Flop
[flɒp] or [flɑp]
解释:
(noun.) the act of throwing yourself down; 'he landed on the bed with a great flop'.
(noun.) a complete failure; 'the play was a dismal flop'.
(noun.) someone who is unsuccessful.
(verb.) fall suddenly and abruptly.
(verb.) fall loosely; 'He flopped into a chair'.
(adv.) with a flopping sound; 'he tumbled flop into the mud'.
埃塞雷德编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
(v. t.) To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
(v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
(v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
(n.) Act of flopping.
海丝特编辑
解释:
v.t. to cause to hang down.—v.i. to plump down suddenly: to break down.—n. a fall plump on the ground.—adv. Flop′pily.—n. Flop′piness.—adj. Flop′py.
西莉亚手打
娱乐性解释:
v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
汉尼巴尔手打
例句:
- Or, if they flop, their floppings goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without t'other? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Whereas them medical doctors' wives don't flop--catch 'em at it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- You might as well flop as meditate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Forbid it as we shouldn't all flop (if it was anyways conwenient) to get 'em out o' this here dismal risk! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- I was a great flop at Piacenza. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Just then another officer flopped in behind the boulder. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
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