flag
flag 英 [flæg] 美 [flæɡ]
v. 标记；减弱 n. 旗，旗子
进行时:flagging 过去式:flagged 过去分词:flagged 第三人称单数:flags 名词复数:flags
- A flag is a piece of cloth that represents a country, group, or institution. If you're particularly proud of your Irish heritage, you might fly an Irish flag in your front yard.
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- v. 标记；减弱
- n. 旗，旗子
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1. the Italian flag
意大利国旗
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2. the flag of Italy
意大利国旗
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3. The American flag was flying.
美国国旗飘扬。
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4. All the flags were at half mast .
到处都下半旗致哀。
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5. to swear allegiance to the flag
面对旗帜作效忠宣誓
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6. I've flagged the paragraphs that we need to look at in more detail.
我已用记号标出我们需要更仔细研究的段落。
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7. Her confidence had never flagged.
她的信心从未减弱。
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8. It had been a long day and the children were beginning to flag.
这一天真漫长，孩子们都累得打起蔫来。
- flag (n.1) "cloth ensign," late 15c., now in all modern Germanic languages (German Flagge, Dutch vlag, Danish flag, Swedish flagg, etc.) but apparently first recorded in English, of unknown origin, but likely connected to flag (v.1) or else an independent imitative formation "expressing the notion of something flapping in the wind" [OED]. A guess considered less likely is that it is from flag (n.2) on the notion of being square and flat.
- flag (n.2) "flat stone for paving," c. 1600, ultimately from Old Norse flaga "stone slab," from Proto-Germanic *flago- (from extended form of PIE root *plak- (1) "to be flat"). Earlier in English as "piece cut from turf or sod" (mid-15c.), from Old Norse flag "spot where a piece of turf has been cut out," from flaga.
- flag (n.3) plant growing in moist places, late 14c., "reed, rush," perhaps from Scandinavian (compare Danish flæg "yellow iris") or from Dutch flag; perhaps ultimately connected to flag (v.1) on notion of "fluttering in the breeze."
- flag (v.1) 1540s, "flap about loosely," probably a later variant of Middle English flakken, flacken "to flap, flutter" (late 14c.), which probably is from Old Norse flaka "to flicker, flutter, hang losse," perhaps imitative of something flapping lazily in the wind. Sense of "go limp, droop, become languid" is first recorded 1610s. Related: Flagged; flagging.
- flag (v.2) 1875, "place a flag on or over," from flag (n.1). Meaning "designate as someone who will not be served more liquor," by 1980s, probably from use of flags to signal trains, etc., to halt, which led to a verb meaning "inform by means of signal flags" (1856, American English). Meaning "to mark so as to be easily found" is from 1934 (originally by means of paper tabs on files). Related: Flagged; flagging.
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