flounder

flounder¹['flaundə]

• vi.
  • (在水、泥泞或深雪中)挣扎，肢体乱动；踉跄地走(常与about， along， on， through等连用)：

    The child was floundering about in the water.

    那孩子在水中挣扎。

  • (因糊涂而)犯错误；笨拙、错乱地说(或做)：

    The girl was frightened by the audience and floundered through her song.

    这个女孩子被听众吓坏了，因而她唱的歌错误百出。

• n.
  • 挣扎，踉跄行走；笨拙而错乱的行动(或言语)

flounder²['flaundə]

• n.
  • 【鱼类】
  • 川鲽(欧洲川鲽属比目鱼,Platichthys flesus)
  • 除鳎以外的比目鱼总称
  • 任何相似的非欧洲产的比目鱼的统称
• 短语:
  • (as) flat as a flounder 扁而平的；很平很平的
• 变形:

  n.flounders.flounder

• vineland
• analytical balances
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• sunlamps
• life cycles
• urico-
• Eötvös, Baron Roland
• air well
• gamey
• begets
• take to the streets
• well and good
• Kistiakowsky-Fishtine equation
• recognition signal
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• steady on
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• not give a shit (about sb/sth)
• toxicyst
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• colloquially
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• level point
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• break key
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• take steps
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