英汉词典

fall 基本解释

• vi. 落下；变成；来临；减弱
• n. 下降；秋天；瀑布
• vt. 砍倒；击倒
• adj. 秋天的
• n. (Fall)人名；(法、芬、瑞典)法尔；(英、匈)福尔；(阿拉伯)法勒

fall 词态变化

fall 中文词源

来自PIE*pol, *spol, 掉落，词源可能同spill, split.

fall 英文词源

fall

fall: [OE] The verb fall comes from prehistoric Germanic *fallan, which also produced German fallen, Dutch vallen, and Swedish falla. The noun is partly a survival of Old English feall, partly a borrowing from the related Old Norse fall, but probably mostly a new formation based on the verb. The sense ‘autumn’, now restricted to American English, originated in the 16th century from an earlier phrase fall of the leaf. (Fell ‘cut down’ is related: etymologically it means ‘cause to fall’.)
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fall (v.)

Old English feallan (class VII strong verb; past tense feoll, past participle feallen) "to drop from a height; fail, decay, die," from Proto-Germanic *fallan (cognates: Old Frisian falla, Old Saxon fallan, Dutch vallen, Old Norse falla, Old High German fallan, German fallen, absent in Gothic).

These are from PIE root *pol- "to fall" (cognates: Armenian p'ul "downfall," Lithuanian puola "to fall," Old Prussian aupallai "finds," literally "falls upon").

Meaning "come suddenly to the ground" is from late Old English. Of darkness, night, from c. 1600; of land sloping from 1570s; of prices from 1570s. Of empires, governments, etc., from c. 1200. Of the face or countenance from late 14c. Meaning "to be reduced" (as temperature) is from 1650s. Meaning "die in battle" is from 1570s. Meaning "to pass casually (into some condition)" is from early 13c.

To fall in "take place or position" is from 1751. To fall in love is attested from 1520s; to fall asleep is late 14c. To fall down is early 13c. (a-dun follon); to fall behind is from 1856. Fall through "fail, come to nothing" is from 1781. To fall for something is from 1903.

To fall out is by mid-13c. in a literal sense; military use is from 1832. Meaning "have a disagreement, begin to quarrel" is attested from 1560s (to fall out with "quarrel with" is from late 15c.).

fall (n.)

c. 1200, "a falling to the ground; a dropping from a height, a descent from a higher to a lower position (as by gravity); a collapsing of a building," from the source of fall (n.). (Old English noun fealle meant "snare, trap.") Meaning "a sinking down, subsidence" Of the coming of night from 1650s. Meaning "downward direction of a surface" is from 1560s, of a value from 1550s. Theological sense, "a succumbing to sin or temptation" (especially of Adam and Eve) is from early 13c.

Sense of "autumn" (now only in U.S. but formerly common in England) is by 1660s, short for fall of the leaf (1540s). Meaning "cascade, waterfall" is from 1570s (often plural, falls, when the descent is in stages; fall of water is attested from mid-15c.). Wrestling sense is from 1550s. Of a city under siege, etc., 1580s. Fall guy is from 1906.

fall 词组搭配

fall 英文释义

1. the season when the leaves fall from the trees;

"in the fall of 1973"

2. a sudden drop from an upright position;

"he had a nasty spill on the ice"

3. a downward slope or bend

4. a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity;

"a fall from virtue"

5. a sudden decline in strength or number or importance;

"the fall of the House of Hapsburg"

6. a movement downward;

"the rise and fall of the tides"

7. the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions);

"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

8. the time of day immediately following sunset;

"he loved the twilight"

"they finished before the fall of night"

9. when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

10. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

"it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"

11. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"

"there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"

"a dip in prices"

"when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

fall 同义词解析

autumn, fall

这两个名词均含"秋天"之意。

autumn和fall这两个词的区别在于使用地区的不同，前者为英国用词，后者是美国英语。

collapse, fall

这两个动词都含有"倒塌"之意。

collapse： 通常指房屋等突然倒塌。

fall： 一般指由于失去平衡等原因而倒塌，也可作引申用。

descend, drop, fall, sink

这些动词都表示"落下，下降"之意。

descend： 通常指沿斜线或斜坡下降。

drop： 指物体从一定高度落下。

fall与drop同义，指突然或猛烈地降落，但fall也可指任何下落，同高度或形式无关。

sink： 指在空气或水中垂直下降、下沉。

fall 双语例句

1. Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.

有时候要到达谷底，才会慢慢变好。

来自金山词霸 每日一句

2. Here's an inside tip: The faster you rise, the harder you fall.

给你一个小忠告：爬得越快，摔得越疼。

来自美剧《绯闻女孩》

3. Over a given period, the value of shares will rise and fall.

股票的价值在某一特定的时期内会有涨跌。

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4. I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears.

我希望我们的呼吁不会没人理睬。

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5. He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.

他因摔倒而严重扭伤了脚踝。

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fall 实用场景例句

...Niagara Falls.

尼亚加拉瀑布

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He was elected judge in the fall of 1991...

1991 年秋他当选为法官。

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The Supreme Court will not hear the case until next fall.

最高法院将于明年秋开始审理此案。

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...panoramic views of the falls.

瀑布的全景

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As darkness fell outside, they sat down to eat at long tables.

屋外夜幕降临，他们坐到长桌旁开始吃饭。

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Both women fall into the highest-risk group.

两个女人都属于高危人群。

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That responsibility falls on the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

那由联合国高级难民署的地方分部负责。

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A vastly disproportionate burden falls on women for child care...

照料孩子的重担落在了女性身上。

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The bus was stopped and silence fell on the passengers as the police checked identity cards.

公交车被拦住了，警察检查身份证时，乘客们鸦雀无声。

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...the oddly named Quasimodo Sunday which falls on the first Sunday after Easter.

适逢复活节后第一个星期天的名字古怪的“卸白衣主日”

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Nancy, out of the corner of her eye, saw the shadow that suddenly fell across the doorway.

南希从眼角的余光里看见突然有个影子落在门道上。

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...a slender boy with black hair falling across his forehead.

一个身材颀长的男孩儿，黑发垂在额上

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As he laid the flowers on the table, his eye fell upon a note in Grace's handwriting.

他把花放在桌上时，目光落在一张写有格雷斯笔迹的字条上。

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The problems generally fall into two categories...

问题大致分成两类。

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'Business to Business' was taken over by another company after it fell into debt...

《致富》债务缠身，被另一家公司收购。

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It is almost impossible to visit Florida without falling in love with the state...

去佛罗里达观光而不爱上这个州几乎不可能。

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Another wave of troops followed the first, running past those who had fallen.

又一批士兵跟着第一批士兵从阵亡者身边跑过。

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With the announcement 'Paphos has fallen!' a cheer went up from the assembled soldiers.

随着一声宣告：“帕福斯陷落啦！”，聚集在一起的士兵爆发出一阵欢呼声。

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Croatian army troops retreated from northern Bosnia and the area fell to the Serbs...

克罗地亚军队从波斯尼亚北部撤军后，该地区落入塞尔维亚人手里。

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The moment Mrs Thatcher fell from power has left a lasting imprint on the world's memory.

撒切尔夫人倒台的那一刻在世人的记忆中留下了永久的印痕。

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Her father fell into the sea after a massive heart attack...

她父亲在一次严重的心脏病发作后坠入海中。

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Prince Charles has again fallen from his horse...

查尔斯王子又一次从马上摔了下来。

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The woman gripped the shoulders of her man to stop herself from falling...

这个女人抓住丈夫的肩膀，以免摔倒。

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We watched buildings fall on top of people and pets...

我们看到一幢幢大楼倒塌，砸在人和宠物身上。

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Winds reached up to 100mph in some places with an inch of rain falling within 15 minutes.

风力在一些地方达到了每小时 100 英里，15 分钟内降雨量达一英寸。

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Totally exhausted, he tore his clothes off and fell into bed...

他疲惫至极，扯下衣服，一头倒在床上。

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In the morning I got as far as the sofa and fell on to it.

早晨，我只走到沙发那儿，就一下子倒在上面。

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Output will fall by 6%...

产量将减少 6％。

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Her weight fell to under seven stones...

她的体重减到了 7 英石以下。

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There's a danger of the government falling because it will lose its majority...

政府将因失去其占多数的优势而有倒台的危险。

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