The house looked as if it was about to fall down.
房子看起来好像就要倒塌似的。
Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.
所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。
The 5-year-old boy was just about to fall asleep when he heard a loud noise from the bathroom he hurried to have a look.
5岁的小男孩正要睡着，这时他听到从浴室传来一声巨响，他急忙去看。
But SocGen denied that its covering operations precipitated the market fall because it kept them to about 10 per cent of trading volumes.
不过，兴业银行否认其平仓行为导致市场下跌，因为它将平仓交易量控制在市场交易总量的10%左右。
For more than three decades, the sales volume of existing single-family homes and newly built houses tended to rise and fall by about the same percentage, as can be seen in the accompanying charts.
从随附的图标中我们可以看到在这超过三十年中，单亲家庭旧房销售量和新建房屋销售量上升和下降的百分比趋于相同。
Under the proposal from Mr. Bartik and Mr. Bishop, the credit in the first year would equal 15.3 percent of the cost of adding an employee. In the second year, it would fall to about 10.2 percent.
根据巴尔提克和比索普的建议，第一年的税收抵免相当于雇佣一个职员成本的15.3%，第二年大约是10.2%。
I tossed about all night, unable to fall asleep.
我彻夜辗转反侧，无法入睡。
Through the summer, and as fall began to deteriorate into winter, I would devote about an hour per day to my little job.
整个夏天过去了，随着秋天开始渐渐退去，冬天来了，每天我要把大约一小时时间用在这个差使上。
I even wrote a novel about how people needed to fall back on antiquated technology to survive the storm when everything else failed.
我甚至写了一本小说——为了在风暴中幸存，当其他一切都灰飞烟灭时，人们需要求助于古老的技术。
The wings of the eagle trademark is about to fall on the letters on the Buick.
而整个商标是一只展翅的雄鹰即将落在别克的英文字母上。
It was then that she glanced down and saw a twisted length of white rope protruding from his pocket, about to fall out.
她向下瞄了一眼，看见一条扭曲的白绳从他的口袋里露出一小截，马上就要掉出来了。
Because they became anxious about being able to fall asleep to the upbeat tune, all of their effort backfired, so that they would lie awake in frustration.
因为他们对自己能否在欢快的乐曲声中入睡感到焦虑，他们竭力想入睡，结果事与愿违，以致无奈地躺着，难以入眠。
Many couples fall victim to thinking "if my spouse really cared about me, they'd be able to figure out what I'm feeling or thinking."
许多伴侣成为这种想法的受害者：如果我的伴侣真正在乎我，他们会弄清楚我的想法或感觉。
Shortly afterwards, a glut of solar panels led to a fall of about a quarter in the price of building a solar farm.
然而不久，由于太阳能电池板供过于求，光伏电站的建设成本下降了四分之一。
And unlike Americans who are often skeptical about teenagers' capacities to fall in love, they assume that even those in their early teens fall in love.
而且与常常对青少年的恋爱能力表示怀疑的美国人不同，他们假定青少年都有爱的能力即使他们陷入爱河时非常年幼。
Then in the fall, news organizations were ordered to stop writing about it.
直到秋天，新闻机构才被责令停止对这件事的争论。
It's all too easy to fall into a yes-man culture, especially when workers feel insecure about their jobs.
公司很容易陷入一种“应声虫式”的企业文化，尤其是当员工感觉工作缺乏安全感的时候。
For example, the time taken to "fall in love" clocks in at about one-fifth of a second, not the six months of romantic dinners and sharing secrets some might expect.
例如，坠入爱河的时间大约持续五分之一秒，这可是持续六个月的浪漫晚餐或分享秘密都可能得不到的感觉。
Old people do fall frequently, of course, and they're right to be concerned about minimizing the hazard.
当然，老年人经常会摔倒，他们对如何减少伤害的关心是正确的。
America waits till Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from Britain and France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself.
美国静候时机，等德国被英法一拳拳打得差不多了，就走了过来，用酒吧里的高脚凳狠狠砸了德国，假装是自己赢下的整场战争。
Both genders can fall into either category - today we're going to chat about the one who does too much.
男女都有可能成为其中任意一种人-今天我们就聊一聊那些想得太多的人。
The simplest way to work out which camp you fall into is to think about whether you grab the chance to have a lie in when you can.
来判定你是哪个阵营的，最简单的办法是思考当你可以不睡的时候你是否抓住机会撒谎。
If profits were about to revert to the mean, share multiples should fall below average.
如果盈利回落到平均水平，其所占份额也应回落到平均水平以下。
It's forecast to fall to about 8% again in a few years.
据预测未来几年内该比率将再度回落至8%左右。
The 25-minute countdown alarm woke me up, and I estimate it took me 5 minutes to fall asleep, so I slept about 20 minutes.
我是照往常一样设的25分钟，考虑到大概花了5分钟才睡着，所以实际上我睡了20分钟。
I was pushed back and about to fall, but the Lord helped me.
你推我，要叫我跌倒，但耶和华帮助了我。
Malaysia seemed about to fall into his lap.
他似乎马上就要傲视马来西亚。
Malaysia seemed about to fall into his lap.
他似乎马上就要傲视马来西亚。
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