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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In other words, they were flops.
  换句话说，它们失败了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rpeak, theoretical peak flops.
  flop的理论峰值。