3PHRASE 停止正常運行;崩潰 If something is coming apart at the seams or is falling apart at the seams, it is no longer working properly and may soon stop working completely. 停止正常運行;崩潰
Britain's university system is in danger of falling apart at the seams.
英國的大學體系面臨分崩離析的危險。
4PHRASE (場所)過於擁擠,人滿爲患 If a place is very full, you can say that it is bursting at the seams . (場所)過於擁擠,人滿爲患
The hotels of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest were bursting at the seams.