Women's sports are breaking down the barriers in previously male-dominated domains.

女子体育运动正在打破障碍进入一些先前由男子占主导地位的领域。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Our car's always breaking down. But we're getting a new one soon.

我们的汽车老出毛病。但我们快要买新的了。

《牛津词典》

By 1990, it was clear that the cohesion of the armed forces was rapidly breaking down.

到1990年时，武装部队凝聚力明显地迅速瓦解。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"And,what you see is a new economy breaking through what's breaking down: that heavy,industrialized, over-ambitious,over-productive, over-consumptive model, which is actually going to completely destroy our chancesof survival in the future.

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breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.

可能会损坏它，彻底的，回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。

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They see the phenomena of kids killing kids, hunger among plenty, elderly living alone and families breaking down--all because of frayed connections.

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The problem is that this separation between mouse navigation (for the two Desktop panels) and keyboard navigation (for the Metro panel) keeps breaking down -- either because a particular Metro app refuses to respond to the keyboard, or because Metro is just unable to do everything I want to do on that panel.

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Breaking down barriers--by standing up for her ideas, pitching to a client or even asking for an office--is depicted as exhilarating.

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