| 正面 | 12198.flop 英 [flɒp]美 [flɑp]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、flap + drop.2. 谐音“飞落扑、飞落噗、飞落拍”。vt. 笨拙地抛下；扑通放下；拍（翅）vi. 失败；扑拍；扑通落下；笨重地摔n. 失败；砰然落下；拍击声adv. 扑通一声；恰巧 例句： 1. Very good use of the term flip - flop, by the way.那一个立场不坚定,经常flip -flop 的人可就不能这么说咯! flop 猛然坐下，失败来自flap拼写变体，飘动，翻动。字母o较字母a声音更重，引申词义猛然坐下，倒地。 flop (v.)c. 1600, "to flap," probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Sense of "fall or drop heavily" is 1836; that of "collapse, fail" is 1919; though the figurative noun sense of "a failure" is recorded from 1893. Related: Flopped; flopping.flop (n.)1823, "act of flopping; any action that produces the sound 'flop;' the sound itself," from flop (v.). Figurative sense of "a failure; that which is a failure" is by 1893, from the notion of a sudden break-down or collapse. Extended form flopperoo attested from 1936. The Fosbury flop high-jumping technique (1968) is so called in reference to U.S. athlete Dick Fosbury (b.1947), who used it to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal." |