词汇 | wayside |
释义 | wayside noun uk /ˈweɪ.saɪd/ us /ˈweɪ.saɪd/ fall by the wayside If someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity, and if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it: 中途退出;半途而废 So why does one company survive a recession while its competitors fall by the wayside?为什么有些公司能在萧条中生存,而其竞争者却纷纷落马呢? Falling and dropping ass collapse collapse under someone's/something's weight collapse/fall in a heapidiom cropper crumple drop like fliesidiom drop off faceplant fly knock knock someone over let goidiom mic drop nosedive overbalance parachutist shower topple trip (someone) up Examples of waysidewayside The whole system of categorising music falls by the wayside when we look at these magazines. It's a piece that's sort of fallen by the wayside, as did quite a lot of them from that time. These triangles icons are used to code the status of the wayside signals in the actual display. For example, verbal labels may remain constant in the input while gestures fall to the wayside after facilitating infants' initial entry into symbolic communication. So: uncompetitive industries will fall by the wayside, magazines that are not viable will fold, and prices will adjust to market level. But it does mean that, for some reason, such fashions fell by the wayside in the process of cultural selection. Consequently, the quality of medical care is eroded, while caring and respect fall by the wayside. He could not name the flowers by the wayside; no one had ever thought of teaching him that. In a context in which old restrictions on gender representation were falling by the wayside, the commercialisation of the youthful female body offered new opportunities and elicited unfamiliar desires. An a priori principle like the principle of sufficient reason falls by the wayside if it stands in the way of accepting a promising new science of the atom. This book brings together the best in both theory and practice to a field that, given the current political climate, can either flourish or fall by the wayside. However, busy treatment teams become accustomed to the status quo, and formulary renovation often falls by the wayside, with newer medications and emerging evidence eluding incorporation. Thus, the fact that all contribute to an institution that limits the impact of illness is a sign that unlucky members of the community are not left by the wayside. This assumption is unlikely to fall by the wayside, even in the unlikely (or distant) event that corrective input proves to be a necessary component of language acquisition. Lesser languages could fall by the wayside. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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