1HIT/BUMP INTOto hit something or someone that is moving in a different direction from you 碰撞,相撞 → collision
A car and a van collided on the motorway.
一辆汽车和一辆小型货车在高速公路上相撞了。
collide with
I ran around the corner, and almost collided with Mrs Laurence.
我奔过转角处,差点和劳伦斯太太撞个满怀。
Two trains collided head-on (=when they were moving directly towards each other).
两辆火车迎头相撞。
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In everyday English, people usually say run into rather than collide with: 在日常英语中,人们一般说run into,而不说collide with
Her car ran into the back of a truck.
她的汽车撞到了一辆卡车的尾部。
2ARGUEto disagree strongly with a person or group, especially on a particular subject 〔尤指在某一问题上〕冲突,抵触
collide with
The president has again collided with Congress over his budget plans.
总统在预算计划上又一次与国会发生冲突。
3if two very different ideas, ways of thinking etc collide, they come together and produce an interesting result 〔不同的观念、想法等〕碰撞〔而产生有趣结果〕
Istanbul, where East and West collide.
伊斯坦布尔,东西方文化交会的地方
Examples from the Corpus
collide• The two playerscollided and Jordan fell to the floor.• But that imagecollided head-on with life last month.• They were politely kind to each other, as people always are whose ambitionstemporarycollide in public.• Four or five cars had collided in the fog.• What was happening, and why did the super-powers collide just here and just now?• When the plates of land that form the earthcollide or slide past each other, earthquakes result.• Barker and Masoncollided while going for the ball.• For no apparentreason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction, killing the other driver instantly.• The transporthelicopter he was in collided with another and crashed.• This requires that the machine be placed on a surface such that the tray is not constantly collided with by passers by.• All of the Amor asteroidscross the orbit of Mars and could collide with it.• Duvall lashedbackwards, but Jimmy had leapt to his feet, colliding with one of the hessianscreens.• The humandesire for certaintycollides with our love of enigma.• I backed out of the door and promptly collided with someone. 'I'm sorry, ' I said.
collided head-on• Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trainscollided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.• A pickup truckcollided head-on with a car.• The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rearcollided head-on with an Amtrak diesellocomotive.• But that image collided head-on with life last month.
Origincollide
(1600-1700)Latincollidere, from com- ( → COM-) + laedere“to injure by hitting”