2012年10月16日 · A tree fell in the woods, but the logger felled a tree. However, if it's not a tree, or if it's not a person's normal course of work to fall trees, then fell is used to mean "cause …

2021年11月19日 · "Had a fall" does seem to be used mostly of older people. I suppose younger folks fall off or over something, while a frail older person may fall just because their legs are …

2015年1月10日 · If this Ngram is anything to go by, get sick is more common than fall ill by a long way—but until around 1850, fall sick was actually the most common of the lot, while get ill has …

2014年11月17日 · ci siamo innamorati = we are in love, and we fell in love. Although the idiom fall in love does not exist in Italian, it does have the idiom "fall in depression" (to be depressed). mi …

2017年4月24日 · Fall silent, fall sick, fall victim (to), fall asleep, and many other such expressions with "fall" appear all perfectly natural. However, "fall pregnant" can bring up many meanings …

The terms fell to the ground and fell onto the ground could be used for animate or inanimate objects, regardless of their initial location. As the case tipped, the books fell to the ground. …

2021年4月29日 · I didn't answer your questions because I fell asleep last night. ( ref. 1 ) I don't know what Grandpa answered, because I fell asleep. ( ref. 2 ) I got arrested and ticketed …

2022年11月19日 · Those are actually causatives signalled by vowel mutation: lay means to cause to lie, raise means to cause to lie, fell means to cause to fall. See here for causatives with …

2014年3月29日 · You would usually fall off a bicycle, off the wagon or off the radar. You might fall off or from the roof or the top of a mountain. You would usually fall from a tenth-floor balcony, …

2013年11月23日 · It seems to use "fall" to mark the incompleteness of volition. I believe other languages use other means to the same end. Compare with Russian: "влюбиться" and …