| 词组 | fall apart |
| 释义 | fall apart 1. be falling apart to be in very bad condition, and need repairing: ▪ I'm not going in your car - it's falling apart! ▪ The school was in a very old building, which looked like it was falling apart. 2. fall apart if something falls apart, it breaks into pieces, especially because it is old or badly made: ▪ The book fell apart in my hands as soon as I picked it up. ▪ I'd only had the shoes a couple of months before they fell apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑come apart, disintegrate formal 3. fall apart if an organization, system, relationship etc falls apart, it is not working successfully any more and often fails completely: ▪ Diana's marriage to Charles was falling apart. ▪ By the end of 1934, the Independent Labour Party was falling apart. ▪ In countries like Hungary and Poland, the old communist system had largely fallen apart. be falling apart at the seams (=used to emphasize that something is in very bad condition) ▪ When Thatcher took over, the British economy was falling apart at the seams. ■ SIMILAR TO: collapse 4. fall apart if someone falls apart, they have problems which affect them mentally or emotionally and they cannot think or behave normally: ▪ My father had just died and everything was going wrong - in the end I just fell apart. ▪ She's so tense about her job - if she goes on like this, she'll fall apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑crack up informal 5. sb's world/life falls apart if someone's world or life falls apart, something bad happens which changes their life, causing them serious problems and making them upset: ▪ When Jim's wife left him, his world just fell apart. ▪ Saxton's life fell apart when he failed a drugs' test two weeks before the Olympic Games. |
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