汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 此起彼落
此起彼落
to rise and fall in succession (idiom) / repeating continuously
Get up here, go down there / Describe one after another
同"此起彼伏"。
luò/là
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

整个十一月份抗议活动此起彼落

Protests continued intermittently throughout November.

这算是一项改进,不过听到响铃后开炮声仍是此起彼落

This was an improvement, but the guns still went off at various times during the sounding of the buzzer.

只有剥开细胞膜,你才能找到模糊的活动迹象,数不清的化学反应此起彼落

Peel back a cell's membrane and you'll find a blur of activity, thousands of chemical reactions taking place all at once.

夜市里的其他人也因为害怕这头横冲直撞的大象而尖叫声此起彼落

Other people in the night market yelled in fear of the rampaging elephant.