downfall

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. countable,uncountable
    — Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
  2. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error. countable,uncountable
    — Orson Scott Card It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
  3. An act of falling down. countable,uncountable
    — a downfall of rain
动词 v.
  1. To fall down; deteriorate; decline. intransitive
    — [...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall" or "fall down."

词形变化

downfalls plural downfal alternative,obsolete downfalls present,singular,third-person downfalling participle,present downfell past downfallen participle,past downfal alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Operation Downfall Willsons Downfall

词源

词源 1
From down- + fall. In this spelling, from 16th century; spelled as two words from 13th century.
词源 2
From down- + fall. In this spelling, from 16th century; spelled as two words from 13th century.
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