breaking-down

基本解释

So the breaking-down of the building allows them to have lots of work gangs with not huge skills.
所以拆掉这些建筑的一部分来确定他们没有许多高超的技术。
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An important feature of urbanization during the reform era is that it needs to be based on the breaking-down of the urban-rural separation.
改革以来城市化的最大特点是在打破城乡要素分割的基础上实现的。
The present method for testing aging and breaking-down property of polymer is usually carried out by testing its electrical property. This conventional is of low reliability.
目前国内普遍采用的检测绝缘聚合物击穿性能的方法是测试其电性能，这种方法可靠性较低；

"And,what you see is a new economy breaking through what's breaking down: that heavy,industrialized, over-ambitious,over-productive, over-consumptive model, which is actually going to completely destroy our chancesof survival in the future.
breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.
可能会损坏它，彻底的，回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。
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They see the phenomena of kids killing kids, hunger among plenty, elderly living alone and families breaking down--all because of frayed connections.
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The problem is that this separation between mouse navigation (for the two Desktop panels) and keyboard navigation (for the Metro panel) keeps breaking down -- either because a particular Metro app refuses to respond to the keyboard, or because Metro is just unable to do everything I want to do on that panel.
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