fall flat

He fall flat on his face walking downstairs.

他下楼的时候脸被摔了个结结实实。

M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.

M:是的，她的脊椎摔伤了，医生告诉她得平躺在床上休息一个月才能好。

Sometimes his ideas pan out and sometimes they fall flat.

有时他的想法很出彩，有时却很失败。

The product will fall flat if it's footballed around too much.

如果滥做广告,产品反而会卖不出去.

This business is going to fall flat.

这笔交易要完全失败了.

His ideas met with guffaws from the old lags of the industry, who have seen many fancy schemes for electronic medical records fall flat.

他的观点遭到了老牌工业的嘲笑，他们恰巧看到许多奇思构想的电子医疗项目衰败。

Did Apple deliver, or fall flat?

你们认为苹果是不负众望，还是未达到预期效果呢？

I won't let you fall flat on your face.

我会帮助你，不会让你失败的。

But his entreaties on global rebalancing fall flat in China.

但他有关全球重新寻找平衡的恳求，在中国算是白说了。

Stepping forward to receive my award what do I do but fall flat on my face.

我走上前去领奖,却没料到摔趴在地上.

Every day brings new product launches, and for one reason or another, some catch on with customers while many others fall flat.

每天都会有人发布新产品，而出于某种原因，一些产品大受追捧，更多的则一败涂地，籍籍无名。

Adrian: No way. Every time I run up to kick it you pull the ball away and I fall flat on my face.

阿德里恩：不行，每次当我助跑要去踢它时，你却把球拿走，而我就往前跌倒。

Often they fall flat on their face.

他们往往会以失败收场。

He clearly tries, but in speeches the delivery of his passion lines can be tinny and laughter lines can fall flat.

杜克显然在努力表现出魅力，但他在讲话中表达激情的句子有些单调枯燥，笑点也并不好笑。

Sharp rises increase the chances that some banks fall flat over their interest rate risk.

利率大幅上升加大了某些银行因利率风险而倒闭的可能性.

Tax cuts are on investors'wish lists, but benefits handed directly to consumers could fall flat.

减税是投资者的愿望之一, 但减税可能达不到直接促进消费的效果.

Our proposals were likely to fall flat.

我们的建议可能要失败.

If they won't offer the money, our project will fall flat.

如果他们不出钱, 我们的项目就会落空.

Like Mr Gates before him, Mr Jobs could fall flat on his face.

就像在他之前的盖茨一样，乔布斯可能会遭遇惨败。

The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat.

程序设计师经常会碰到图片问题，即使是专业的设计者在遇到这个问题时，也会犯错误。