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

• In the office we have discovered that while many candidates look promising, some fall by the wayside once they start corresponding. Those who can't spell or who become over-familiar at an early stage get weeded out.
  在办公室里，我们发现，虽然许多候选人看起来很有希望，不过一开始通信，有些人就出局了：那些错字连篇或一开始就热情过头的人会被排除掉。
• When this happens, you lose your feeling of accomplishment and you fall by the wayside.
  如果这样，你会失去成就感，半途而废。
• So many would-be slimmers fail to stay the course and fall by the wayside.
  有很多想身材苗条的人没能坚持到底而中途败下阵来。
• 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。
• But the reality is that, because of its high-risk nature, for every success story there are hundreds who will, perforce, fall by the wayside.
  事实上，就其本质而言，网络创业原有高度风险，每有一家公司成功，或许便有数百家惨遭淘汰，落败道旁。
• We must care for the weak who will otherwise fall by the wayside
  我们要关心那些弱者，不然他们会因失败而放弃努力的
• Many will fall by the wayside.
  很多公司都会因失败而放弃。
• 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。
• 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。
• They let prevention fall by the wayside.
  它们使预防工作半途而废。