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

• We should always remember this important thing, that is half of the people who have embarked on a one hundred mile journey may fall by the wayside.
  我们应该记住这样一条古训：行百里者半九十。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We've seen some potential competitors fall by the wayside.
  我们看到有些潜在竞争对手中途退出。
• 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。