be falling to pieces/bitsBREAKif something is falling to pieces, it is in very bad condition, especially because it is very old 快散架了〔尤因其相当旧〕 SYN be falling apart The house is falling to pieces. 那幢房子都快散架了。
be falling to pieces/bits• The walls were all dirty and the furniture was falling to pieces.• But most of the material was falling to pieces.• There's a difference between consciously colouring a passage and not being able to control a voice that is falling to bits.• They would blaze into prominence just as the foreground planting was falling to pieces.• The Soviet Union is falling to pieces; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out.
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