fell

Word family

fell1 /fel/ verb

XXthe past tense of fall fall的过去式

Examples from the Corpus

fell• More trees are being felled annually now than ever before.• Toyota shares fell as much as 40 yen to 2,230 yen.• The rate fell below 3 percent only once, in early 1988.• Following the end of the boom in 1988, prices fell fastest in regions which had shown the highest increases previously.• 63 percent of trees felled in Guatemala are used for fuel.• If she fell off would she be trampled?• The rain fell on empty streets.• His blond hair wasn't short cropped like the others, but was curly and fell over his collar.• My legs gave way and I fell to my knees.• After he left, I fell to pieces.

Related topics: Nature

fell2 noun [countableC usually plural]

DNa mountain or hill in the north of England 〔英格兰北部的〕山，山岗

fell3 verb [transitiveT]

1 CUTto cut down a tree 砍伐〔树木〕

More than 100 trees were felled in just over an hour.

短短一个多小时100多棵树就被砍倒了。

2 HIT/BUMP INTO written to knock someone down with great force 〔用力〕击倒〔某人〕

The goalkeeper was felled by a coin thrown from the crowd.

守门员被观众扔出的一枚硬币击倒。

n Grammar

Fell is often used in the passive.

Examples from the Corpus

fell• Toyota shares fell as much as 40 yen to 2,230 yen.• The rate fell below 3 percent only once, in early 1988.• Following the end of the boom in 1988, prices fell fastest in regions which had shown the highest increases previously.• If she fell off would she be trampled?• The rain fell on empty streets.• His blond hair wasn't short cropped like the others, but was curly and fell over his collar.• My legs gave way and I fell to my knees.• After he left, I fell to pieces.

fell4 adjectiveadj

in one fell swoop (also at one fell swoop British English) doing a lot of things at the same time, using only one action 一下子，一举 SYN in one go

A single company can close a factory, eliminating 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.

单单一个公司就能让一家工厂关闭，一下子74,000个工作岗位就没了。

Examples from the Corpus

in one fell swoop• A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.• Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.• Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.• I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.• The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.• Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?

Examples from the Corpus

fell• Flat fell seam is a neat, strong seam.• In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.• Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.

Origin fell3

Old English fellan; related to → FALL1

fell4

(1200-1300) Old French fel, from Medieval Latin fello; → FELON

fell1 verbfell2 nounfell3 verb →n GRAMMAR1fell4 adjectiveadj

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