1. 1備案、後備方案、退路(職場、科技也常直接講 fallback)

    A fallback is the thing you still have if the first plan, supply, or method fails — a spare road, not a fall onto your back. People say a fallback plan, a fallback option, a fallback career. Neutral, very common in offices and tech: if the main system dies, there is a fallback. Though actually, it is not always a full second plan; sometimes it is only “the less good thing we will accept.” As an adjective it sits in front of a noun: fallback position. You may still see a (fall-back); one word is usual now. It comes from fall back, as in an army moving back to a safer line.

core核心畫面

組成From the verb fall back: fall + back. The noun and the adjective both come from that verb.

同家族的字

  • fall backthe verb this noun and adjective come from

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fallbacknoun/ˈfɔːl.bæk/

  • 1

    An act of falling back.

    • A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.
    • The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.
  • 2

    A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.

    • As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.
  • 3

    businessconstructionmanufacturingA reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.

  • 4

    Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

    • Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.

fallbackadj/ˈfɔːl.bæk/

  • 1

    That can be resorted to as a fallback.

    • a fallback plan

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