| 单词 | collision |
| 释义 | collision (once / 822 pages) n A collision is when two or more things smash together. You shouldn't give yourself a pedicure while driving because it might result in a collision, wrecking your car and spoiling your toenail polish to boot. Collision comes from the Latin col-, "together," and lædĕre, "to hurt by striking." When a train hits a car, that's a collision. An asteroid hurtling toward earth is on a "collision course" with our planet. Collision also works for abstract conflicts that get violent or hurt your brain somehow, like the collision between two politicians during a debate, or the collision of colors in your outfit. WORD FAMILYcollision: collisions+/collide: collided, collider, collides, colliding, collision/collider: colliders USAGE EXAMPLESThe Federal Aviation Administration says the collision occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. near Aero Country Airport. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Spain's Catalonia region seems set on a new collision course with Madrid after a vow by its leader to hold an independence referendum in 2017. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1n an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object three passengers were killed in the collision the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill Hypo|Hyper fender-bender a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage pileupmultiple collisions of vehicles smash, smash-upa serious collision (especially of motor vehicles) accident an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury 2n (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction Syn|Hyper hit contact, impinging, striking the physical coming together of two or more things 3n a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals a collision of interests Hyper conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute a disagreement or argument about something important |
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