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

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。
A recession like that of 1973 – 1974 could put one in ten American companies into bankruptcy
像1973–1974年间那样的经济衰退能让1/10的美国公司破产。
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 company is on the brink of bankruptcy.
该公司已濒临破产的边缘。
China's new bankruptcy law does not resolve the problem of judicial confirmation to the reconciliation outside the court.
我国新破产法没有解决司法对法院外和解的确认问题。
The recession and hospital bills drove them into bankruptcy
经济衰退和医疗账单逼得他们破产了。
You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.
如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
The scheme's investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to abandon the project.
因为担心破产，该计划的投资者决定放弃这个项目。
He is on the verge of bankruptcy.
他已近乎破产。
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。