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fallHfC:l, $fB:ln [C usually sing]摔倒He had a nasty fall and hurt his back.他很狼狈地摔了一跤，伤了背。She took (= had) a nasty fall in her first race of the season.她在本季的第一次比赛中狼狈地摔了一跤。East and West Germany were reunited after the fall (= destruction) of the Berlin Wall.柏林墙拆倒后，东德西德统一了。The Finance Minister's fall from grace (= loss of popularity) gave the tabloid press great satisfaction.财政部长的声望下降使小报记者非常满意。According to the Bible, the Fall (of Man) was the occasion when Adam and Eve (= the first man and woman) disobeyed the rules of God and were sent away from the garden of Eden.(人的)堕落(据《圣经》，亚当夏娃违反天条被逐出伊甸园)(Am infml) If you take a/the fall for someone, you accept the blame for something they did.替…承担罪责He tried to make me take the fall for something he'd done.他试图让我替他的所作所为承担罪责。(esp. Am slang) A fall guy is a person who is falsely blamed for something that has gone wrong, or for a crime that they have not committed.替罪羊，替死鬼The governor is looking for a fall guy to take the blame for the corruption scandal.州长正为腐败丑闻寻找替罪羊。In his book he claims that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was set up as a fall guy.在他的书中，他声称肯尼迪总统是一个阴谋的受害者，而李·哈维·奥斯瓦德只是替罪羊。[FALL , FALL , FALL 中的 fall]
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