"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom;

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

On the other hand the Fed is also concerned with unemployment and the possibility of a collapse in the system.

另一方面,美联储也被失业和,这个体系中崩塌地潜在的可能性困扰着。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Contrast his images of joyous or demonic assent with the images of catastrophe, of descent, of collapse in Eliot, "London Bridge is falling down."

对比他关于喜悦或着迷的描写,这些都是和灾难，对衰退的描写，或者艾略特描写的崩塌“伦敦桥在倒塌“，相一致的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

We had a big scare in 1998; it started with the Asian financial crisis and then it spread to Russia and there was this terrible collapse in Russia in 1998, when the government couldn't pay its debts.

我们经历过最大的一次经济创伤是在1998年;,这次金融危机因亚洲金融危机而起,然后蔓延到俄罗斯,随后对俄罗斯的经济产生了极大地冲击，俄政府担负不起债务。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In addition,he said the government's options for dealing with AIG's collapse were limited from the start.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The central bank also announced that it would purchase up to $750 billion of additional mortgage-backed securities, which lost value with the collapse of the U.S.housing market.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Earlier this week, Secretary Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also discussed with Congress another step which would enable the government to take control of major non-bank financial institutions threatened with collapse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26