Otherwise, the country would fall apart like a heap of loose sand.

否则,就会成为一盘散沙,四分五裂。

属类：口语表达-演讲-

The biggest auto race of the year is ready to start. all the drivers are ready to go for broke and drive their cars until they fall apart .

今年规模最大的一次汽车比赛快要开始了。所有参加比赛的驾驶员都准备竭尽全力地争取获胜,那怕担当一切风险,把汽车开得散了架子也在所不惜。

属类：习语名句-美国习语-

Shop owner: Actually, most people don’t pay any attention to the maintenance of their vehicles until they fall apart and quit working. That’s really risky.

老板:事实上，大多数的人都等到零件脱落了或是车子坏掉了才注意到车辆的维修。那真的很危险。

属类：综合句库--

Social institutions--like atoms and stars--decay if energy is not added to keep them ordered, Friendships and families and economies all fall apart unless we constantly make an effort to keep them working and well oiled

社会机构--象原子和众星一样--如果不增加能量使其保持秩序，就会衰退。友谊、家庭及经济也都会崩溃，除非我们不断地努力使它们运转正常、润滑良好。

属类：综合句库--

As time goes by they get discouraged and their ambitions fall apart .

随着岁月的消逝，他们失去了勇气。他们的雄心壮志也都成了泡影。

属类：综合句库-英汉翻译-

I’ve read about a popular saying: The rise and fall of the country is everybody’s concern and business. So everybody lends a hand when society is about to fall apart .

我看到过一句很流行的话:天下兴亡，匹夫有责。因此，社会行将衰亡时，人人都起而效力。

属类：人文学科-历史-文明史

It was uncertain right up to our surrender whether the bizarre alliance of our foes would not fall apart

我们敌人之间的这种古怪的联盟会不会突然解体，这一点直到我们投降之时一直难以断定。

属类：综合句库--

I somehow felt him shaking, shaking as though he were going to fall apart .

我总有些觉得他在颤抖，就像要垮下去似地颤抖着。

属类：综合句库-英汉翻译-

Fragile materials that simply fall apart after a while

在很短的时间内就破碎的易损材料。

属类：综合句库--

The whole of harlem seemed to fall apart in the swirl of snow

整个哈莱姆区好象散落在纷纷扬扬的雪花中了。

属类：综合句库--

1:JUST a few months ago the euro zone’s leaders believed that, having weathered the storm, they were set fair at last.2:Buoyed by the promise of Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, to do “whatever it takes” to support the currency, confidence had seeped back into the continent.3:Growth seemed to be returning, albeit at a slow pace.4:Troubled peripheral countries were recovering, after bail-outs and painful measures to cut budget deficits and improve competitiveness.5:Unemployment, especially among the young, was still desperately high, but at least in most countries it was falling.[...]116:And bond spreads had narrowed sharply, as financial markets stopped betting that the euro would fall apart .

1:就在几个月前，欧元区领导人坚信，经受住了这场风暴，他们最终能取得胜利。2:欧洲中央银行行长马里奥?德拉吉承诺无论付出多少代价都会支持欧元，德吉拉的承诺鼓舞了欧洲人民，欧洲人民的自信又回来了。3:经济增长似乎在恢复，尽管是以较小的步伐。4:通过紧急财政援助和痛苦的措施来减少财政赤字，提高竞争力，遭难的周边国家经济也在复苏。5:失业率，尤其在年轻人中还是相当高的，但是至少在大多数国家该比率都在下降。[...]116:随着金融市场停止认为欧元会崩溃，票面利差急剧缩小。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-欧元区 那种再次下沉的感觉

1:It would not.2:An independent Catalonia would have more fiscal revenues, but it would also have a higher debt burden than Spain.[...]113:The argument that Catalans should not subsidise feckless Andalusians is a dangerous one: apply that more widely and the euro zone would fall apart .4:Indeed, far from welcoming Catalonia as an independent member, the euro zone’s leaders hardly yearn for an extra nation-state.

1:然而事实并非真如他们所想。2:如果独立，泰罗尼亚人民将上缴更多的税，而且承受的债务压力要比没有独立时还大。[...]113:有人认为安达鲁西亚人软弱无用，卡泰罗尼亚不应对其进行补助，但这一论调很危险：若广泛采纳，每个国家都这么想，欧元区将分崩离析。4:诚然，欧元区领导人一点也不支持卡泰罗尼亚独立，不希望多出一个国家来。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-权利的游戏 西班牙面临分裂亟待改革

Without Them, Machines Fall Apart

词汇掌故：细节决定成败

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：细节决定成败

Every machine is held together by its nuts and bolts. Without them, the machine would fall apart . That is also true of an organization. Its nuts and bolts are its basic, necessary elements. They are the parts that make the organization work.

每台机器都是由螺母和螺栓连接到一起。如果没有它们，机器就会散架。对一个组织来说也是这样。一个组织的nuts and bolts是指其基本的、必要的组成部分，它们是组织得以正常运转的一部分。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：细节决定成败

Every machine is held together by its nuts and bolts. Without them, the machine would fall apart . That is also true of an organization. Its nuts and bolts are its basic, necessary elements. They are the parts that make the organization work.

每台机器都是由螺母和螺栓连接到一起。如果没有它们，机器就会散架。对一个组织来说也是这样。一个组织的nuts and bolts是指其基本的、必要的组成部分，它们是组织得以正常运转的一部分。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：细节决定成败

His 1958 debut novel, Things Fall Apart , had made him a literary celebrity abroad and an influential public intellectual at home.

1958年的处女作《崩溃》令他在国外文学界一举成名，同时还令他在国内成为了一名具有影响力的公共知识分子。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The other cause of unease is the euro, which threatens either to fall apart or to require yet another German-backed rescue.

不安的另一个原因则是欧元，它面临着要不分崩离析，要不需要德国再一次出手相救的风险。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

They end up building tents that fall apart after less than two months.

不到两个月之后它们结束建造破碎了的帐篷。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

However, job offers can fall apart at anytime -- and at any size company.

不过工作机会在任何时候--不论大小的公司--都可能会蒸发掉。

属类：中国大陆-bbs.chinadaily.com.cn-

And if you stay you may well have the satisfaction of seeing this new relationship fall apart .

此外，如果留下来，你完全有可能开心地看到这段新感情的破裂。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

It is unlikely to fall apart at elections or any other time.

从而在大选或其他任何时候不太可能分裂。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

"I am convinced that the euro has staying power and won’t fall apart , " says Daimler (DAI) CEO Dieter Zetsche.

戴姆勒首席执行官迪特尔·泽金（DieterZetsche）称，“我确信欧元后劲儿十足，而且不会分崩离析。”

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But most MEPs, especially on the centre-right, want the new group to fall apart and are hoping to pick them off one by one.

但大多数欧洲议员，尤其是右派，希望这个新的集团能解体，并希望一个一个将其成员清除。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

Lots of you urged people to work at their most important friendships, rather than letting them fall apart after a fight or fade away.

但更多人敦促人们经营他们最珍视的友谊而不是让他们在一次冲突后分开或渐渐远去。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But keep on adding species, keep on letting them fall apart and, surprisingly, they eventually reach a mix that will not fall apart.

但继续增加物种，不断使它们分裂，很惊奇地，它们最终会混合在一起不再分裂。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But although the system will not fall apart overnight, with the years, the rust will set in.

但尽管贸易系统不会在一夜之间崩溃，但多年之后也将积重难返。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

But somehow, in other places, overpriced roads and bridges don’t seem to fall apart with such alarming regularity.

但是，不管怎么说，在其他地方，如此高价的道路和桥梁绝不会发生断裂。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

It did not fall apart after the demise of Lehman, another big dealer.

但是它在另一个大型交易商死后依然没有崩溃。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

When we process out the root of all these fears, the subtle pressure they put on us is gone. It starts to fall apart like a house of cards.

当我们分析出所有这些恐惧的根源时，恐惧带来的微妙压力就随之离开了，就好像用纸牌搭起来的房子一样，一碰就全倒了。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

When we do not handle unexpected events and the interpersonal elements well, our schedules fall apart .

当我们没有办法处理好未预料到的事情和人际关系时，我们的日程表开始支离破碎。

属类：IT行业-www.ibm.com-