economic meltdown

基本解释

THE economic meltdown has popularised a new term: deglobalisation.
经济崩溃促成一个新词的流行：去全球化。
The most popular targets of public anger are the greedheads and incompetents who plunged the country into economic meltdown.
而公众愤怒的焦点则指向那些致使国家经济陷入崩溃的贪婪者和无能者。
After Fukushima, Germany announced that it would phase out nuclear power. And yet, when it comes to the sovereign-debt crisis, Germany is prepared to live with the risk of economic meltdown.
福岛核泄漏发生后，德国宣布将逐步淘汰核电站，但至于主权债务危机这个问题，德国的态度是：他将承受经济垮台所带来的风险。

"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

In the heat of an economic meltdown, the struggle for survival can compromise societal niceties.
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And despite the economic meltdown that has gripped the world, including Europe, gamers are dedicated consumers.
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After inflation, college costs increased by 75% in the previous decade before the economic meltdown.
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