英和和英

動詞

fall apart (三人称単数 現在形 falls apart, 現在分詞 falling apart, 過去形 fell apart, 過去分詞 fallen apart) (intransitive)

1. To disintegrate, to break into pieces.

   My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.

   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France‎^[1]:

     England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.

   • 2023 September 9, “Network News: Robeston train troubles”, in Rail, page 6:

     It investigated extensive damage caused by a Robeston-Westerleigh train after the brake system under one of its wagons fell apart on October 30 2017.

2. (idiomatic) To be emotionally in crisis.

   As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.

同意語

• (break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state): break, break apart, break up, come apart, come apart at the seams, come undone, disintegrate, fall to bits, fall to pieces
• (be emotionally in crisis): crack up

派生語

• fally-aparty