A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management - especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.
一系列事故，包括2007年冷却塔部分坍塌以及发现地下管道系统泄漏，引发了对佛蒙特扬基核电站安全性和Entergy公司管理能力的严重质疑——尤其是在公司对管道问题发表了误导性声明之后。
The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.
该法案逐渐形成的共识表明，立法者们对美国邮政服务短期内出现政治上尴尬的崩溃感到担忧。
the collapse of operations.
运营的崩溃。
The Gutenberg printing press transformed civilisation not by changing the nature of writing but by changing its cost - and it would have achieved little without a parallel collapse in the price of surfaces to write on, thanks to an overlooked technology called paper.
古腾堡印刷机通过改变书写成本而非书写本身的性质，改变了文明；如果没有一种被忽视的技术——纸张——使得书写表面的价格大幅下降，它也不会取得太大成就。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。