| 释义 |       past participle of fall short    1      as in failedto be unsuccessful The movie fell short of its viewers' expectations.       failed     collapsed     flopped     fallen flat     missed     flamed out     washed out     struck out     struggled     stricken out     come up empty     laid an egg     come to grief     fallen on one's face     slumped     folded     slipped     declined     died on the vine     come a cropper     flunked     tanked     cratered     foundered     bombed     gone under     crumbled     floundered     waned     skidded     misfired     miscarried     sunk     crashed     imploded     self-destructed       See More   worked out     gone     come off     delivered     succeeded     panned out     clicked     gone over     cooked     flourished     thrived     prospered     prevailed     won     thriven     triumphed     2      as in fallen flatto go wrong The biography falls short by neglecting to explore the subject's faults as well as his virtues.       fallen flat     come to grief     failed     come a cropper     misfired     miscarried     stalled     flamed out     died     washed out     missed     broken down     struggled     folded     flopped     conked (out)     fizzled     flunked     foundered     crashed     waned     slumped     floundered     slipped     skidded     bust     tanked     busted     bombed     declined          prevailed     succeeded     thriven     flourished     thrived     prospered   |