| 单词 | fall behind (somebody/something) |
| 释义 | fall behind (somebody/something)fall behind (somebody/something) phrasal verbphr v a) SLOWto go more slowly than other people so that they gradually move further ahead of you 落在（某人/某物的）后面 His mother was chatting and didn’t notice that he had fallen behind. 他妈妈在聊天，没注意到他已经落到后面了。 She hurt her ankle and had fallen behind the others. 她伤了脚踝，落在了别人的后面。 b) EFFECTIVEto become less successful than other people, companies, countries etc 落后（于某人/某物） After her time in hospital, Jenny’s parents are afraid she has fallen behind educationally. 珍妮住了一段时间医院，父母担心她学习跟不上。 Companies that are not market-driven risk falling behind the competition. 不以市场为导向的公司有可能在竞争中落败。 c) LATEto fail to finish a piece of work or pay someone money that you owe them at the right time 不能按时完成（工作）；拖欠（还款） with/on After losing his job, he fell behind with his mortgage payments. 失业后，他拖欠了抵押贷款的偿还。 The project has fallen behind schedule. 这项工程已经误期了。 Examples from the Corpus fall behind • As before, they again fall behind early, but this time they battle back.• The level of provisions could begin to drop next year as fewer families fall behind in their home loan payments.• It seems that they are still working on how to use their time and some students are falling behind in their work.• Certain other students simply fell behind so much that they could not catch up later on.• In recent years, teachers' salaries have fallen behind those of other non-manual workers.• They had fallen behind to a crazy goal after 33 minutes. fallen behind schedule• Home project had fallen behind schedule.• Countless advanced communications projects have fallen behind schedule after being heavily promoted.• It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails. → fall behind (somebody/something) at fall1(PHRASAL VERB) |
| 随便看 |
英汉双解词典包含283110条英汉词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。