flops

英 [flɒps]

美 [flɑːps]

v.  (因疲惫而)猛然坐下，沉重地躺下; (沉重、笨拙或不自主地)落下，移动，悬挂; 砸锅; 完全失败
n.  (电影、戏剧、聚会等)失败，不成功
flop的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 猛然坐下;重重地坐下
  If youflopinto a chair, for example, you sit down suddenly and heavily because you are so tired.
  1. Bunbury flopped down upon the bed and rested his tired feet...
     邦伯里重重地倒在了床上，让他疲惫的双脚休息一下。
  2. She flopped, exhausted, on to a sofa.
     她精疲力竭，一屁股坐在沙发上。
• VERB 凌乱地垂下;猛落下
  If somethingflopsonto something else, it falls there heavily or untidily.
  1. The briefcase flopped onto the desk...
     公文包重重地落在桌上。
  2. His hair flopped over his left eye.
     他的头发凌乱地垂在左眼前。
• N-COUNT 彻底失败;惨败
  If something is aflop, it is completely unsuccessful.
  1. It is the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a flop.
     决定一部电影会走红还是惨败的是大众。
• VERB 彻底失败;惨败
  If somethingflops, it is completely unsuccessful.
  1. The film flopped badly at the box office.
     这部电影票房惨淡。

双语例句

• Well, that cleared that up. Perhaps wisely, press screenings are exempt from any dress code: scruffy journalists are free to ascend the Palais 'steps in flip flops and trainers.
  好了，这下清楚了，媒体放映场没有任何着装要求：着装邋遢的记者们可穿着人字拖与运动鞋随意踏上皇宫广场（Palais）的阶梯。
• He has had his share of flops, too.
  但他也有败走麦城的时候。
• Kop flops Andriy Voronin and Ryan Babel could all leave Liverpool next month as Rafa Benitez looks to raise funds in order to strengthen his stuttering squad.
  利物浦失意之人沃罗宁和巴贝尔可能下个月将全部离开利物浦，贝尼特斯希望出售两人筹集资金加强球队。
• When the hat has been poured full, he flops it over to fill the other side.
  当帽子被灌满后，他又将帽子翻过来再灌。
• He may not like it, but Comolli knows it's the fate of the sporting director to be remembered for his flops.
  他可能并不喜欢，但是科莫里明白体育总监的命运-总会因为那些失败的收购而被人记住。
• Every muddy step would suck the flip flops off your feet!
  每一个泥泞的步骤将吸触发器把你的脚！
• He says suddenly, grabbing at the broken elastic that is supposed to mark the page in my notebook but instead flops around like a misplaced bookmark.
  他突然说道，一手抓住我用来标识笔记本页码的断橡皮筋，这玩意儿看来就像用错了地方的书签。
• The People magazine special issue also looked at some of the fashion flops of2009.
  本期《人物》特刊还回顾了2009年的时尚败笔。
• When it announced in June that both the fields that had entered production were flops, the collapse began.
  今年6月份，该公司在宣布两个投入生产的油田都遭遇失败，崩溃过程就开始了。
• The 6600 filled four cabinets with hardware, a Freon cooling system, and a single CPU capable of 3 million floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS).
  6600使用硬件、Freon冷却系统和能完成每秒浮点操作数为3百万的单个CPU填充了四个机柜。