70. ¿Se puede decir Yesterday there was a complete collapse on the Castellana?
No, este enunciado es incorrecto. Existen varias maneras de expresar esta idea aunque ninguna de ellas incluye collapse.
Se ha colapsado el tráfico:
Traffic
has collapsed.
Traffic
has ground to a halt.
Traffic
has come to a complete
standstill.
There
is total gridlock.
The streets are
completely blocked /
jammed.
El verbo collapse significa ‘derrumbarse de repente, sin previo aviso’. Se puede emplear para referirse a personas o estructuras físicas, o para expresar que algo ha fallado o se ha devaluado:
Our boss collapsed and died in front of us – a heart attack, apparently.
It was so embarrassing when our kitchen chair collapsed under her weight!
Talks between the government and the unions collapsed amid bitter accusations of corruption.
When news of the scandal broke, the value of their company collapsed.