英语词汇“to fall apart”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. intransitive. To go in different directions; to move apart; to separate.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions

dealc1000

shedc1000

twin?c1225

departc1290

to-go13..

parta1325

severc1375

disseverc1386

to part companya1400

discontinue1576

to fall apart1599

flya1677

separate1794

dispart1804

split1843

1599 N. Downton in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 200 When my care was most..by the burning asunder of our spritsaile-yard.., we fell apart, with burning of some of our sailes which we had then on boord.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. sig. H2^v Where are my Sons? Nero? and Drusus? We are they be shot at; Let us fall apart .

1865 Times 8 June 10/6 At hotels and in railway cars, at home and in Europe, they naturally fell apart, each section keeping to itself.

1893 L. Villari Here & There in Italy 236 Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile.

1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger iii. 37 The fingers move almost independently,..steepling as they come together in the air, diving and falling apart and dancing on the coffee table for emphasis.

2015 Guardian 3 Nov. 44/2 Occasionally two of them [sc. starlings]..suddenly pop back up, all legs and squabbling beak, then they fall apart and resume the stab-and-prise feeding technique.

2. intransitive.

a. Of a material thing: to break into pieces or disintegrate, esp. from long use or wear. Cf. sense 30a.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)]

burstc1000

breakc1175

rendc1275

cracka1400

perbreak?a1400

crazec1430

twinc1450

frush1489

to fall apart1761

fracture1885

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > undergo separation into constituents [verb (intransitive)] > cease to cohere > disintegrate

flitter1548

to fall apart1761

disintegrate1817

1761 A. Catcott Treat. Deluge ii. 198 Those that are of the same substance throughout (as flinty, alabaster nodules, &c commonly are) when broken, split or fall apart in all kinds of directions.

1839 Heath's Bk. of Beauty 202 The lightest gauzes..fell apart when caught on the keen edge of his blade.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 5/1 They could not afford to make furniture that would fall apart after a mere fifty years.

1980 W. J. Smith Army Brat (1982) i. vi. 60 The..sacks..were wet and falling apart.

2009 E. Gillard Tale of Cheltenham Lady xiii. 89 When his shoes fell apart he would fix them with superglue.

b. Of a system, institution, plan, etc.: to stop functioning; to become ineffective or unsuccessful; to fail, come to nothing.In the phrase things fall apart often with allusion to quot. 1920, with reference to the collapse of society or of the prevailing social order; cf. the centre cannot hold at centre n.¹ and adj. Phrases 2.to fall apart at the seams: see seam n.¹ 1d.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing

forworthc1000

folda1250

quailc1450

fruster?a1513

to come to nothing1523

to give out?1523

to fall to the ground?1526

quealc1530

to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604

intercide1637

to fall to dirt1670

to go off1740

to fall through1770

to fall apart1833

collapse1838

to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872

to blow up1934

to blow out1939

1833 Reg. Deb. Congr. 9 349 What he had supposed to be a stable Government was a crumbling mass, tottering to its ruin, falling apart under its own cumbrous weight.

1856 C. G. Comegys tr. P.-V. Renouard Hist. Med. viii. x. 533 After the death of the celebrated professor of Leyden [sc. Boerhaave], the iatro-mechanical doctrine fell apart.

1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 Things fall apart; the centre can not hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

1958 C. Achebe (title) Things fall apart.

1979 Washington Post 16 Apr. d4/1 Their carefully conceived game plan fell apart.

1996 J. D. Porteous Environmental Aesthetics ii. 73 Things fall apart. But not for the general public, who are still enjoying the trickle down of eighteenth and nineteenth-century elite notions.

2012 N. Hawley Good Father (2013) 16 My marriage to Ellen fell apart.

c. Of a person: (a) (in sporting contexts) to suffer a complete collapse in performance (sometimes also with implications of physical collapse); (b) to lose the ability to cope or function effectively; spec. to have a mental or emotional breakdown.

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1893 Boston Sunday Globe 9 July 3/1 He fell apart in the fourth and fifth innings, when Pittsburg pulled out seven runs.

1914 G. V. Hobart Boobs ii. 32 Georgie was getting along very nicely until one day somebody told him he was clever—then he fell apart.

1939 C. Odets Rocket to Moon ii. 133 Cooper. I'm falling apart by inches. (Suddenly sobbing) Where can I sail away? To where? I'm ashamed to live!

1969 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 16 Feb. (Progress ed.) h10/1 You can tell other girls how to handle men..but when it's your guy—you fall apart like a boarding school passion puppy on her first date!

1998 Boxing Monthly Apr. 45/1 Lewis loses early rounds but unloads heavy punches in fourth and fifth and Wilson falls apart.

2008 C. Cleave Other Hand vii. 259 You can't imagine what would happen to me if I lost Sarah. I'd fall apart. I'd hit the bottle. Bam. It'd be the end of me.

单词	to fall apart
释义	> as lemmas to fall apart to fall apart 1. intransitive. To go in different directions; to move apart; to separate. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions dealc1000 shedc1000 twin?c1225 departc1290 to-go13.. parta1325 severc1375 disseverc1386 to part companya1400 discontinue1576 to fall apart1599 flya1677 separate1794 dispart1804 split1843 1599 N. Downton in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 200 When my care was most..by the burning asunder of our spritsaile-yard.., we fell apart, with burning of some of our sailes which we had then on boord. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. sig. H2^v Where are my Sons? Nero? and Drusus? We are they be shot at; Let us fall apart . View more context for this quotation 1865 Times 8 June 10/6 At hotels and in railway cars, at home and in Europe, they naturally fell apart, each section keeping to itself. 1893 L. Villari Here & There in Italy 236 Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile. 1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger iii. 37 The fingers move almost independently,..steepling as they come together in the air, diving and falling apart and dancing on the coffee table for emphasis. 2015 Guardian 3 Nov. 44/2 Occasionally two of them [sc. starlings]..suddenly pop back up, all legs and squabbling beak, then they fall apart and resume the stab-and-prise feeding technique. 2. intransitive. a. Of a material thing: to break into pieces or disintegrate, esp. from long use or wear. Cf. sense 30a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] burstc1000 breakc1175 rendc1275 cracka1400 perbreak?a1400 crazec1430 twinc1450 frush1489 to fall apart1761 fracture1885 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > undergo separation into constituents [verb (intransitive)] > cease to cohere > disintegrate flitter1548 to fall apart1761 disintegrate1817 1761 A. Catcott Treat. Deluge ii. 198 Those that are of the same substance throughout (as flinty, alabaster nodules, &c commonly are) when broken, split or fall apart in all kinds of directions. 1839 Heath's Bk. of Beauty 202 The lightest gauzes..fell apart when caught on the keen edge of his blade. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 5/1 They could not afford to make furniture that would fall apart after a mere fifty years. 1980 W. J. Smith Army Brat (1982) i. vi. 60 The..sacks..were wet and falling apart. 2009 E. Gillard Tale of Cheltenham Lady xiii. 89 When his shoes fell apart he would fix them with superglue. b. Of a system, institution, plan, etc.: to stop functioning; to become ineffective or unsuccessful; to fail, come to nothing.In the phrase things fall apart often with allusion to quot. 1920, with reference to the collapse of society or of the prevailing social order; cf. the centre cannot hold at centre n.¹ and adj. Phrases 2.to fall apart at the seams: see seam n.¹ 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or come to nothing forworthc1000 folda1250 quailc1450 fruster?a1513 to come to nothing1523 to give out?1523 to fall to the ground?1526 quealc1530 to come to, end in, vanish into, smoke1604 intercide1637 to fall to dirt1670 to go off1740 to fall through1770 to fall apart1833 collapse1838 to run into the sand (also, now less commonly, sands)1872 to blow up1934 to blow out1939 1833 Reg. Deb. Congr. 9 349 What he had supposed to be a stable Government was a crumbling mass, tottering to its ruin, falling apart under its own cumbrous weight. 1856 C. G. Comegys tr. P.-V. Renouard Hist. Med. viii. x. 533 After the death of the celebrated professor of Leyden [sc. Boerhaave], the iatro-mechanical doctrine fell apart. 1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 Things fall apart; the centre can not hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. 1958 C. Achebe (title) Things fall apart. 1979 Washington Post 16 Apr. d4/1 Their carefully conceived game plan fell apart. 1996 J. D. Porteous Environmental Aesthetics ii. 73 Things fall apart. But not for the general public, who are still enjoying the trickle down of eighteenth and nineteenth-century elite notions. 2012 N. Hawley Good Father (2013) 16 My marriage to Ellen fell apart. c. Of a person: (a) (in sporting contexts) to suffer a complete collapse in performance (sometimes also with implications of physical collapse); (b) to lose the ability to cope or function effectively; spec. to have a mental or emotional breakdown. ΚΠ 1893 Boston Sunday Globe 9 July 3/1 He fell apart in the fourth and fifth innings, when Pittsburg pulled out seven runs. 1914 G. V. Hobart Boobs ii. 32 Georgie was getting along very nicely until one day somebody told him he was clever—then he fell apart. 1939 C. Odets Rocket to Moon ii. 133 Cooper. I'm falling apart by inches. (Suddenly sobbing) Where can I sail away? To where? I'm ashamed to live! 1969 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 16 Feb. (Progress ed.) h10/1 You can tell other girls how to handle men..but when it's your guy—you fall apart like a boarding school passion puppy on her first date! 1998 Boxing Monthly Apr. 45/1 Lewis loses early rounds but unloads heavy punches in fourth and fifth and Wilson falls apart. 2008 C. Cleave Other Hand vii. 259 You can't imagine what would happen to me if I lost Sarah. I'd fall apart. I'd hit the bottle. Bam. It'd be the end of me. extracted from fallv. < as lemmas
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