While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.

虽然较高的小麦能更好地争夺阳光，但它们在额外谷粒的重压下会有倒塌的倾向——这种特性被称为倒伏。

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Larger and larger villages became possible, but this also made the system vulnerable to collapse.

可能会出现（规模）越来越大的村庄，但这也使得这一系统容易崩溃。

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Without this muscular action, inhaling is like sucking air out of a balloon—the narrow passages tend to collapse.

如果没有这种肌肉运动，吸气就像从气球里吸出空气一样——狭窄的通道往往会坍塌。

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The American economy and society are starting to collapse under the influence of big government.

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OK, and you can see that this thing ought to unwrap, it's going to keep extending out those multiplications until gets down to the base case, going to collapse them all together.

好，你可以看到这种方法,是怎么解决的,他一层层的将乘法展开一直到最底层,然后将他们一起乘起来。

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That's because it's here where the rigid polarities between light and dark and good and evil, all of these absolute oppositions, begin to collapse.

这是因为这里就是光与暗,善与恶之间严格的两极分化，及所有绝对的对比开始崩塌的地方。

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The breach caused part of a road to collapse and threatened a major sewer.

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It led the U.S. top income tax rate to collapse from 70% to 28%.

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While some are extremely painful, vertebral fractures are often asymptomatic until the spine begins to collapse.

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