free fall

noun

1. （人或物的）自由下落
   the movement of an object or a person falling through the air without engine power or a parachute
   1. a free fall display
      自由下落表演
2. （价值）突降不止
   a sudden drop in the value of sth that cannot be stopped
   1. Share prices have gone into free fall.
      股价猛跌不止。

1. N-VAR (价值或价格的)直线下落，暴跌
   If the value or price of something goes into free fall, it starts to fall uncontrollably.
   1. Sterling went into free fall...
      英镑暴跌。
   2. The price did a free fall.
      价格一落千丈。
2. (降落伞张开前的)自由下落
   In parachuting, free fall is the part of the jump before the parachute opens.

1. Sterling went into free fall
   英镑暴跌。
2. The price did a free fall.
   价格一落千丈。
3. China is not in free fall.
   中国经济没有出现自由落体式的下滑。
4. But as long as there continues to be a free fall, GM is at grave risk.
   但是只要经济情况继续直线下降，通用公司就面临严重风险。
5. In the glacial realm of sociological change, that amounts to a free fall.
   从社会学变化的宏观领域来说，这是一个非常明显的下降。
6. It means this tennis ball* while it is in free fall, it has no weight.
   再比如说这个网球。，自由落体过程中它没有重量。
7. These arresters should lock automatically against the anchorage line, restricting free fall of the user.
   这些防止装置应自动锁住锚线，限制使用者的自由下降。
8. Other markets are still in free fall.
   其他市场房价也正处于自由落体运动中。
9. Imports did not rise, even after a 40 per cent revaluation against the dollar, demonstrating that exchange-rate solutions will fail when demand is in a global free fall.
   然而，即使在银元兑美元升值了40%之后，进口仍然没有出现增长。这表明，当全球需求直线下落时，汇率解决方案将失效。
10. Maybe the sonar was damaged in the free fall.
    或许声纳在掉落时坏了。
11. At this time, my heart was doing the movement familiar to you and me the free fall.
    在这个时候，我的心在做运动的熟悉，你和我的自由降落。
12. Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.
    在重力的作用下自由落体。
13. If the west faces inevitable relative decline, Europe looks to be in free fall.
    如果说西方世界面对着不可避免的相对衰落，那么欧洲似乎是在直线滑落。
14. Because if I make m1 zero, m2 goes into free fall.
    因为当m1=0时，m2相当于自由落体运动。
15. Free fall lifeboat system mooring the rowboat at the dock;
    自由降落救生艇系统将划艇系在码头上；
16. The free fall facility of the drop tower of NMLC is introduced.
    介绍了国家微重力实验室（NMLC）落塔自由落体实验装置。
17. The US would avoid the risk of a free fall of the dollar.
    美国将避免美元“自由落体”的风险。
18. The rebound helped Japanese companies recover some of the value they have lost as stocks went into free fall after the recent series of disasters.
    这一反弹帮助日本企业挽回了一些它们在股市上失去的市值。日本最近一系列的灾难导致股票价格自由落体式地下跌。
19. It is no longer the Dark Continent in continual economic free fall, wallowing in debt, poverty and disease.
    它也不再是经济像自由落体那样下滑的黑暗大陆，不再沉溺于债务、贫穷和疾病。
20. This is the plane while it is in free fall.
    这就是在自由落体的飞机。
21. The stock price is falling like a free fall.
    股价像自由落体一般坠下。
22. Some bats slept through free fall and dropped like rocks;
    有些蝙蝠从飞机上投下来，沉眠不醒，像石头般直摔下去；
23. Free fall lifeboat system
    自由降落救生艇系统
24. Daydreaming allows the process to go into free fall.
    而幻想会让这个过程自由进行下去。
25. They say there should be no tax increases at all while the economy is in free fall.
    他们说，在经济下滑无法控制时，不应该增加税率。
26. But the prospect of fiscal free fall has yet to alter most Americans'behavior.
    但是这般自由下坠的经济前景还没有改变多数美国人的行为习惯。
27. But Beijing would not allow the renminbi to go into free fall, he adds, since that would enrage US Congress and risk retaliation.
    但他补充说，北京方面不会允许人民币汇率直线下落，因为那会激怒美国国会，引发报复风险。
28. Similarly, on the pure logic analysis of the Archimedes Principle and Free Fall Law, we could get an inevitable conclusion directly, which could help us better understand the laws of physics.
    同样对阿基米德原理，自由落体问题等进行纯逻辑的分析，非常直接地得出了必然的结论，并且可以帮助我们更好地理解物理规律。
29. Like astronauts brought up in gravity, our reflexes are poorly suited for free fall.
    就像在重力环境下成长起来的宇航员一样，我们的本能反应不适合自由坠落。
30. With global demand seemingly in free fall, both the US and China see increased foreign direct investment as a possible cushion.
    随着全球需求看似一落千丈，美国和中国都把扩大外国直接投资（fdi）视为可能的缓冲。

noun

1. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
   1. a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
   2. there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
   3. a dip in prices
   4. when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall

   Synonym:    dropdipfall

2. the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field