fall by the wayside

英 [fɔːl baɪ ðə ˈweɪsaɪd]

美 [fɔːl baɪ ðə ˈweɪsaɪd]

中途停止;半路夭折

英英释义

verb

• give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope
  1. In the second round, the challenger gave up
  Synonym:drop outgive updrop by the waysidethrow inthrow in the towelquitchuck up the sponge

双语例句

• Most people fall by the wayside.
  大多数人半途而废。
• Now even the whole paycheck moniker may fall by the wayside.
  如今，“全薪光”的绰号可能要成为过去了。
• Albert Gore Jr. apparently ready to fall by the wayside? he can focus on Jesse Jackson one-on-one.
  在那儿－戈尔参议员已经差不多被淘汰了－他可以集中精力一对一与杰克逊周旋。
• Google can no longer afford to let promising ideas fall by the wayside.
  谷歌可不能再浪费好点子了。
• Cloud computing is simply accelerating the focus on the requirement for runtime SOA governance, and sooner or later design time will fall by the wayside.
  云计算单纯地加速了对运行时SOA治理的关注，而设计时治理迟早会退出历史舞台。
• Amateurs fall by the wayside when the going gets tough
  业余爱好者遇到困难时往往半途而废。
• Neither of these physicians is suggesting that preventive care, which typically comes to patients in the form of screening tests or lifestyle advice, should fall by the wayside.
  这项新的研究发现：没有一个内科医师认为那些对于患者以甄别检查、生活方式忠告方式的预防性保健应该废弃一边。
• For others, though, maybe the pajama trend is born of allowing some aspects of our lives to fall by the wayside in favor of other, more important things, than our appearance.
  不过对其他人来说，或许睡衣潮流的诞生是因为我们生活的一些方面已经靠边站了，让位于比我们的外表更重要的东西。
• They let prevention fall by the wayside.
  它们使预防工作半途而废。
• Many will fall by the wayside.
  很多公司都会因失败而放弃。