bankruptcy

英 [ˈbæŋkrʌptsi]

美 [ˈbæŋkrʌptsi]

n. 破产

Collins.2 / BNC.5401 / COCA.4171

牛津词典

noun

N-UNCOUNT 破产；倒闭
Bankruptcyis the state of being bankrupt.
1. It is the second airline in two months to file for bankruptcy...
  这是两个月内第二家申请破产的航空公司。
2. Many established firms were facing bankruptcy.
  许多成熟的企业正面临倒闭。
N-COUNT 破产事件；倒闭事件
Abankruptcyis an instance of an organization or person going bankrupt.
1. The number of corporate bankruptcies climbed in August.
  8月份企业破产数字攀升。
N-UNCOUNT 彻底；缺乏
If you refer to something'sbankruptcy, you are emphasizing that it is completely lacking in value or worth.
1. The massacre laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the regime.
  大屠杀使该政权的道德沦丧暴露无遗。

noun

a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent
inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
1. the company had to declare bankruptcy
2. fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks
Synonym:failure
a state of complete lack of some abstract property
1. spiritual bankruptcy
2. moral bankruptcy
3. intellectual bankruptcy

This long-drawn-out war brought their country's finance to the verge of bankruptcy.
这场旷日持久的战争使他们国家财政濒于破产的边缘。
The bankruptcy court denied the request.
破产法院否决了这一请求。
The company's assets were frozen soon after it filed for bankruptcy.
该公司的资产在申请破产之后很快就被冻结了。
The company is in bankruptcy proceedings in the wake of a strike that began last spring.
去年春天开始的罢工一结束，这家公司就进入了破产程序。
The Congress passed a new bankruptcy law.
国会通过了一项新的破产法。
I have actually been through bankruptcy once and I have lost a house.
实际上我曾经经历了破产，而且失去了房子。
Some of the factories are on the verge of bankruptcy.
有些厂家濒临破产。
At present China lacks market-based institutions and procedures for bankruptcy, restructuring and liquidation.
目前中国在破产、重组和清算方面缺乏基于市场的机制和流程。
The threat of bankruptcy is a legitimate tool to extract money from them.
破产威胁是从他们那里索得钱款的合法手段。
This is why we have bankruptcy.
这就是为什么我们有破产机制。