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单词 fallen
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Definition of fallen in English:

fallen

verbˈfɔːlən
  • past participle of fall
adjective ˈfɔːlənˈfɔlən
  • 1Theology
    Having sinned.

    〔神学〕堕落的

    fallen human nature

    堕落的人性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Those who fall into this sin are still human beings made in the image of God and yet fallen.
    • It is the Bible - God's word that convinces people of their sin and has power to give them the ability to change their fallen human nature.
    • We are to speak out against evil, error and blasphemy - but only in the context of God's message of salvation to a fallen world.
    • Jesus didn't come to earth to be poor, hated, and sad. He came to reveal the kingdom of God to a fallen people.
    • Now every human mediator, whether Moses or the priests, shares with us in all the deficiencies of fallen human nature.
    • Elshtain considers two generic sins that result from our fallen state: pride and sloth.
    Synonyms
    immoral, loose, promiscuous, unchaste, sinful, depraved, degenerate, impure, sullied, tainted, dishonoured, disgraced, ruined, shamed
    1. 1.1dated (of a woman) regarded as having lost her honour through engaging in a sexual relationship outside marriage.
      〈旧〉(女子)有奸情的;已失身的
      a fallen woman with a chequered past

      一位经历坎坷的失身女子。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not long before, the fallen woman had been held up as the villain of the age, not its victim.
      • Clytemnestra, like Eve, is a fallen woman who must be defeated and killed in order to allow for the regeneration of the male order.
      • One of the images I think that has endured is the image of the fallen woman who's destroyed by love.
      • So, they began to run homes for fallen women, they called it, young girls.
      • Kitty becomes, in her mother's eyes, a fallen woman after being flattered into using her singing talent for a career on the vaudeville stage.
      Synonyms
      immoral, loose, promiscuous, unchaste, sinful, depraved, degenerate, impure, sullied, tainted, dishonoured, disgraced, ruined, shamed
  • 2(of a soldier) killed in battle.

    (士兵)阵亡的;战死沙场的

    fallen heroes

    阵亡英雄。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He ran to help his fallen commanders and was killed on the same spot.
    • World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead.
    • It would also be nice for both national and local radio talk show hosts who broadcast during the 1pm to take time out to salute a fallen soldier.
    • The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
    • Military boots with nametags of fallen soldiers lay strewn across the east entrance to the square.
    Synonyms
    dead, killed, murdered, slain, slaughtered, perished, expired, deceased
    lost, late, lamented, departed, gone
    rare demised

Derivatives

  • fallenness

  • noun ˈfɔːl(ə)nnɪs
    • He sees his desire like any other misplaced desire: It reminds him of our fallenness and that we live each moment by grace.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Corporate powers in their fallenness have an invisible spiritual dimension that can only be met with the weapons of the spirit.
      • The religious conception buried in this is the Christian account of fallenness and is heavily influenced by Kiekegaard.
      • The Reformers' emphasis on the fallenness of the will led to their distrust in reason as a source of information about the spiritual realm, including God.
      • God wills that the church be a people who in the midst of the fallenness of the present show what God is like.

Rhymes

befallen

Definition of fallen in US English:

fallen

ˈfôlənˈfɔlən
  • past participle of fall
adjectiveˈfôlənˈfɔlən
  • 1Theology
    Subject to sin or depravity.

    fallen human nature

    堕落的人性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are to speak out against evil, error and blasphemy - but only in the context of God's message of salvation to a fallen world.
    • Those who fall into this sin are still human beings made in the image of God and yet fallen.
    • Elshtain considers two generic sins that result from our fallen state: pride and sloth.
    • It is the Bible - God's word that convinces people of their sin and has power to give them the ability to change their fallen human nature.
    • Jesus didn't come to earth to be poor, hated, and sad. He came to reveal the kingdom of God to a fallen people.
    • Now every human mediator, whether Moses or the priests, shares with us in all the deficiencies of fallen human nature.
    Synonyms
    immoral, loose, promiscuous, unchaste, sinful, depraved, degenerate, impure, sullied, tainted, dishonoured, disgraced, ruined, shamed
    1. 1.1dated (of a woman) regarded as having lost her honor through engaging in a sexual relationship outside marriage.
      〈旧〉(女子)有奸情的;已失身的
      a fallen woman with a checkered past

      一位经历坎坷的失身女子。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not long before, the fallen woman had been held up as the villain of the age, not its victim.
      • Kitty becomes, in her mother's eyes, a fallen woman after being flattered into using her singing talent for a career on the vaudeville stage.
      • Clytemnestra, like Eve, is a fallen woman who must be defeated and killed in order to allow for the regeneration of the male order.
      • One of the images I think that has endured is the image of the fallen woman who's destroyed by love.
      • So, they began to run homes for fallen women, they called it, young girls.
      Synonyms
      immoral, loose, promiscuous, unchaste, sinful, depraved, degenerate, impure, sullied, tainted, dishonoured, disgraced, ruined, shamed
  • 2(of a soldier) killed in battle.

    (士兵)阵亡的;战死沙场的

    fallen heroes

    阵亡英雄。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead.
    • It would also be nice for both national and local radio talk show hosts who broadcast during the 1pm to take time out to salute a fallen soldier.
    • Military boots with nametags of fallen soldiers lay strewn across the east entrance to the square.
    • The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
    • He ran to help his fallen commanders and was killed on the same spot.
    Synonyms
    dead, killed, murdered, slain, slaughtered, perished, expired, deceased
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