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单词 to fall from glory
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to fall from glory (prosperity, favour, etc.)
a. intransitive. To descend from a position of high status, wealth, excellence, etc. Frequently with from, as to fall from glory (prosperity, favour, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 421) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 262 Swa ða hean mihta her on worulde hreosað and feallað and to lore weorðað.
OE Lambeth Psalter v. 11 Decidant a cogitationibus suis, secundum multitudinem impietatem [read impietatum] eorum expelle eos : feallan hi uel gehreosan hi fram geþohtum heora æfter mænigfyldnysse arleasnessa heora afyrsa uel utadræf hi.
c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) l. 630 (MED) He þat wole him heinen here..In litel while he shal..falle þerfore swiþe lowe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8992 He fell fra liue and saul hele.
c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 495 Why he fil fro heigh prosperitee.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 143 (MED) Men that fro riches byth falle into pouerte.
?1526 P. Bush Extirpacion of Ignorancy sig. B.iiiv What caused Nabugodonosor, a kyng of gret fame To fall from his regall state, to lede a lyfe brutall.
1590 T. Fenne Frutes sig. Bb4v My sodaine chance..To fall so low, whom Fortune earst so highly did aduance.
1647 S. Danforth Almanack 9 Discontented Bellyes shall Wish that the highest now might fall.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 84 How fall'n! how chang'd From him, who..didst outshine Myriads. View more context for this quotation
1732 London Mag. July 195/2 He saw himself fall from Honour to Ignominy at once.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 65 Sweet Isabel By gradual decay from beauty fell.
1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations viii. 164 We fall below our position.
1948 G. Speaight in M. Batchelder Puppet Theatre Handbk. p. xx ‘Ombres chinoises’ were extremely popular..during the eighteenth century, but later fell from favour.
1990 R. Kray Born Fighter v. 105 He fell so low in life that he became a hobo.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 19 Apr. 5 History is littered with tales of powerful men who fell from glory after their heads were turned by pretty women.
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