lapse
lapse 英 [læps] 美 [læps]
n. 小错;过失;行为失检 v. (时间)流逝;(合同)终止;背弃(宗教信仰)
进行时:lapsing 过去式:lapsed 过去分词:lapsed 第三人称单数:lapses 名词复数:lapses
- A lapse is a temporary slip, failure or break in continuity. Eating a second helping of cake when you're otherwise doing well on your diet is a lapse. Eating the whole cake in one sitting is a serious lapse in judgment.
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- n. 小错;过失;行为失检
- v. (时间)流逝;(合同)终止;背弃(宗教信仰)
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1. Remind me to renew the driver's license.It will lapse next month.
提醒我更换驾驶执照,它下个月就失效了。
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2. The subscription would lapse after, say, 24 hours, or that could be passed in as a parameter.
订阅将在一段时间后失效,比方说,24小时,或将其作为一个参数传入。
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3. Also, the time lapse nature of part of the video causes clouds to appear to jump about and fade in an unfamiliar fashion.
而且,视频中有一部分的时间流逝从本质上导致了那些云看起来像是在跳跃着,以一种陌生的方式出现。
- lapse (n.) mid-15c., "elapsing of time, expiration;" also "temporary forfeiture of a legal right" due to some failure or non-action by the holder, from Middle French laps "lapse," from Latin lapsus "a slipping and falling, a landslide; flight (of time); falling into error," from labi "to glide, slip, slide, sink, fall; decline, go to ruin," which is of unknown etymology.
- lapse (v.) early 15c., to go by, pass (of time), from lapse (n.) and from Latin lapsare "to lose one's footing, slip, slide," from stem of labi "to slip, glide, fall." Meaning "fail in duty or faith" is from 1630s. Meaning "become void, revert due to some failure or non-action by the holder" is from 1726. Related: Lapsed; lapses; lapsing.
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