flop vi. (-pp-) 1.鼓翼;撲拍,跳動(dòng)。 2.啪嗒躺下[放下、坐下];〔美俚〕上床。 3.突然轉(zhuǎn)變。 4.徹底失敗。 flop down on one's knees 噗通一聲跪下。 flop into an armchair 驀地坐到扶手椅子里。 vt. 啪啪地翻動(dòng);噗地一聲放下。 flop the pages of a book 啪啪作響地翻書頁(yè)。 adv. 噗地一聲,恰巧。 fall flop into the water 噗通一聲落到水里。 fall flop on one's face 噗地一聲向前撲倒。 n. 1.噗通(聲);啪嗒(聲);落下。 2.大失??;失敗者。 3.〔美俚〕床;躲避處;過夜。
He flopped down on his knees and begged for mercy 他撲通一下跪下來(lái)求饒。
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl 除了倒在那張破舊的小踏上大哭一場(chǎng)之外,顯然沒有別的辦法。
Well , they was handsome and striped , and there warn t no harm in a million of them ; but that never made no difference to aunt sally ; she despised snakes , be the breed what they might , and she couldn t stand them no way you could fix it ; and every time one of them flopped down on her , it didn t make no difference what she was doing , she would just lay that work down and light out 她討厭蛇,不管它是哪一種哪一類。不管你怎么說(shuō),只要是蛇,她就受不了。每逢有一條蛇跌到她身上,不論她正在干著什么,她就一概丟下活兒往外跑。