[læps]
lapse
n. 过失,流逝,失效
v. 犯错,堕落,退步

词形变化:

名词:lapser 动词过去式:lapsed 过去分词:lapsed 现在分词:lapsing 第三人称单数:lapses

例句与用法:

  1. I started to eat the peas with my hands, but I don't think anyone noticed my little lapse.
    我开始用手吃豌豆,但我想没有人注意到我的小错误。
  2. After a lapse of several years he came back to see us.
    数年不见之后,他又回来看我们了。

英英解释:

名词 lapse:

  1. a mistake resulting from inattention
  2. 同义词:oversight
  3. a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
  4. a failure to maintain a higher state
  5. 同义词:backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting

动词 lapse:

  1. pass into a specified state or condition
  2. 同义词:sink, pass
  3. end, at least for a long time
  4. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  5. 同义词:backslide
  6. go back to bad behavior
  7. 同义词:relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back
  8. let slip
  9. pass by
  10. 同义词:elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along