Fall
[fɔːl] or [fɔl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; 'a fall from virtue'.
(noun.) a movement downward; 'the rise and fall of the tides'.
(noun.) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; 'the fall of the House of Hapsburg'.
(noun.) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat.
(noun.) the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; 'women have been blamed ever since the Fall'.
(noun.) the season when the leaves fall from the trees; 'in the fall of 1973'.
(verb.) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; 'fall into a trap'; 'She fell ill'; 'They fell out of favor'; 'Fall in love'; 'fall asleep'; 'fall prey to an imposter'; 'fall into a strange way of thinking'; 'she fell to pieces after she lost her work'.
(verb.) occur at a specified time or place; 'Christmas falls on a Monday this year'; 'The accent falls on the first syllable'.
(verb.) be born, used chiefly of lambs; 'The lambs fell in the afternoon'.
(verb.) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; 'The branch fell from the tree'; 'The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse'.
(verb.) move in a specified direction; 'The line of men fall forward'.
(verb.) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; 'The task fell to me'; 'It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims'.
(verb.) be captured; 'The cities fell to the enemy'.
(verb.) to be given by assignment or distribution; 'The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team'; 'The onus fell on us'; 'The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student'.
(verb.) lose office or power; 'The government fell overnight'; 'The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen'.
(verb.) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; 'We must stand or fall'; 'fall by the wayside'.
(verb.) yield to temptation or sin; 'Adam and Eve fell'.
(verb.) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; 'Light fell on her face'; 'The sun shone on the fields'; 'The light struck the golden necklace'; 'A strange sound struck my ears'.
(verb.) die, as in battle or in a hunt; 'Many soldiers fell at Verdun'; 'Several deer have fallen to the same gun'; 'The shooting victim fell dead'.
(verb.) be due; 'payments fall on the 1st of the month'.
(verb.) come under, be classified or included; 'fall into a category'; 'This comes under a new heading'.
(verb.) come out; issue; 'silly phrases fell from her mouth'.
(verb.) assume a disappointed or sad expression; 'Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off'; 'his crest fell'.
(verb.) slope downward; 'The hills around here fall towards the ocean'.
(verb.) begin vigorously; 'The prisoners fell to work right away'.
(verb.) to be given by right or inheritance; 'The estate fell to the oldest daughter'.
(verb.) be cast down; 'his eyes fell'.
(verb.) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; 'She fell back in her chair'; 'He fell to his knees'.
(verb.) go as if by falling; 'Grief fell from our hearts'.
(verb.) lose one's chastity; 'a fallen woman'.
(verb.) lose an upright position suddenly; 'The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table'; 'Her hair fell across her forehead'.
(verb.) come as if by falling; 'Night fell'; 'Silence fell'.
(verb.) be inherited by; 'The estate fell to my sister'; 'The land returned to the family'; 'The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead'.
手打:纳塔利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
(v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
(v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
(v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
(v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
(v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
(v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
(v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
(v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
(v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
(v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
(v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
(v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
(v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
(v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive.
(v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
(v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
(v. t.) To belong or appertain.
(v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
(v. t.) To let fall; to drop.
(v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
(v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
(v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
(v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
(n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
(n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
(n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
(n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
(n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
(n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
(n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
(n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
(n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
(n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
(n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
(n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
(n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
(n.) The act of felling or cutting down.
(n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
(n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
(n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
佛瑞德整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Drop, descend, sink, drop down.[2]. Be prostrated, fall down.[3]. Sink, be lowered, be depressed.[4]. Decrease, decline, be diminished, become less, die away.[5]. Sin, err, transgress, lapse, trip, trespass, commit a fault, do amiss, go astray.[6]. Die, perish, come to destruction.[7]. Empty, disembogue, flow, be discharged.[8]. Happen, befall, come.[9]. Become (sick, asleep, in love, &c.).[10]. Pass, be transferred.[11]. Be dropped, be uttered carelessly.
n. [1]. Descent, dropping.[2]. Tumble, falling.[3]. Cataract, cascade, waterfall.[4]. Extent of descent.[5]. Destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, downfall.[6]. Degradation, loss of eminence.[7]. Apostasy, loss of innocence.[8]. Diminution, decrease, decline.[9]. Sinking (of the voice), cadence, close.[10]. Discharge (of a river), disemboguement.[11]. Autumn, fall of the leaf.[12]. Declivity, slope, inclination.
凯西整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Drop, descend, droop, decline, gravitate, sink, lapse
ANT:rise, ascend, soar, mount, recover, climb
巴罗錄入
解釋/意思:
n. the cry given when a whale is sighted or harpooned: the chase of a whale.—Loose fall the losing of a whale.
v.i. to drop down: to descend by the force of gravity: to become prostrate: (of a river) to discharge itself: to slope down: to sink as if dead: to vanish: to die away: to lose strength subside: to decline in power wealth value or reputation: to be overthrown: to be compelled to yield: to become downcast: to sink into sin to yield to temptation: to depart from the faith: to become dejected: to pass gently into any state as 'to fall in love ' 'to fall asleep:' to befall: to issue occur: to enter upon with haste or vehemence: to rush: to be dropped in birth: to be required or necessary: to fall away:—pr.p. fall′ing; pa.t. fell; pa.p. fallen (faw′ln).—n. the act of falling in any of its senses: descent by gravity a dropping down: that which falls—a trap-door &c.: as much as comes down at one time as 'a fall of snow ' &c.: overthrow: death: descent from a better to a worse position: slope or declivity: descent of water: a cascade: length of a fall: outlet of a river: decrease in value: a sinking of the voice: the time when the leaves fall autumn: a bout at wrestling: the yielding of a city or stronghold to the enemy: that which falls: a lapse into sin esp. that of Adam and Eve called 'the Fall:' a kind of collar worn in the 17th century.—adj. Fall′en in a degraded state ruined.—ns. Fall′ing that which falls; Fall′ing-band (see Band); Fall′ing-sick′ness epilepsy; Fall′ing-star a meteor; Fall′ing-stone a portion of an exploded meteor; Fall′trank a medicine compounded of certain aromatic and astringent Swiss plants of repute for accidents; Fall′-trap a trap which operates by falling.—Fall-a to begin; Fall across to meet by chance; Fall among to come into the midst of; Fall away to decline gradually to languish: to grow lean: to revolt or apostatise; Fall back to retreat give way; Fall back fall edge no matter what may happen; Fall back upon to have recourse to some expedient or resource in reserve; Fall behind to slacken to be outstripped; Fall flat to fail completely as a shopman in attracting attention or purchasers a new book &c.; Fall foul to come in collision: to quarrel (with of); Fall in (with) to concur or agree: to comply: to place themselves in order as soldiers; Fall off to separate or be broken: to die away to perish: to revolt or apostatise; Fall on to begin eagerly: to make an attack: to meet; Fall on one's feet to come well out of a difficulty to gain any unexpected good fortune; Fall out to quarrel: to happen or befall; Fall over (Shak.) to go over to the enemy; Fall short to be deficient (with of); Fall through to fail come to nothing; Fall to to begin hastily and eagerly: to apply one's self to; Fall upon to attack: to attempt: to rush against.—Try a fall to take a bout at wrestling.
整理:维维安
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you sustain a fall, and are much frightened, denotes that you will undergo some great struggle, but will eventually rise to honor and wealth; but if you are injured in the fall, you will encounter hardships and loss of friends.
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Young lady, if my master don't fall out with me, I'll look down by the kiln by and by, where the boy will be most like, and again in the morning! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For ten days after this repulse the Duke of Brunswick hesitated, and then he began to fall back towards the Rhine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Did the horse fall in Hay Lane? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Livius got out of the carriage, and picked the man up, to ascertain that he was alive, as he fell without uttering a groan. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Chloe's countenance fell. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The attack was made and many shots fell within the fort, creating some consternation, as we now know. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She fell asleep, hoping for some brightness, either internal or external. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But how destroy them so effectually that there should be no second risk of their falling in such hands? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was very cold indeed, and the open country was white with snow, though none was falling then. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The songs she sang, without lament, In her prison-house of pain, Forever are they sweetly blent With the falling summer rain. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Trusting to herself, she had fallen. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Having fallen a good deal latterly into the late Sir John's way of always agreeing with my lady, I agreed with her heartily about Rosanna Spearman. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They began to fear that possibly they had fallen upon the wrong crosses, and that the true cross was not with this number at all. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He worked, and worked, and worked, in silence, and words fell on him as they would have fallen on an echoless wall, or on the air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I wish you could know Mr. Clayton; he is the dearest fellow imaginable, and unless I am mistaken he has fallen very much in love with me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Peggotty comes up to make herself useful, and falls to work immediately. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- All I mean to say is, I shall give myself no particular trouble to catch them; but if one falls in my way---- You'll snap him up, of course. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Finally practice falls of necessity within experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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