collapse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 倒坍; (精神) 垮下来，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liberalism is not a sin, it is a necessary part of a great whole, which whole would collapse and fall to pieces without it.
-- The world, the world is the world, of course and people will talk and and the prince has property, you know if it is not very large and then he he ' (Contin-ued silence, and collapse of the general.)
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This disaster was the sudden collapse of the habits that had become part of his nature in the ten or more monotonous years he had spent on the island.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Merriwether felt that the South was heading for a complete moral collapse and frequently said so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.
-- After watching it for what appeared in the silence and by the light of the slowly wasting candles to be a long time, she was roused by the collapse of some of the red coals, and looked towards me again--at first, vacantly--then, with a gradually concentrating attention.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would only collapse when the breath left his body.
-- The whole unifying idea of mankind seemed to be dying with his father, the centralising force that had held the whole together seemed to collapse with his father, the parts were ready to go asunder in terrible disintegration.
-- He was afraid of some horrible collapse in himself.
-- But as the fight went on, and all that he had been and was continued to be destroyed, so that life was a hollow shell all round him, roaring and clattering like the sound of the sea, a noise in which he participated externally, and inside this hollow shell was all the darkness and fearful space of death, he knew he would have to find reinforcements, otherwise he would collapse inwards upon the great dark void which circled at the centre of his soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of this, the great stable of the convent, occupying the basement story and entered by the basement door, outside which all the disorder was, poured forth its contribution of cloud, as if the whole rugged edifice were filled with nothing else, and would collapse as soon as it had emptied itself, leaving the snow to fall upon the bare mountain summit.
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