There must be a pretty deep fault underneath there, or it wouldn't have caved in.
Il doit y avoir une dépression en dessous, ou sinon, ça ne se serait pas effondré.
All the brass have caved in.
Ils ont tous baissé leur froc.
I might have caved a little.
J'ai peut-être perdu.
Half the roof is said to have caved in
La moitié du toit effondrée.
Under the weight of the heavy snowfall, tents have caved in, and water tanks have frozen.
Des tentes se sont affaissées sous le poids des fortes chutes de neige, et les réservoirs d’eau ont gelé.
It was wrong of Tom Cruise to threaten South Park, and the television companies should not have caved to intimidation and pulled the first repeat episode from the air.
Tom Cruise a eut tort de menacer South Park, et les compagnies télévisées n'auraient pas dû plier sous la menace et retirer la diffusion de l'épisode.
Internet users in Russia speculate that PayPal may have caved to pressure from the Russian authorities simply because it did not want to lose its business in the country.
Les internautes russes supposent que PayPal a pu céder aux pressions du pouvoir russe tout simplement parce que la société ne veut pas voir ses activités dans ce pays interrompues.
Instead of sending a strong signal, we are sending a signal of a lack of political courage: spineless European institutions that have caved in to the whims of nationally blinkered governments.
Plutôt que d'envoyer un signal fort, nous manifestons notre manque de courage politique ; nous offrons l'image d'institutions européennes sans caractère qui ont cédé aux caprices de gouvernements aveuglés par leur égoïsme.
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