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

• 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 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。
• Lemme jump in right at that point because we know that both adults and kids especially tend to wear these kinds of shoes, Crocs, flip flops, Uggs, whatever.
  我们就来谈谈这一点，因为我们知道成人和孩子都特别喜欢穿这种鞋子，卡骆驰鞋、人字拖、乌戈牌拖鞋，诸如此类。
• 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。
• So, when a book with a large print run flops, publishers end up with an expensive pile of recycling.
  所以当一本印数巨大的书滞销时，出版商只能会花巨资回收。
• 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。
• He has had his share of flops, too.
  但他也有败走麦城的时候。
• 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。
• Your hardware vendor should have benchmark data stating the expected Memory, CPU ( FLOPS), Disk, and Network performance.
  硬件厂商应该有基准测试数据，这些数据说明预期的内存、CPU（FLOPS）、磁盘和网络性能。
• 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。