topple

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  • v.倒下；打倒；推翻；颠覆
  • Web倾倒；推倒；倾覆
Simple Present：topples  Present Participle：toppling  Past Tense：toppled  

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topple
v.
1.
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（使）失去平衡而坠落，倒塌，倒下to become unsteady and fall down; to make sth do this
The pile of books toppled over.
那一摞书倒了。
He brushed past, toppling her from her stool.
他经过时蹭了她一下，使她从凳子上摔了下来。
2.
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~ sb/sth
打倒；推翻；颠覆to make sb lose their position of power or authority
a plot to topple the President
推翻总统的阴谋

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1.
Georgian officials linked the reported coup attempt to Russia, and said it was intended to topple President Mikael Saakashvili.
格鲁吉亚官员认为政变意图跟俄罗斯有关，指俄罗斯有意推翻格鲁吉亚总统萨卡什维利。
gé lǔ jí yà guān yuán rèn wéi zhèng biàn yì tú gēn é luó sī yǒu guān , zhǐ é luó sī yǒu yì tuī fān gé lǔ jí yà zǒng tǒng sà kǎ shí wéi lì 。
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2.
And I won't even [need to] explain to you how it was when he was in great form. . . Then, he would topple a match all by himself.
我更不用向你们解释，他状态好的时候是什麽样子……那时，他一个人就能搞定比赛。
wǒ gèng bú yòng xiàng nǐ men jiě shì , tā zhuàng tài hǎo de shí hou shì shén mó yàng zǐ … … nà shí , tā yī gè rén jiù néng gǎo dìng bǐ sài 。
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3.
Some Gazans fear it is a ruse to lull them into a sense of false security before Israel's tanks roll back and try again to topple Hamas.
一些加沙人担心这一切是诱使他们获得虚假安全感的诡计，随后以军坦克便滚滚而来，再次推翻哈马斯政权。
yì xiē jiā shā rén dān xīn zhè yí qiè shì yòu shǐ tā men huò de xū jiǎ ān quán gǎn de guǐ jì , suí hòu yǐ jūn tǎn kè biàn gǔn gǔn ér lái , zài cì tuī fān hā mǎ sī zhèng quán 。
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4.
It starts to slightly wobble, and the screen goes black after it begins a HARD WOBBLE as if it is about to topple, not correct itself.
它开始轻微摇晃，就在它开始大幅度摇晃像要倒下而不是校准自身时，屏幕就变黑了。
tā kāi shǐ qīng wēi yáo huàng , jiù zài tā kāi shǐ dà fú dù yáo huàng xiàng yào dǎo xià ér bú shì jiào zhǔn zì shēn shí , píng mù jiù biàn hēi le 。
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5.
The next election is not due until 2012, and a fractious opposition seems unable to topple his minority government.
因为下届选举要到2012年，而且反对派似乎也无力推倒他的少数党政府。
yīn wèi xià jiè xuǎn jǔ yào dào èr líng yī èr nián , ér qiě fǎn duì pài sì hū yě wú lì tuī dǎo tā de shǎo shù dǎng zhèng fǔ 。
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First, we see that it is possible to topple a hated regime without resorting to a civil war.
第一，我们发现不通过发动内战的方法是有可能推翻一个令人厌恶的政权的。
dì yī , wǒ men fā xiàn bù tōng guò fā dòng nèi zhàn de fāng fǎ shì yǒu kě néng tuī fān yī gè lìng rén yàn wù de zhèng quán de 。
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Information is not enough to topple regimes, but in the end, regimes that fight the openness of information are doomed to fail, he said.
“信息不足以推翻政权，但最终，那些打击信息公开化的政权注定会走向失败”，他说。
" xìn xī bù zú yǐ tuī fān zhèng quán , dàn zuì zhōng , nà xiē dǎ jī xìn xī gōng kāi huà de zhèng quán zhù dìng huì zǒu xiàng shī bài " , tā shuō 。
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Wise to resign now than later otherwise it's just a matter of time that oppositions topple their government and label them as dictators.
（李光耀）现在辞职比以后下台民智。反对他的（威权）政府和被认定为独裁者只是个时间问题。
( lǐ guāng yào ) xiàn zài cí zhí bǐ yǐ hòu xià tái mín zhì 。 fǎn duì tā de ( wēi quán ) zhèng fǔ hé bèi rèn dìng wèi dú cái zhě zhǐ shì gè shí jiān wèn tí 。
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Opposition parties which had pushed for the no-confidence motion emphasised that they would continue to seek to topple Mr Kan.
推动不信任案的几个反对党强调称，他们将继续寻求推翻菅直人。
tuī dòng bù xìn rèn àn de jǐ gè fǎn duì dǎng qiáng diào chēng , tā men jiāng jì xù xún qiú tuī fān jiān zhí rén 。
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10.
He slapped his knee and began to topple from his seat .
他拍膝盖，开始在座位上昏昏沉沉地倒下去。
tā pāi xī gài , kāi shǐ zài zuò wèi shàng hūn hūn chén chén de dǎo xià qù 。
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