a pattern of estrangement that can lead to a damaging breakdown in relationships.
- The course is designed to assist people who are separated and help them meet other people who have experienced a breakdown in a relationship.
- ‘You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship,’ he said.
- It's wrong to let them off the hook altogether and only blame the managers, the systems and a breakdown in communications.
- Sometimes it's simply a problem of a breakdown in communications or a lack of understanding about the systems.
- If a sibling put me in this situation, I would be incredibly resentful and probably wouldn't care if my choices caused a breakdown in our relationship.
- But even if the collection Scheme does become operational there is already a breakdown in the communication system that would have helped to make it more efficient.
- The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment.
- Professional disagreements can sometimes accentuate personal differences leading to a breakdown in working relationships - with a serious impact on patient care.
- This in turn can lead to prejudice and a breakdown in community relationships.
- More specifically, the test is whether the employee's dishonesty gave rise to a breakdown in the employment relationship.
- If there's a breakdown in the parent-child relationship, an escalating game of cat and mouse involving the phone could escalate.
- Do you feel responsible at all for the breakdown in the relationship with the media?
- There was a complete systems failure, and a complete breakdown in relations and cooperation between the FBI and CIA.
- The town of Katima Mulilo was reported to have faced power failures and a breakdown in communications due to land lines having been affected by the rain.
- It is not a case of her not getting her own way at home, there is obviously a breakdown in her relationship with her mother because of her mother's new partner.
- So it is not just about a breakdown in the relationship causing questions of competence or questions of the value of the legal work that's being done, it's about predatory nature of lawyers.
- After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship.
- The breakdown in our relationship with God needs to be dealt with first.
- His father was furious to think that his son had been rated as his equal and this resulted in a breakdown in relationships between the two.
Synonyms
failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through
1. 2.1 A sudden collapse in someone's mental health.
  （精神）崩溃，衰竭
  Example sentencesExamples
  As one who has shot her mouth off while in the throes of a mental breakdown, I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that truthfully.
  Two mental breakdowns appeared to accelerate the decline in his one good eye, yet he has an awesome visual memory.
  In fact, the house brought me close to a mental breakdown.
  For he presents evidence showing that emotional breakdown after a tragedy is the exception, not the rule.
  I think my management and my lawyer are both having mental breakdowns.
  And she had a basic breakdown of her nervous system.
  Suicide, self-harm and mental breakdowns happen all the time.
  This is what eventually led to his mental breakdown and the deaths of many of the heads of Britain.
  The matching of two combatants with a history of cheating and mental breakdowns, however, just doesn't serve to fill anyone with much faith that a fair, clean finale will end matters on Friday evening.
  I have wondered, with no small degree of guilt, if we contributed to her mental breakdown.
  I assume they wanted to see me have a mental breakdown.
  Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse.
  I ended up having a mental breakdown about 9 hours before the exam and managed a C for that subject.
  He's gotten over all the deaths, mental breakdowns, and abandonment he used to obsess over, and now the angst in his lyrics seems to be more a matter of commercial necessity than deeply felt personal expression.
  Frontline troops are finding their tours of duty extended, causing huge morale problems and an epidemic of breakdowns and mental health problems.
  Though there was enough food and water on board to sustain her, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown and wouldn't eat.
  It charts the decline and subsequent recovery of the then 19-year-old author, hospitalised in the late 1960s because of a mental breakdown.
  When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged.
  He resigned because of ill health and in 1889 suffered a mental breakdown from which he never properly recovered.
  Depression had a grip he admitted, and his problems were compounded by the stigma towards mental health and mental breakdown.
  Synonyms
  nervous breakdown, collapse, mental collapse
3The chemical or physical decomposition of something.
（化学的或物理的）分解
the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites
把氨水分解为亚硝酸根。
Example sentencesExamples
- Decomposition is the breakdown of these organisms, and the release of nutrients back into the environment, and is one of the most important roles of the bacteria.
- But they slow mental deterioration by blocking the breakdown of the brain chemical acetylcholine.
- It can also be formed by oxidative deoxyribose breakdown or autoxidation of sugars, such as glucose, and it plays a role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and ageing.
- The breakdown of the polymer coating is heat unit related, not triggered directly by temperature.
- Micrite can precipitate from seawater or form from the breakdown of larger carbonate grains.
- Over thousands to millions of years, the physical breakdown and chemical weathering of volcanic rocks have formed some of the most fertile soils on Earth.
- Catabolic processes such as solubilization and breakdown of cell wall polymers dominate in this situation, although there are reports of new cell wall synthesis also occurring.
- Holes in the ozone layer, or a global breakdown of stratospheric ozone would lead to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface.
- The role of fermentative microbes is mainly in the partial breakdown of organic molecules that then serve as nutrients for the sulfate reducers and the methanogens.
- The breakdown of polymeric sugars begins in the mouth.
- Such strong inbreeding depression could explain the maintenance of SI systems where breakdown would be expected.
- These are formed during the oxidative breakdown of food.
- Some water supplies (mostly ponds and streams) contain some natural organic chemicals from the breakdown of plants and leaves.
- Chemical degradation is the breakdown of pesticides by processes that do not involve living organisms.
- Catabolism is the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler constituents, usually with the release of energy.
- Malondialdehyde, formed from the breakdown of polyunsaturated fatty acids, serves as a convenient index for determining the extent of the peroxidation reaction.
- All of them block the breakdown of a brain chemical called acetylcholine that is important in memory and other intellectual functions.
- Where tobacco tissue was subjected to extended incubation in the dark, accumulated transgenic levan did not breakdown.
- These fish suffer from immune system breakdown, infections, open sores, muscle loss and brain destruction.
- A complete set of hydrolytic enzymes is designed for chemical processing and breakdown of most large molecules in the diet.
Synonyms
separation, division, break-up
1. 3.1 An explanatory analysis, especially of statistics.
  （尤指统计学中的）分析
  a detailed cost breakdown
  一项详细的成本分析。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It also gives a detailed breakdown of costs to distributors and compares this to the selling prices.
  In the five chapters which have tables showing the incidence of consumer or producer goods, however, the authors only allow breakdown by wealth in one of them.
  The costing section provides the solicitor with a final MLSS invoice with a detailed breakdown of costs in respect of the work undertaken by the claims manger when a case settles.
  Without categorizing attacks through all possible demographic breakdowns, the analysis of terrorism in general remains flawed.
  The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council.
  The zoo's annual report, published yesterday, did not give a detailed breakdown of the €5 million running costs incurred during the year.
  The figures published by the Office for National Statistics give details of the total populations with age and gender breakdowns for all local authorities.
  Like a naturopath taking a strand of hair and doing a complete cellular, system breakdown you have taken this tawdry, endless, episode and have done a fair and complete diagnosis.
  The developers have not provided a breakdown of the restoration costs which would enable a conventional assessment to be made.
  Only 1 other investigator provided a more comprehensive analysis of cost breakdown per cost center.
  The country-by-country breakdown clearly shows how widespread missile proliferation has become.
  If you look at the authoritative breakdown of the casualty figures produced by the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya, a rather different picture emerges.
  To support this premise, the following analysis looks at a breakdown of logistics costs as they relate to wholesale cost.
  We'll offer analysis and statistical breakdowns, more photos, more of everything.
  Under another new directive, all products containing any allergens must include details of their chemical breakdown.
  Ask for a detailed breakdown of programme costs.
  The report from the Office for National Statistics gave a detailed breakdown of population trends using statistics taken from the 2001 Census.
  We establish open book costing right from the get-go and ask suppliers to provide detailed cost breakdowns.
  Howard provides details of the 1945 manifestos of the three main parties, and a breakdown of electoral statistics.
  A breakdown of the statistics by police division shows that Port-of-Spain remains the most dangerous district in the country.
  Synonyms
  analysis, classification, categorization, itemization, dissection
4A lively, energetic American country dance.

单词	breakdown
释义	Definition of breakdown in English: breakdown nounˈbreɪkdaʊnˈbreɪkˌdaʊn 1A mechanical failure. （机器的）故障 breakdowns could totally disrupt production Example sentencesExamples We're back-after an absence of three weeks, due to a mechanical breakdown of the printing press and an industrial dispute involving chapels of the printing unions. This lack of foresight caused numerous mechanical breakdowns. Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown. Most of the contenders in the JWRC suffered mechanical breakdowns, punctures or accidents. There would be system breakdown, the business would lose direction, and employees would be overcome by lethargy. The disadvantage is that the line between terminals and the computer centre is, of course, subject to mechanical disturbances and breakdowns. With the weather on his side and no mechanical breakdowns, it will be a good harvest. Some mechanical breakdowns could be avoided if drivers properly inspected the buses before they begin their routes, as required by federal law, Scanlon said. He worked on the construction of the London Eye, and was also part of a retained team of rescuers who would have been called to the attraction in the event of a mechanical breakdown or terrorist threat. In the harsh environment of space, however, satellites may fail prematurely because of mechanical breakdowns, damage from solar flares, or collisions with orbiting debris. A computer systems breakdown was like the straw that broke the camel's back. It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown. The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns. There can be no guarantee, not least because mechanical breakdowns happen from time to time, and perhaps even gradually. Trash dumps, space fights, or mechanical breakdowns could all leave various sized pieces of often-viable space junk floating around. Our six-game block was starting earlier than usual because of a schedule change, but our day of bowling was delayed because of a mechanical breakdown. Accidents result from breakdowns in the mechanisms that practitioners use to anticipate, detect, and bridge gaps. But the diagram would also assume a lot: no stuck buttons or mechanical breakdowns, and no frustrated residents walking down the hall late at night and dumping all their waste without sorting it. As a side note, beware of mechanical breakdowns this week, especially on Tuesday. Clacton Leisure Centre cleared the swimming pool on Friday after a mechanical breakdown. Synonyms malfunction, failure, seizing up crash informal conking out 2A failure of a relationship or system. （关系）破裂；（沟通）失败 a breakdown in military discipline 军纪败坏。 a communications breakdown mass noun some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown 这些女人中的一部分将要经历婚姻的破裂。 Example sentencesExamples After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship. It is not a case of her not getting her own way at home, there is obviously a breakdown in her relationship with her mother because of her mother's new partner. Sometimes it's simply a problem of a breakdown in communications or a lack of understanding about the systems. This in turn can lead to prejudice and a breakdown in community relationships. Professional disagreements can sometimes accentuate personal differences leading to a breakdown in working relationships - with a serious impact on patient care. More specifically, the test is whether the employee's dishonesty gave rise to a breakdown in the employment relationship. Do you feel responsible at all for the breakdown in the relationship with the media? The town of Katima Mulilo was reported to have faced power failures and a breakdown in communications due to land lines having been affected by the rain. The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment. ‘You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship,’ he said. But even if the collection Scheme does become operational there is already a breakdown in the communication system that would have helped to make it more efficient. The result is a pattern of estrangement that can lead to a damaging breakdown in relationships. His father was furious to think that his son had been rated as his equal and this resulted in a breakdown in relationships between the two. The breakdown in our relationship with God needs to be dealt with first. If there's a breakdown in the parent-child relationship, an escalating game of cat and mouse involving the phone could escalate. There was a complete systems failure, and a complete breakdown in relations and cooperation between the FBI and CIA. If a sibling put me in this situation, I would be incredibly resentful and probably wouldn't care if my choices caused a breakdown in our relationship. The course is designed to assist people who are separated and help them meet other people who have experienced a breakdown in a relationship. So it is not just about a breakdown in the relationship causing questions of competence or questions of the value of the legal work that's being done, it's about predatory nature of lawyers. It's wrong to let them off the hook altogether and only blame the managers, the systems and a breakdown in communications. Synonyms failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through informal fizzling out 2.1 A sudden collapse in someone's mental health. （精神）崩溃，衰竭 Heather had a breakdown following the death of her sister Example sentencesExamples This is what eventually led to his mental breakdown and the deaths of many of the heads of Britain. The matching of two combatants with a history of cheating and mental breakdowns, however, just doesn't serve to fill anyone with much faith that a fair, clean finale will end matters on Friday evening. Suicide, self-harm and mental breakdowns happen all the time. I ended up having a mental breakdown about 9 hours before the exam and managed a C for that subject. As one who has shot her mouth off while in the throes of a mental breakdown, I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that truthfully. Frontline troops are finding their tours of duty extended, causing huge morale problems and an epidemic of breakdowns and mental health problems. I think my management and my lawyer are both having mental breakdowns. Depression had a grip he admitted, and his problems were compounded by the stigma towards mental health and mental breakdown. He's gotten over all the deaths, mental breakdowns, and abandonment he used to obsess over, and now the angst in his lyrics seems to be more a matter of commercial necessity than deeply felt personal expression. Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse. It charts the decline and subsequent recovery of the then 19-year-old author, hospitalised in the late 1960s because of a mental breakdown. When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged. Two mental breakdowns appeared to accelerate the decline in his one good eye, yet he has an awesome visual memory. Though there was enough food and water on board to sustain her, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown and wouldn't eat. For he presents evidence showing that emotional breakdown after a tragedy is the exception, not the rule. And she had a basic breakdown of her nervous system. He resigned because of ill health and in 1889 suffered a mental breakdown from which he never properly recovered. I assume they wanted to see me have a mental breakdown. I have wondered, with no small degree of guilt, if we contributed to her mental breakdown. In fact, the house brought me close to a mental breakdown. Synonyms nervous breakdown, (mental) collapse informal crack-up 3The chemical or physical decomposition of something. （化学的或物理的）分解 the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites 把氨水分解为亚硝酸根。 Example sentencesExamples Decomposition is the breakdown of these organisms, and the release of nutrients back into the environment, and is one of the most important roles of the bacteria. These fish suffer from immune system breakdown, infections, open sores, muscle loss and brain destruction. But they slow mental deterioration by blocking the breakdown of the brain chemical acetylcholine. A complete set of hydrolytic enzymes is designed for chemical processing and breakdown of most large molecules in the diet. These are formed during the oxidative breakdown of food. Over thousands to millions of years, the physical breakdown and chemical weathering of volcanic rocks have formed some of the most fertile soils on Earth. Malondialdehyde, formed from the breakdown of polyunsaturated fatty acids, serves as a convenient index for determining the extent of the peroxidation reaction. Some water supplies (mostly ponds and streams) contain some natural organic chemicals from the breakdown of plants and leaves. The breakdown of polymeric sugars begins in the mouth. The breakdown of the polymer coating is heat unit related, not triggered directly by temperature. Such strong inbreeding depression could explain the maintenance of SI systems where breakdown would be expected. The role of fermentative microbes is mainly in the partial breakdown of organic molecules that then serve as nutrients for the sulfate reducers and the methanogens. Chemical degradation is the breakdown of pesticides by processes that do not involve living organisms. Catabolism is the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler constituents, usually with the release of energy. Where tobacco tissue was subjected to extended incubation in the dark, accumulated transgenic levan did not breakdown. All of them block the breakdown of a brain chemical called acetylcholine that is important in memory and other intellectual functions. Catabolic processes such as solubilization and breakdown of cell wall polymers dominate in this situation, although there are reports of new cell wall synthesis also occurring. Holes in the ozone layer, or a global breakdown of stratospheric ozone would lead to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface. Micrite can precipitate from seawater or form from the breakdown of larger carbonate grains. It can also be formed by oxidative deoxyribose breakdown or autoxidation of sugars, such as glucose, and it plays a role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and ageing. Synonyms separation, division, break-up 3.1 An explanatory analysis, especially of statistics. （尤指统计学中的）分析 a detailed cost breakdown 一项详细的成本分析。 Example sentencesExamples It also gives a detailed breakdown of costs to distributors and compares this to the selling prices. If you look at the authoritative breakdown of the casualty figures produced by the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya, a rather different picture emerges. Like a naturopath taking a strand of hair and doing a complete cellular, system breakdown you have taken this tawdry, endless, episode and have done a fair and complete diagnosis. A breakdown of the statistics by police division shows that Port-of-Spain remains the most dangerous district in the country. The figures published by the Office for National Statistics give details of the total populations with age and gender breakdowns for all local authorities. Ask for a detailed breakdown of programme costs. In the five chapters which have tables showing the incidence of consumer or producer goods, however, the authors only allow breakdown by wealth in one of them. The zoo's annual report, published yesterday, did not give a detailed breakdown of the €5 million running costs incurred during the year. Under another new directive, all products containing any allergens must include details of their chemical breakdown. The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council. The developers have not provided a breakdown of the restoration costs which would enable a conventional assessment to be made. Without categorizing attacks through all possible demographic breakdowns, the analysis of terrorism in general remains flawed. The costing section provides the solicitor with a final MLSS invoice with a detailed breakdown of costs in respect of the work undertaken by the claims manger when a case settles. The report from the Office for National Statistics gave a detailed breakdown of population trends using statistics taken from the 2001 Census. The country-by-country breakdown clearly shows how widespread missile proliferation has become. We'll offer analysis and statistical breakdowns, more photos, more of everything. To support this premise, the following analysis looks at a breakdown of logistics costs as they relate to wholesale cost. Only 1 other investigator provided a more comprehensive analysis of cost breakdown per cost center. We establish open book costing right from the get-go and ask suppliers to provide detailed cost breakdowns. Howard provides details of the 1945 manifestos of the three main parties, and a breakdown of electoral statistics. Synonyms analysis, classification, categorization, itemization, dissection examination, investigation rare anatomization, fractionation Rhymes shakedown, takedown Definition of breakdown in US English: breakdown nounˈbrākˌdounˈbreɪkˌdaʊn 1A mechanical failure. （机器的）故障 Example sentencesExamples Some mechanical breakdowns could be avoided if drivers properly inspected the buses before they begin their routes, as required by federal law, Scanlon said. We're back-after an absence of three weeks, due to a mechanical breakdown of the printing press and an industrial dispute involving chapels of the printing unions. Our six-game block was starting earlier than usual because of a schedule change, but our day of bowling was delayed because of a mechanical breakdown. There can be no guarantee, not least because mechanical breakdowns happen from time to time, and perhaps even gradually. It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown. He worked on the construction of the London Eye, and was also part of a retained team of rescuers who would have been called to the attraction in the event of a mechanical breakdown or terrorist threat. The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns. The disadvantage is that the line between terminals and the computer centre is, of course, subject to mechanical disturbances and breakdowns. There would be system breakdown, the business would lose direction, and employees would be overcome by lethargy. Most of the contenders in the JWRC suffered mechanical breakdowns, punctures or accidents. In the harsh environment of space, however, satellites may fail prematurely because of mechanical breakdowns, damage from solar flares, or collisions with orbiting debris. But the diagram would also assume a lot: no stuck buttons or mechanical breakdowns, and no frustrated residents walking down the hall late at night and dumping all their waste without sorting it. A computer systems breakdown was like the straw that broke the camel's back. Trash dumps, space fights, or mechanical breakdowns could all leave various sized pieces of often-viable space junk floating around. With the weather on his side and no mechanical breakdowns, it will be a good harvest. Accidents result from breakdowns in the mechanisms that practitioners use to anticipate, detect, and bridge gaps. Clacton Leisure Centre cleared the swimming pool on Friday after a mechanical breakdown. Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown. As a side note, beware of mechanical breakdowns this week, especially on Tuesday. This lack of foresight caused numerous mechanical breakdowns. Synonyms malfunction, failure, seizing up 2A failure of a relationship or system. （关系）破裂；（沟通）失败 a breakdown in military discipline 军纪败坏。 some of these women will have experienced marital breakdown 这些女人中的一部分将要经历婚姻的破裂。 the breakdown of their marriage Example sentencesExamples The result is a pattern of estrangement that can lead to a damaging breakdown in relationships. The course is designed to assist people who are separated and help them meet other people who have experienced a breakdown in a relationship. ‘You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship,’ he said. It's wrong to let them off the hook altogether and only blame the managers, the systems and a breakdown in communications. Sometimes it's simply a problem of a breakdown in communications or a lack of understanding about the systems. If a sibling put me in this situation, I would be incredibly resentful and probably wouldn't care if my choices caused a breakdown in our relationship. But even if the collection Scheme does become operational there is already a breakdown in the communication system that would have helped to make it more efficient. The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment. Professional disagreements can sometimes accentuate personal differences leading to a breakdown in working relationships - with a serious impact on patient care. This in turn can lead to prejudice and a breakdown in community relationships. More specifically, the test is whether the employee's dishonesty gave rise to a breakdown in the employment relationship. If there's a breakdown in the parent-child relationship, an escalating game of cat and mouse involving the phone could escalate. Do you feel responsible at all for the breakdown in the relationship with the media? There was a complete systems failure, and a complete breakdown in relations and cooperation between the FBI and CIA. The town of Katima Mulilo was reported to have faced power failures and a breakdown in communications due to land lines having been affected by the rain. It is not a case of her not getting her own way at home, there is obviously a breakdown in her relationship with her mother because of her mother's new partner. So it is not just about a breakdown in the relationship causing questions of competence or questions of the value of the legal work that's being done, it's about predatory nature of lawyers. After 2,600 words of this self-pity, Henderson is willing to take some blame for the breakdown in their relationship. The breakdown in our relationship with God needs to be dealt with first. His father was furious to think that his son had been rated as his equal and this resulted in a breakdown in relationships between the two. Synonyms failure, collapse, disintegration, foundering, falling through 2.1 A sudden collapse in someone's mental health. （精神）崩溃，衰竭 Example sentencesExamples As one who has shot her mouth off while in the throes of a mental breakdown, I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that truthfully. Two mental breakdowns appeared to accelerate the decline in his one good eye, yet he has an awesome visual memory. In fact, the house brought me close to a mental breakdown. For he presents evidence showing that emotional breakdown after a tragedy is the exception, not the rule. I think my management and my lawyer are both having mental breakdowns. And she had a basic breakdown of her nervous system. Suicide, self-harm and mental breakdowns happen all the time. This is what eventually led to his mental breakdown and the deaths of many of the heads of Britain. The matching of two combatants with a history of cheating and mental breakdowns, however, just doesn't serve to fill anyone with much faith that a fair, clean finale will end matters on Friday evening. I have wondered, with no small degree of guilt, if we contributed to her mental breakdown. I assume they wanted to see me have a mental breakdown. Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse. I ended up having a mental breakdown about 9 hours before the exam and managed a C for that subject. He's gotten over all the deaths, mental breakdowns, and abandonment he used to obsess over, and now the angst in his lyrics seems to be more a matter of commercial necessity than deeply felt personal expression. Frontline troops are finding their tours of duty extended, causing huge morale problems and an epidemic of breakdowns and mental health problems. Though there was enough food and water on board to sustain her, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown and wouldn't eat. It charts the decline and subsequent recovery of the then 19-year-old author, hospitalised in the late 1960s because of a mental breakdown. When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged. He resigned because of ill health and in 1889 suffered a mental breakdown from which he never properly recovered. Depression had a grip he admitted, and his problems were compounded by the stigma towards mental health and mental breakdown. Synonyms nervous breakdown, collapse, mental collapse 3The chemical or physical decomposition of something. （化学的或物理的）分解 the breakdown of ammonia to nitrites 把氨水分解为亚硝酸根。 Example sentencesExamples Decomposition is the breakdown of these organisms, and the release of nutrients back into the environment, and is one of the most important roles of the bacteria. But they slow mental deterioration by blocking the breakdown of the brain chemical acetylcholine. It can also be formed by oxidative deoxyribose breakdown or autoxidation of sugars, such as glucose, and it plays a role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and ageing. The breakdown of the polymer coating is heat unit related, not triggered directly by temperature. Micrite can precipitate from seawater or form from the breakdown of larger carbonate grains. Over thousands to millions of years, the physical breakdown and chemical weathering of volcanic rocks have formed some of the most fertile soils on Earth. Catabolic processes such as solubilization and breakdown of cell wall polymers dominate in this situation, although there are reports of new cell wall synthesis also occurring. Holes in the ozone layer, or a global breakdown of stratospheric ozone would lead to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface. The role of fermentative microbes is mainly in the partial breakdown of organic molecules that then serve as nutrients for the sulfate reducers and the methanogens. The breakdown of polymeric sugars begins in the mouth. Such strong inbreeding depression could explain the maintenance of SI systems where breakdown would be expected. These are formed during the oxidative breakdown of food. Some water supplies (mostly ponds and streams) contain some natural organic chemicals from the breakdown of plants and leaves. Chemical degradation is the breakdown of pesticides by processes that do not involve living organisms. Catabolism is the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler constituents, usually with the release of energy. Malondialdehyde, formed from the breakdown of polyunsaturated fatty acids, serves as a convenient index for determining the extent of the peroxidation reaction. All of them block the breakdown of a brain chemical called acetylcholine that is important in memory and other intellectual functions. Where tobacco tissue was subjected to extended incubation in the dark, accumulated transgenic levan did not breakdown. These fish suffer from immune system breakdown, infections, open sores, muscle loss and brain destruction. A complete set of hydrolytic enzymes is designed for chemical processing and breakdown of most large molecules in the diet. Synonyms separation, division, break-up 3.1 An explanatory analysis, especially of statistics. （尤指统计学中的）分析 a detailed cost breakdown 一项详细的成本分析。 Example sentencesExamples It also gives a detailed breakdown of costs to distributors and compares this to the selling prices. In the five chapters which have tables showing the incidence of consumer or producer goods, however, the authors only allow breakdown by wealth in one of them. The costing section provides the solicitor with a final MLSS invoice with a detailed breakdown of costs in respect of the work undertaken by the claims manger when a case settles. Without categorizing attacks through all possible demographic breakdowns, the analysis of terrorism in general remains flawed. The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council. The zoo's annual report, published yesterday, did not give a detailed breakdown of the €5 million running costs incurred during the year. The figures published by the Office for National Statistics give details of the total populations with age and gender breakdowns for all local authorities. Like a naturopath taking a strand of hair and doing a complete cellular, system breakdown you have taken this tawdry, endless, episode and have done a fair and complete diagnosis. The developers have not provided a breakdown of the restoration costs which would enable a conventional assessment to be made. Only 1 other investigator provided a more comprehensive analysis of cost breakdown per cost center. The country-by-country breakdown clearly shows how widespread missile proliferation has become. If you look at the authoritative breakdown of the casualty figures produced by the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya, a rather different picture emerges. To support this premise, the following analysis looks at a breakdown of logistics costs as they relate to wholesale cost. We'll offer analysis and statistical breakdowns, more photos, more of everything. Under another new directive, all products containing any allergens must include details of their chemical breakdown. Ask for a detailed breakdown of programme costs. The report from the Office for National Statistics gave a detailed breakdown of population trends using statistics taken from the 2001 Census. We establish open book costing right from the get-go and ask suppliers to provide detailed cost breakdowns. Howard provides details of the 1945 manifestos of the three main parties, and a breakdown of electoral statistics. A breakdown of the statistics by police division shows that Port-of-Spain remains the most dangerous district in the country. Synonyms analysis, classification, categorization, itemization, dissection 4A lively, energetic American country dance.
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