Breakdown

(noun.) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories.

(noun.) a cessation of normal operation; 'there was a power breakdown'.

(noun.) a mental or physical breakdown.

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• It's a breakdown blow, and it damages Lydgate as much as Bulstrode. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The schools of the Roman world had been altogether swept away in the general social breakdown. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After four or five years, in spite of repeated domestic afflicti ons and the breakdown of his own health, he arrived at a successful conclusion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Not only this, but each car becomes an independently moving unit, not subject to delay by reason of a general breakdown of the power plant or of the line. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The station equipment at Brockton consisted at first of three dynamos, one of which was so arranged as to supply both sides of the system during light loads by a breakdown switch connection. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There must first be some breakdown and necessity for direction that lets theory into her own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His chance came when there was a breakdown of the lines between New York and Albany. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• And while we have had to tell of something like a complete social collapse in the west, there were no such equivalent breakdowns in the east. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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