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fall-out

/fawl-out/US // ˈfɔlˌaʊt //UK // (ˈfɔːlˌaʊt) //

落差,落叶,落下,落花

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions .Compare rainout.
    • : the particles themselves.Compare rainout.
    • : an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product: the psychological fallout of being obese.
    • : effects; results: emotional fallout from a divorce.

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Examples

  • The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index has dropped 10% from its peak in late March as investors responded to the pandemic and efforts by central bank and government officials to contain the economic fallout.

  • The change comes only weeks after Chairman Simon Thompson said Jacques had the board’s backing to handle the fallout from the company’s destruction of the ancient sites.

  • Until recently, the risks associated with failed trade talks had been in the background, overshadowed by the economic fallout of the coronavirus.

  • Over the past six months, central banks and governments have unlocked financial floodgates to deal with the economic fallout of covid-19.

  • Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the coronavirus crisis will get worse before it gets better and that the fallout will test Germany’s finances for months if not years to come.

  • Perhaps the worst fallout from all this is that when we are gripped by fear, we usually make terrible decisions.

  • But in solidly Democratic Oregon, the political fallout from this revelation is likely to be limited.

  • But the fallout from the Panetta book will be significant over time.

  • Mark Fuller, on the other hand, is unlikely to see any long-term professional fallout.

  • The fallout of this loss of trust has had an enormous impact on the outbreak.

  • After Test Mike, the implications of fallout obviously were global.

  • The expedition made significant observations of the role of plankton in the biological utilization of ocean fallout.

  • The treaty was, among other things, a declaration against worldwide fallout.

  • Amid such changes there was arising, too, a wider apprehension concerning the possible effects of fallout.

  • The word “fallout” was coined to describe the deposition on the earth of radioactive debris from nuclear explosions.