| 单词 | fallout |
| 释义 | fallout (once / 4100 pages) 1n 2n Fallout is the cloud of radioactive material that falls from the sky after a nuclear blast. Fear of the effects of fallout is just one reason some people are nervous about nuclear energy. Nuclear fallout settles on the ground and in the atmosphere after a nuclear bomb explodes or a reaction occurs at a damaged nuclear power plant. The dangers of this kind of fallout are enormous, including immediate death and long-term illness caused by breathing and eating the radioactive dust. Another kind of fallout is more figurative — it's any kind of negative effect or result, like the fallout from telling your family you're getting an enormous tattoo. WORD FAMILYfallout: fallouts USAGE EXAMPLESI left your own emotional fallout, from a lifetime of association with your father, for last because I hope you’ll tend to it first. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “I think there was just destined to be some serious fallout when Don left,” longtime Washington broadcaster Bob Rondeau said. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) The Minnesota songwriter documents the fallout from a divorce with a set of poignant folk-pop songs that are tuneful and raw. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) 1 n the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion 2Syn|Hyper radioactive dust dust fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air n any adverse and unwanted secondary effect a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal Syn|Hyper side effect consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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