- 1下滑、減少(業績、買氣、人數往下掉;新聞常用「下滑」)
A fall-off is a drop in a level, an amount, or a number — sales, interest, quality, visitors. Newspapers and business people like it: “a sharp fall-off in tourism.” It names the drop itself, not a person hitting the ground. Though actually, in everyday talk people more often say a drop or a fall; fall-off sounds a little like a report. You may also see falloff, one word; the is common in dictionaries. It is not a huge, technical word, but it does sit in writing more than in chat.
fall-off 指某個數量、程度或人數往下掉,像是業績、興趣、品質或遊客人數。新聞和商業人士很愛用這個詞,報紙裡常見的說法是「a sharp fall-off in tourism」,也就是觀光大幅下滑。它指的是下滑這件事本身,不是有人摔下來。
日常口語通常直接說「掉下來」或「下降」,這個字聽起來比較像報告的用語。它也可以寫成一個字、不加連字號,學習字典裡則常見有連字號的寫法。
From the word’s history
A noun from the verb phrase fall off.
由動詞片語 fall off 變成名詞。
組成Deverbal noun from the phrasal verb fall off: fall (go down) + off.
同家族的字
- fall offthe phrasal verb this noun is made from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- falloff
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。