It was not very interesting. In fact,some people at the meeting were falling asleep.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."

维吉尔只是在荷马中影射了这点,他描述了通往人群拥挤的地狱的入口,如同“在深秋严寒中无情飘落的叶子“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What's happening is the housing market is dropping, home prices are falling, people are defaulting in record numbers, and there are foreclosures.

房地产市场在衰退,房价在下跌,违约人数破历史纪录,很多贷款买房者取消了赎回权

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the number of people who buy newspapers has been falling for years.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And if I think back to my own childhood again, not that that was the glory days by any means, but I mean people weren't falling over hour after hour from dehydration because they didn't have a water bottle with them.

如果我回忆一下自己的童年,不是说我的童年有多光辉灿烂,而是我想说当时人们也没有因脱水而倒下,而因为他们没有随身携带水壶

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The World Health Organization has warned people with breathing problems to remain indoors as much as possible when the ash is falling.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

That's overselling because we're in a real estate crisis and home prices are falling and that's the kind of thing that makes some people upset.

这分明是过度吹嘘,我们身陷于房地产危机,房价在下降,令人非常沮丧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"It is not where it needs to be. But people are no longer talking about the financial system falling off a cliff.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23