| 单词 | falling short |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalling short b. More generally with following adjective or adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to uses of fall v. (cf. sense 45a(b)), as falling asleep, falling short, falling sick, etc. ΚΠ c1525 Henry VIII Let. in Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) (modernized text) 174 You being also so suddenly (with the falling sick of your servants) afraid, and troubled. 1635 W. Guild in Funerals P. Forbes 83 It is called in Scripture, onelie a falling asleep, a giving vp the Ghost, a gathering to our fathers, [etc.]. 1642 J. Goodwin Imputatio Fidei ii. v. 156 Israels miscarriage and falling short in this kind. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Febricitation,..a falling sick of an Ague or Feaver. 1741 J. Wilford Memorials & Characters 52 As to the Manner of her Death..it was so quiet that it might even in that Sense be most properly term'd a falling asleep. 1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas p. viii Certain fallings-short from the standard of comfort and of character in older communities are inevitable. 1936 Discovery Oct. 308/2 ‘My predecessors,’ he said, ‘have spoken of the shortcomings of the active world—to me they are but the fallings short of science.’ 1961 I. Khan Jumbie Bird iv. 52 Of sins as punishable as falling asleep, there was gazing into space, day-dreaming, and finally yawning, the most sinful of all. 2003 A. W. Astell Joan of Arc & Sacrificial Authorship v. 169 Woolf speaks of the falling silent of a different sort of voice, the voice of her inspiration as a writer. 2014 Times of India (Nexis) 3 June I realized the reason for my falling ill was failing to have enough water. falling short (d) Hence falling short, a failure in attainment, a deficiency. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > deficiency, lack, or shortage wanec888 trokingc1175 want?c1225 defaultc1300 trokea1325 fault1340 lacking1377 scarcityc1380 wantingc1390 absencea1398 bresta1400 defect?a1425 lack?c1425 defailing1502 mank?a1513 inlaik1562 defection1576 inlaiking1595 vacuity1601 deficience1605 lossa1616 failancea1627 deficiency1634 shortness1669 falling shorta1680 miss1689 wantage1756 shortage1868 a1680 T. Goodwin Govt. Churches of Christ vi. xii, in Wks. (1697) IV. 402 His Disciples..had..great fallings short. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ix. 401 Shine out for two, Aurora, and fulfil My falling-short that must be! < as lemmas |
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