"Chelsea didn't break us down. We broke ourselves down and that's why we lost 4-0," Robson added.

“不是切尔西击垮我们，是我们击垮了自己，这就是为什么我们输了4：0”，罗布森补充说。

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(download, so... that, break down) He had downloaded so many programs onto his computer that it broke down.

他下载了很多程序，以致他的电脑无法负荷而崩溃了。

youdao

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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But Sharapova regrouped in the second set and though Zheng battled back from a break down to draw level at 4-4, the Russian broke again to take the match into a decider, which she won comfortably.

BBC: Maria Sharapova sees off battling Zheng Jie

In the second set, Tipsarevic again hit back from a break down to take a 4-3 lead, but the British number one broke serve at 5-5 and held for victory.

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