fall to pieces

基本解釋

Likewise, some tents last for a long time whereas others fall to pieces rapidly.
同樣地，有些帳篷可以延續(xù)很長時間，而其它的帳篷很快坍塌成碎片。
"It teeters from 'Wow, I'm a rock star' to 'OK, I may fall to pieces,'" she says.
“我的感覺在‘哈，我是一個搖滾明星’和‘我可能會累成碎片’中搖擺不定，”她如是說。
The finding helps explain why some people keep a cool head in even the most difficult of times, while others fall to pieces.
這項發(fā)現可以幫助我們解釋在面對困難時為什么有些人即使是最困難的時刻也可以保持冷靜而有些人卻心力憔悴。

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And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.
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