flat
n. 公寓; 平地; 平面; 瘪的轮胎
v. 住公寓
adj. 平坦的,扁平的; 水平的; 浅的,瘪的; 断然的; 停滞的; 平淡的; 无泡的; 没电的; 降半音的
adv. 平躺地; 断然地; 比标准音低地
A flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor and part of a larger building. A flat usually includes a kitchen and bathroom.
Sara lives with her husband and children in a flat in central London...
萨拉和丈夫还有孩子们住在伦敦中心城区的一间公寓里。
It started a fire in a block of flats...
大火是从一幢公寓大楼烧起的。
Something that is flat is level, smooth, or even, rather than sloping, curved, or uneven.
Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry...
只要表面平整、坚固而且干燥,瓷砖就可以贴住。
After a moment his right hand moved across the cloth, smoothing it flat...
过了一会儿,他用右手把布抹平。
Flat means horizontal and not upright.
Two men near him threw themselves flat...
他身旁的两个男人直挺挺趴倒在地上。
As heartburn is usually worse when you're lying down in bed, you should avoid lying flat.
通常躺着的时候胃灼热会更加厉害,所以应当避免平卧。
A flat object is not very tall or deep in relation to its length and width.
Ellen is walking down the drive with a square flat box balanced on one hand.
埃伦正一手托着一个方形的扁盒子沿私人车道走着。
Flat land is level, with no high hills or other raised parts.
To the north lie the flat and fertile farmlands of the Solway plain...
北边是索尔韦平原平坦而肥沃的农田。
The landscape became wider, flatter and very scenic...
地势变得更开阔、更平整,风景十分优美。
A low flat area of uncultivated land, especially an area where the ground is soft and wet, can be referred to as flats or a flat .
The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
盐碱地和泥滩吸引了大量水鸟。
You can refer to one of the broad flat surfaces of an object as the flat of that object.
He slammed the counter with the flat of his hand.
他用手掌使劲拍打着柜台。
...eight cloves of garlic crushed with the flat of a knife.
用刀面拍碎的 8 粒蒜瓣
Flat shoes have no heels or very low heels.
People wear slacks, sweaters, flat shoes, and all manner of casual attire for travel.
人们穿着宽松的长裤、运动衫、平底鞋和各式适合旅行的休闲服装。
A flat tyre, ball, or balloon does not have enough air in it.
A flat is a tyre that does not have enough air in it.
Then, after I finally got back on the highway, I developed a flat.
后来,我终于回到公路上后,车胎又瘪了。
A drink that is flat is no longer fizzy.
Could this really stop the champagne from going flat?
这真的能让香槟不走气吗?
A flat battery has lost some or all of its electrical charge.
His car alarm had been going off for two days and, as a result, the battery was flat.
他的汽车报警器连着响了两天,结果电池耗没电了。
If you have flat feet, the arches of your feet are too low.
The condition of flat feet runs in families.
平足会在家族中遗传。
A flat denial or refusal is definite and firm, and is unlikely to be changed.
The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement...
外交部已经坚决否认参与过此事。
She is likely to give you a flat refusal.
她很可能会断然拒绝你。
If you say that something happened, for example, in ten seconds flat or ten minutes flat, you are emphasizing that it happened surprisingly quickly and only took ten seconds or ten minutes.
You're sitting behind an engine that'll move you from 0 to 60mph in six seconds flat...
您面前的引擎,可以在短短 6 秒钟内速度从 0 提升至每小时 60 英里。
I had it all explained to me in two minutes flat.
短短两分钟内,我让人把一切都给我解释了一下。
A flat rate, price, or percentage is one that is fixed and which applies in every situation.
Fees are charged at a flat rate, rather than on a percentage basis...
费用按固定价格收取,而不是基于百分比收取。
Sometimes there's a flat fee for carrying out a particular task...
有时执行某项特定的任务有固定的价码。
If trade or business is flat, it is slow and inactive, rather than busy and improving or increasing.
During the first eight months of this year, sales of big pickups were up 14% while car sales stayed flat...
今年前 8 个月,大型货车的销售量增加了 14%,而小轿车的销售仍然不景气。
For the country overall, house prices have remained flat.
从全国来说,房屋价格没有多大变化。
If you describe something as flat, you mean that it is dull and not exciting or interesting.
The past few days have seemed comparatively flat and empty...
过去这几天似乎比较平淡无聊。
It is a long time since a party leader delivered such a dreadfully flat speech as he did yesterday.
很久没有政党领导人像他昨天那样作如此枯燥无聊的演讲了。
You use flat to describe someone's voice when they are saying something without expressing any emotion.
'Whatever you say,' he said in a deadly flat voice. 'I'll sit here and wait.'...
“不管你说什么,我都会坐在这里等。”他用一种极为平淡的声音说道。
Her voice was flat, with no question or hope in it.
她的声音平淡,听不出疑虑也感觉不到希望。
Flat is used after a letter representing a musical note to show that the note should be played or sung half a tone lower than the note which otherwise matches that letter. Flat is often represented by the symbol after the letter.
...Schubert's B flat Piano Trio (Opus 99).
舒伯特降 B 调钢琴三重奏(第 99 号作品)
If someone sings flat or if a musical instrument is flat, their singing or the instrument is slightly lower in pitch than it should be.
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
至少可以说,她的音域不够宽,而且令人不舒服的是,她总是音高偏低。
If you say that something is as flat as a pancake, you are emphasizing that it is completely flat.
My home state of Illinois is flat as a pancake...
我的故乡伊利诺伊州一马平川。
If you fall flat on your face, you fall over.
A man walked in off the street and fell flat on his face, unconscious.
一个男人从街上走进来,趴倒在地,不省人事。
If an event or attempt falls flat or falls flat on its face, it is unsuccessful.
Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat...
利兹本想开个玩笑,结果却没有达到效果。
If it wasn't for the main actress, Ellen Barkin, the plot would have fallen flat on its face.
如果不是女主角埃伦·巴尔金的话,整个情节会非常失败。
If you say that you are flat broke, you mean that you have no money at all.
Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.
两年后,他一贫如洗,靠失业救济金生活。
If you do something flat out, you do it as fast or as hard as you can.
Everyone is working flat out to try to trap those responsible...
每个人都在全力以赴,设法捉住那些罪魁祸首。
They hurtled across the line in a flat-out sprint.
他们拼命冲刺,越过终点线。
You use flat out to emphasize that something is completely the case.
That allegation is a flat-out lie...
那项指控是彻头彻尾的谎言。
They say the industry is flat out lying about the effects of deregulation.
他们说业界所谓的放宽管制已经取得了成效的说法纯属谎言。
On the flat means on level ground.
He had angina and was unable to walk for more than 200 yards on the flat.
他患有心绞痛,在平地上最多能走 200 码。
1. a level tract of land
2. a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
4. freight car without permanent sides or roof
5. a deflated pneumatic tire
6. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
7. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
1. having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;
2. having no depth or thickness
3. not modified or restricted by reservations;
4. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
5. lacking contrast or shading between tones
6. lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone;
7. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
8. lacking taste or flavor or tang;
9. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting;
10. having lost effervescence;
11. not increasing as the amount taxed increases
12. not made with leavening;
13. parallel to the ground;
14. without pleats
15. lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth;
16. (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
17. not reflecting light; not glossy;
18. lacking variety in shading;
1. at full length;
2. with flat sails;
3. below the proper pitch;
4. against a flat surface;
5. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly;
6. wholly or completely;
even, flat, level, smooth
这些形容词都有"平的,平坦的"之意。
fall flat
完全失败,完全未达到预期效果
fall flat on one's face
向前跌倒
(as) flat as a pancake
flat out
尽可能快;尽最大努力,竭尽全力
(非正式,主北美)毅然地,果断地;毫无保留地;毫不含糊地
(尤指熟睡或疲惫时)四肢摊开
on the flat
在平地上
that's flat
(非正式)就这么简单(用来表示作了决定而且不会改弦更张)
go flatting
(澳/新西兰)离家租公寓住
The river slows on the flat bottom.
河水在平坦的河床上减慢了流速.
The worker hammered the iron flat.
工人把铁锤平了.
When Mary broke off the engagement, John seemed to be in a flat spin.
玛丽解除婚姻后, 约翰似乎精神失常了.
When I found that all my money had been stolen, I went into a flat spin.
当我发现全部的钱被偷走时, 我惊慌失措.
A flat tire put my bicycle out of commision.
车胎跑气使我的自行车无法使用.