flounder
英 ['flaʊndə]
美['flaʊndɚ]
- vi. 挣扎，折腾；错乱地做事或说话
- n. 挣扎，辗转；比目鱼
词态变化
复数: flounders;第三人称单数: flounders;过去式: floundered;过去分词: floundered;现在分词: floundering;
助记提示
1、flounce + blunder.
founder蹒跚,绊倒。
flounder挣扎,踉跄。
blunder踉跄地走。
2. flat => flounder "flatfish" (suffixed and nasalized form).
3. 同源名称的比目鱼：flatfish, plaice, fluke, flounder.
4. perhaps an alteration of founder.
5. perhaps native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion, symbolic fl- frequently beginning words connected with swift or sudden movement. See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip.
6. perhaps a blend of founder and blunder.
7. 谐音“浮乱动”----浮在水上乱动。
8. flo＝flow / float + under => 在水下流动、浮动，不挣扎的话就等着淹死吧。
9. 源自founder 摔倒，沉没→沉在底部，flounder 指还能走，比founder 多个l，看成撑着的木杖。
10. flow + under 脚下是湍急的流水、河水，你挣扎，艰苦地移动，因为脚下的水湍流不息、非常湍急。
founder蹒跚,绊倒。
flounder挣扎,踉跄。
blunder踉跄地走。
2. flat => flounder "flatfish" (suffixed and nasalized form).
3. 同源名称的比目鱼：flatfish, plaice, fluke, flounder.
4. perhaps an alteration of founder.
5. perhaps native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion, symbolic fl- frequently beginning words connected with swift or sudden movement. See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip.
6. perhaps a blend of founder and blunder.
7. 谐音“浮乱动”----浮在水上乱动。
8. flo＝flow / float + under => 在水下流动、浮动，不挣扎的话就等着淹死吧。
9. 源自founder 摔倒，沉没→沉在底部，flounder 指还能走，比founder 多个l，看成撑着的木杖。
10. flow + under 脚下是湍急的流水、河水，你挣扎，艰苦地移动，因为脚下的水湍流不息、非常湍急。
中文词源
flounder 挣扎
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。
flounder 比目鱼来自PIE*plat的鼻音扩大形式，平的，词源同flat, platypus. 用来指比目鱼。
英英释意
- 1. flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- 2. any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
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.)).
考试真题
- The apparent struggles of the floundering (挣扎的）group have what Kapur calls a "hidden efficacy": they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions.
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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。
牛津词典
- At that time the industry was floundering.
- 那时这个行业举步维艰。
牛津词典
- She was floundering around in the deep end of the swimming pool.
- 她在游泳池深水区挣扎着。
牛津词典
- What a pity that his career was left to flounder...
- 多么可惜，他的事业深陷困局。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The economy was floundering.
- 经济深陷困境。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Three men were floundering about in the water.
- 有 3 个人在水中挣扎。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
辞典例句
- American flounder having a yellowish tail.
- 有微黄色尾巴的美洲比目鱼.
期刊摘选
- His flounder in pain and sufferings dying.
- 他挣扎着在痛苦中死去.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- Even the most carefully devised plan will flounder.
- 甚至于最精心设计的计划也得破产.
辞典例句
- 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.
辞典例句
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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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