flip
flip 英 [flɪp] 美 [flɪp]
vt. 掷；快速翻转； 按（开关） n. 空翻，轻抛
进行时:flipping 过去式:flipped 过去分词:flipped 第三人称单数:flips 名词复数:flips
- To flip is to turn or toss upside down, like flipping a mattress over. People flip out when excited, and a flip remark is disrespectful.
- 请先登录
- vt. 掷；快速翻转； 按（开关）
- n. 空翻，轻抛
-
1. The plane flipped and crashed.
飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
-
2. She felt her heart flip .
她感到心潮澎湃。
-
3. He flipped the lid open and looked inside the case.
他猛然开盖，朝箱里看。
-
4. to flip a switch
按开关
-
5. She reached over and flipped off the light.
她伸过手去关掉了灯。
-
6. They flipped a coin to decide who would get the ticket.
他们掷币决定谁得这张票。
-
7. He flipped the keys onto the desk.
他把钥匙轻抛到桌上。
-
8. The car hit a tree and flipped over.
汽车撞上一棵树，翻倒了。
-
9. The whole thing was decided on the flip of a coin.
整个事情都是由掷币决定的。
-
10. The handstand was followed by a back flip.
先倒立，接着后空翻。
-
11. Her heart did a flip.
她心里咯噔了一下子。
-
12. I had a quick flip through the report while I was waiting.
我等待时迅速浏览了一下报告。
-
13. Her heart did a flip.
她心里咯噔了一下子。
- flip (adj.) "talkative and disrespectfully smart," see flippant.
- flip (n.1) 1690s, "a flick, a snap;" see flip (v.). In reference to an overturning of the body, probably short for flip-flap (see flip-flop) "somersault in which the performer throws himself over on hands and feet alternately," 1670s, originally a move in (male) dancing.
- flip (n.2) sailors' hot drink usually containing beer, brandy and sugar, 1690s, from flip (v.); so called from notion of it being "whipped up" or beaten.
- flip (v.) 1590s "to fillip, to toss with the thumb," imitative, or perhaps a thinned form of flap, or else a contraction of fillip (q.v.), which also is held to be imitative. Meaning "toss as though with the thumb" is from 1610s. Meaning "to flip a coin" (to decide something) is by 1879. Sense of "get excited" is first recorded 1950; flip (one's) lid "lose one's head, go wild" is from 1949, American English; variant flip (one's) wig attested by 1952, but the image turns up earlier in popular record reviews ["Talking Boogie. Not quite as wig-flipping as reverse side--but a wig-flipper" Billboard, Sept. 17, 1949]. Related: Flipped. Flipping (adj.) as euphemism for fucking is British slang first recorded 1911 in D.H. Lawrence. Flip side (of a gramophone record) is by 1949.
- 请先登录
0 个回复