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fall

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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

考试真题

There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to £1.

The result is falling water tables ( ' , 地下水位) in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

Attitudes toward new technologies often fall along generational lines.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.

Some began to stop taking bathroom breaks, worried that if their productivity fell they would be fired.

Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.

Sales people often fall into this category.

Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.

Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

A preliminary review of Mexico's taxation found a fall in purchases of taxed drinks as well as a rise in sales of untaxed and healthier drinks.

The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

Dean Granholm, the vice president for delivery and post office operations, said the first waves of closings would begin this fall.

At least, the American side of the falls.

They have trouble falling asleep.

They don't fall asleep until very late.

Similarly, Americans' late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.

Some scientistsmaintain that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (无规律的) variation—some years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm yearsrecently—but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.

Its own oil production falls short of demand.

People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading," says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine's medical program this fall.

O'Sullivan believes that when people from different cultures fall in love, they expect different things from their partner

their technology has fallen behind their competitors' elsewhere in the world

Regulators falling asleep at work?

Marriott had its worst quarter ever, with revenues per room falling by 25%

Industrial production fell by 12.8% in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War.

Median (中位数的) pay for chief executives of S&P 500 companies fell

But there was some pain for everyone: median pay for chief executives of non-financial firms in the S&P 500 fell by 2.7%.

His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.

My partner says no because the boiler could go, or the roof fall off and we have no savings to save us

Interracial roommates are more likely to fall out.

More access to nature makes children less likely to fall ill.

When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.

I was starting to feel like my whole world was falling apart – kind of slipping into a depression," said Carla.

Worst of all, when her son, Ned, fell and injured his knee, she refused to pay for a doctor and spent hours looking for free medical help.

My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday.

After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall, USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received or time.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to £1.11 billion in 2016.

Guests would fall silent in wonder as servants carried Careme's fancy creations into the dining hall.

In fall 2010, she helped launch a pilot project in Chicago to see if the I Pad could improve working conditions and patient care.

New York's Attorney General's office launched an investigation in the fall into whether or not Verizon, Cablevision and time Warner are delivering broadband that's as fast as the providers claim it is.

On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venice's main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge.

Rather than offer evidence for categorizing brains as "male" or "female, " research shows that brains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in the middle.

similarly, Americans' late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.

Starting last Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to 2, 000 dollars for not showing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price.

The-doctors response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love like humans do was a straight "Of course!" He went on to say that if love is defined as a long term commitment meaning dogs seek one another out when they're apart, they're happy

Tourism throughout' Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the victim of several deadly terrorist attacks.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

This lawyer had fallen victim to the don’ts syndrome—a form of negative goals setting.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.

This approach has led over time to a fall in smoking with numbers having roughly halved since the 1970s.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.

Cigarette sales have been falling far more quickly than in the UK.

When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

At the base of a mountain in Tanzania Gregory rift, Lake Natron burns bright red, surrounded by the remains of animals that were unfortunate enough to fall into the salty water.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

That would definitely fall within the price adjustment window.

The Child Poverty Action Group says 9 out of 30 in every classroom fall below the poverty line.

The Indian Rupee has taken a fall on the foreign exchange market.

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

Also, don't wear loose clothes, long scarves, big necklaces, or loose belts — they get caught in something or fall into liquid.

But when it's time for bed, you can hardly fall asleep.

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground---and, in the process, it belongs out important evidence about how physical objects interact: bowls of rice do not flood in mid-air, but require support to remain stable.

Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.

I have since fallen in love with other poems, but "patty poem" remains my poem.

I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream.

If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream.

If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

In the north of india, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south, where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly.

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

It is the rise and fall of a city.

Joe fell and broke his leg.

Joe fell into a huge crevasse in the ice below.

Last year the foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7- to 12-year-olds said they felt tired during the day, and 15% said they had fallen asleep at school.

Leroy Chiao describes what happens even before you float out of your seat, your inner ear thinks you're falling.

Melissa, his daughter, felt it more than worthwhile to save his music, to which she fell asleep catch night when she was young.

Monsters may appear or the night will fall.

My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out.

One day after school, while exploring the green woods of this magnificent mountain, I almost fell on a set of stairs.

One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation's desire to spend more time at home.

Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.

Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔绝 and inactive.

Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.

She may have fed on the body of a sheep which had also fallen over the edge.

So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or otherwise looking like a fool?

Statistics show that the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.

Suddenly, Paris fell to the ground, "Paris's eye rolled back, " Taylor says.

The athletic department is looking for students to help assist staff during the fall 2016, winter 2016-17 and spring 2017 semesters.

The curves of the buildings perfectly match the rise and fall of hills, forming a unique view.

The dog jody fell down the cliff when she was running after a sheep.

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The path to dawson was covered with thirty feet of wet snow that could fall without warming.

The story came to its turning point when Joe fell ill in 2007.

The total rise in agricultural incomes in rich countries is greater than the fall in poor ones.

Then she ran along the edge of cliff and fell 100 feet, bouncing off a rock into the sea.

Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.

When he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer.

When he was running after his brother, the boy lost his balance and had a bad fall.

When the author saw the basket in the window, she fell in love with it.

While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas —such as free markets, self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.

Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally fell into its deep valley in 1911.

But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency—permanent dependency if you can get it—supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.

After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn't it?

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。