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单词 to fall down dead
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to fall down dead
a. To sink to the ground or to one's knees; to become prostrate; to fall over. Also with adjectival complement, esp. in to fall down dead.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position
fallOE
to fall downc1175
torple?c1225
glidec1275
overthrowc1330
downfallc1350
swaya1400
reversea1470
twine1600
to go down1697
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7348 Þa kingess fellenn dun..To lutenn crist.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Royal) (1934) 49 Te meiden duuelunge feol dun to þe eorðe.
c1300 St. Matthew (Laud) l. 115 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 80 Þis Maide feol doun to is fet and on him ȝeorne gradde.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lxvi. 429 A knyȝt þat touchide suche a worme wiþ his spere..fel doun dede anon.
c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) xxviii. 6 (MED) Þei supposed þat he schulde bolne, ande sodenly falle downe ande dighe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 30 The horse felle downe to the erthe.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ix. 130 About hym fell down deid, and lost the sueit Mony of the hyrd men.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff5 The cowardly wretch fell down, crying for succour.
1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 5. 38 There was..a maid of 16 years of Age, that swooned and fell down at the sight of a Naked Boy.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 167 If thou wilt fall down, And worship me as thy superior Lord. View more context for this quotation
1718 R. Blackmore Coll. Poems Var. Subj. i. 120 He..strove in vain to keep His Eyelids ope, then fell down fast asleep.
1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool I. 54 Mr. Yeast over-reaching himself, fell down, Face fore-most.
1844 J. Backhouse Narr. of Visit 513 One of our after oxen fell down from exhaustion.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 175 He is quite ready to fall down and worship them.
1977 M. Herr Dispatches 134 You could fall down dead so that the medics would have to spend half an hour looking for the hole that killed you.
1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone (1986) iii. 194 He fell down drunk one winter night in the lane behind Devinney's.
2010 J. McGregor Even Dogs (2011) iii. 107 Heather pulling herself to her feet, falling down, getting up again.
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