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

• Both in the US and Shanghai, sandals and flip flops are popular summer footwear for males and females.
  夏季的男女，不管在美国还是在上海，凉鞋和夹趾拖鞋都很流行。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some of her ventures have succeeded her interview show has been one of the past decade's megahits while others, including her Sun TV network, have been huge flops.
  她的冒险有的成功了&她的访谈节目至今仍被人们认为是过去十年的经典，而包括她的阳光卫视网络在内的其他项目却是巨大的失败。
• 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。
• A big part of the answer is that trying to create something truly new means generating lots and lots of ideas, with the understanding that most of them are going to be flops.
  很大程度上是因为：创造某种全新的东西意味着需要想出许许多多的点子，同时明知其中绝大多数都将归于失败。
• 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。
• In other words, they were flops.
  换句话说，它们失败了。
• 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。
• 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。