英汉词典

flounder 基本解释

• vi. 挣扎，折腾；错乱地做事或说话
• n. 挣扎，辗转；比目鱼

flounder 词态变化

flounder 中文词源

来自辅音丛fl, 扑腾，拍打，拟声词，词源同flap, flag, flutter. 引申词义挣扎，折腾。

来自PIE*plat的鼻音扩大形式，平的，词源同flat, platypus. 用来指比目鱼。

flounder 英文词源

flounder (v.)

"struggle awkwardly and impotently," especially when hampered somehow, 1590s, of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of founder (q.v.), influenced by Dutch flodderen "to flop about," or native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion. Figurative use is from 1680s. Related: Floundered; floundering. As a noun, "act of struggling," by 1867.

flounder (n.)

"flatfish," c. 1300, from Anglo-French floundre, Old North French flondre, from Old Norse flydhra, from Proto-Germanic *flunthrjo (cognates: Middle Low German vlundere, Danish flynder, Old Swedish flundra "flatfish"), suffixed and nasalized form of PIE *plat- "to spread" (cognate: Greek platys "flat, wide, broad;" see plaice (n.)).

flounder 英文释义

1. flesh of any of various American and European flatfish

2. any of various European and non-European marine flatfish

flounder 双语例句

1. What a pity that his career was left to flounder.

多么可惜，他的事业深陷困局。

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2. Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with stuffed flounder.

但拔先生的餐盘里盛满了填馅的比目鱼。

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3. The plane had begun to drop and flounder wildly.

飞机已经开始下降,剧烈地颠簸着.

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4. He couldn't swim and just flounder about in the water.

他不会游泳,只是在水里胡乱地划动.

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5. She could only flounder through her song.

她只能慌乱地唱完她的歌.

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flounder 实用场景例句

His abrupt change of subject left her floundering helplessly.

他突然改变话题，使她茫然不知所措。

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At that time the industry was floundering.

那时这个行业举步维艰。

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She was floundering around in the deep end of the swimming pool.

她在游泳池深水区挣扎着。

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What a pity that his career was left to flounder...

多么可惜，他的事业深陷困局。

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The economy was floundering.

经济深陷困境。

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Right now, you've got a president who's floundering, trying to find some way to get his campaign jump-started...

现在，你们的总统正踌躇不前，试图找到某种办法来推动他的竞选活动的开展。

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I know that you're floundering around, trying to grasp at any straw.

我知道你正不知所措，是在病急乱投医。

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Three men were floundering about in the water.

有 3 个人在水中挣扎。

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Sadly they are likely to flounder unless the Americans do more than just nudge them along.

不幸的是,除非美国不再仅仅当个和事佬,否则双方极有可能一事无成.

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We are glad that we live near the sea because we love to eat flounder.

我们非常高兴住在海边,因为我们非常爱吃比目鱼.

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Fish such as cod, flounder, and haddock are caught in this way.

鳕 、 比目鱼 、 黑线鳕等都是用这种方法捕捞的.

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She could only flounder through her song.

她只能慌乱地唱完她的歌.

辞典例句

The next question from counsel left the witness flounder about for an answer.

辩护人提出的下一个问题使证人吱吱晤晤答不上来.

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One man goes over the ice, which bears him, and a score who follow flounder in.

一个人可能在冰上安然通过, 跟在他后面的几十个人却掉进了水底.

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American flounder having a yellowish tail.

有微黄色尾巴的美洲比目鱼.

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His flounder in pain and sufferings dying.

他挣扎着在痛苦中死去.

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I went crabbing this morning and caught a flounder with the crab net.

我今天早晨去抓蟹,结果用蟹网抓到一条比目鱼.

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We have filet of sole , flounder, and baked shad.

我们有上等螺沙鱼排 、 比目鱼, 还有烤鲱鱼.

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Nutritions were the major factors that effect the pigmentation and eye migration in flounder.

营养因素是影响比目鱼形变的主要因素.

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I consider a flounder to be flat.

我以为比目鱼是扁平的.

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Flounder: Yeah, sure , it, it's great. Now let's get out here.

弗朗达: 是啊, 的确, 太好了. 我们走吧.

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That points to one reason the fledgling revival of the vaccine sector may yet flounder: politics.

后者是可保护机体免受一种性传播病毒感染的新型疫苗,而这种病毒可引起子宫颈癌.

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Even the most carefully devised plan will flounder.

甚至于最精心设计的计划也得破产.

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Earlier writers, even before the Civil War, flounder and contradict themselves when discussing the problem.

早期作家, 甚至在南北战争以前, 读到这个问题都要瞠目结舌,前后矛盾.

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The excellence poet gross flounder both ends in idiot and balance.

优秀的诗人总挣扎在白痴与天平的两端.

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Myostatin ( MSTN ) gene was isolated from Japanese flounder ( Paralichthys olivaceus ) by homology cloning strategy and genome walking.

采用同源克隆及基因组步移的方法,分离克隆了牙鲆肌肉生长抑制素 ( MSTN ) 基因.

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Foreign students often flounder in so unstructured an academic environment.

留学生经常在这种松散的学术环境中张徨失措.

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