flip-flops
英 [ˈflɪp flɒps]
美 [ˈflɪp flɑːps]
n. 人字拖鞋; 夹脚趾拖鞋
v. 改变观点; (尤指)转持相反观点,来一个180度的大转弯
flip-flop的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- 人字拖鞋
Flip-flopsare open shoes which are held on your feet by a strap that goes between your toes. - VERB (尤指政客)改变决定,转持相反观点
If you say that someone, especially a politician,flip-flopson a decision, you are critical of them because they change their decision, so that they do or think the opposite.- He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues...
他因为在几个关键问题上临场变卦而备受批评。 - He seemed so sure of his decision, how could he flip-flop so dramatically now?
他当时好像对自己的决定非常肯定,现在怎么会突然有如此巨大的转变呢? - Flip-flopis also a noun.
- The President's flip-flops on taxes made him appear indecisive.
总统在税收问题上的一再反复使他显得优柔寡断。
- He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues...
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用thongs
双语例句
- Do not wear flip-flops or sneakers, unless you are interviewing to be a lead singer for a rock band.
除非你是去面试摇滚乐队主唱,不然面试就别穿人字拖或运动鞋。 - I must have looked as if I was having second thoughts because I was approached by an elderly man who retained a certain dignity despite wearing just flip-flops and a thick white felt hat of the kind favoured by garden gnomes.
我必须装着好像是经过深思熟虑的,因为一名老翁来到了我的面前。老人保持着一定程度的尊严,尽管只他穿着拖鞋和一顶厚厚的白色毡帽,花园中侏儒雕塑常带的那种。 - Twenty years ago it was enough to have duty free, a newsagent and flip-flops, says Neil Saunders of retail analysts Verdict Research.
二十年前,有免税产品、定期刊物塑料人字拖的经销商就已经足够了,英国零售咨询公司(VerdictResearch)尼尔•桑德斯(NeilSaunders)表示。 - They appeared to have little in common: undergraduates in flip-flops and nose rings, graduate students in interview-ready attire.
乍一看,这些学生身上完全没有共同点:本科生踢拉着人字拖,穿着鼻环;研究生则衣着正式如同正准备参加面试。 - On a recent trip to Thailand, I took a morning stroll down to the beach. There was a lady selling two sets of flip-flops.
最近我去了趟泰国。一天早晨,我散步到海滩,看到一个女人在出售两种人字拖。 - Based on the binary mono-stable flip-flops, this paper proposes the design of quaternary mono-stable flip-flops.
在二值单稳态触发器设计的基础上,提出了四值单稳态触发器的设计方案。 - SSI chips are usually basic logic gates and flip-flops.
小型集成电路通常是最基本的逻辑栅门。 - Shelves are laden with traditional Burmese staples such as pickled tea-leaf salad, pungent spices, felt-and-leather flip-flops and ladies 'batik sarongs.
货架上摆满了传统的缅甸产品,如腌茶拌菜、辛辣调味品、毛毡和皮革制成的人字拖鞋,还有女式蜡染桶裙。 - Clock regulate the operation of a digital system by allowing time for new results to be calculated by logic gates and then capturing the results in flip-flops.
时钟信号控制着数字系统的操作,它让逻辑门计算新的结果,然后由触发器存储执行结果。 - Pick something practical over something cute, and be careful when it comes to flip-flops and sandals.
只穿实用的,不穿可爱的,如果要穿凉拖和凉鞋的时候要特别小心。