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掉落

diào luò

2-character word

What 掉落 means

1. to fall down

The characters in 掉落

• 掉diàoto fall; to drop; to lag behind
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out

Example sentences

• 秋天树叶会掉落。
  The leaves fall off the trees in the fall.
• 树叶在十月开始掉落下来。
  Shùyè zài Shíyuè kāishǐ diàoluò xiàlai.
  Leaves begin to fall in October.
• 苹果掉落的地方不会离树干很远。
  Píngguǒ diàoluò de dìfang bù huì lí shùgàn hěn yuǎn.
  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
• 车子若是掉落悬崖他们早就没命了。
  Chēzi ruòshì diàoluò xuányá tāmen zǎojiù méimìng le.
  They would have been killed if the car had gone over the cliff.
• 树上的叶子随着冬天的到来而掉落。
  Shù shàng de yèzi suízhe dōngtiān de dàolái ér diàoluò.
  With the arrival of winter, leaves fall from the trees.
• 当夜晚满月掉落在屋顶上时, 所有的农夫都被吵醒了。
  When the full moon falls down on the roof at night, all the farmers are woken up.