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小词详解 | topple
topple 英 [ˈtɒpl] 美 [ˈtɑːpl]
JD.com has adopted an expensive “asset-heavy” business model akin to Amazon’s in America. Thus far, its vast investments in warehouses, logistics and couriers have not come anywhere near toppling Alibaba.
京东采取了成本很高的“重资产”商业模式,与美国的亚马逊类似。到目前为止,京东在仓储、物流和快递方面的庞大投资还远不足以掀翻阿里巴巴。
——《经济学人》I was a boy when the Taliban were toppled in 2001, growing up here as new life was injected into the ruins of a capital that had been deeply scarred by civil war.
塔利班政权在2001年被推翻时,我还是个孩子。我在这里成长的过程中,饱受内战创伤的首都废墟也被注入了新生。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 失去平衡或变得不稳定而缓慢倒下
那个男人经过时蹭了她一下,使她从凳子上摔了下来。然后他醉醺醺地踉跄着走出了酒吧。他喝了两杯就醉了。
The man brushed past, toppling her from her stool. Then he lurched drunkenly out of the pub. Two drinks muddled him.那个身体灵活的女孩失去平衡,往后趔趄了一下,撞到栏杆摔倒了。
The supple girl lost her balance, staggered back against the rail and toppled over.
他们精心策划了一个推翻总统的阴谋。
They contrived a plot to topple the President.
我们经过北伐战争、土地革命战争、抗日战争、解放战争,以武装的革命反对武装的反革命,推翻帝国主义、封建主义、官僚资本主义三座大山,建立了人民当家作主的中华人民共和国,实现了民族独立、人民解放。
Through the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, we fought armed counter-revolution with armed revolution, toppling the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and establishing the People's Republic of China, which made the people masters of the country.
tumble: (typically of a person) fall suddenly, clumsily, or headlong overturn: tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down tip: overbalance or cause to overbalance so as to fall or turn over