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

• 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。
• That's why there are six big studios: Smaller ventures that lack a reservoir of films have trouble surviving flops.
  这就是为何现在有六大电影公司：缺少电影库存的小公司是无法在危机中存活下来的。
• In other words, they were flops.
  换句话说，它们失败了。
• Making it cheaper to develop a broader range of models means being less vulnerable to flops.
  以更低廉的成本开发更广泛的产品，意味着降低了企业遭受重挫的可能性。
• 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。
• He was dressed in casual clothes in court Tuesday, including flip flops on his feet, the same clothes he was wearing when arrested.
  星期二，他在法庭穿着休闲服装，包括当他被捕时脚上所穿的一双人字拖鞋。
• Some quipped that someone should forward the memo to all the foreigners arriving in sweat pants and flip flops.
  一些人嘲弄说，应该把这个小册子转发给所有穿着运动裤和人字拖来北京的外国人。
• 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。
• He can't swim much, he just flops about in the water.
  他不大会游泳，只能在水中乱扑打。
• Marry is out in the pasture gathering cow flops for her garden.
  玛丽正在牧场上拾牛粪，作花园肥料用。