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单词 lapse into something
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lapse into something

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlapse into something phrasal verb1 lapse into unconsciousness/silence/sleep etcBECOME to go into a quiet or less active state He lapsed into a coma and died two days later. Alison lapsed into puzzled silence.2 START DOING somethingto begin to behave or speak in a way that you did before She lapsed back into her old ways. Occasionally he lapsed into his native German.3 START DOING somethingto get into a worse state or become worse Following his death, the Empire lapsed into chaos. His poetry often lapses into sentimentality. lapse→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuslapse into A mysterious apple laced with morphine causes Snow White to lapse into a coma.Mr. Flannery Is there not a grave danger of the former Soviet Union lapsing into anarchy?Devastating crises may shortly overtake us, leading inevitably to a lapse into barbarism.She had lapsed into gloomy self-absorption, perhaps in reaction to Golding's interrogatory methods.The one thing you can not afford to do is give up and lapse into helpless, complaining Stage 5 mode.He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view, and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions.Again, I lapse into metaphor.He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress, or even, at one point, some pompous Hancockian self-pity.lapse into unconsciousness/silence/sleep etcBut ultimately, words fail them and they lapse into silence.Without my prompting, Jack often lapsed into silence.Soon after that she would lapse into sleep, then unconsciousness, then a state of deep coma.I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw, lapsing into silence, when I was offered any food.From Longman Business Dictionarylapse into something phrasal verb [transitive] to begin to be in a bad stateThe economy lapsed deeper into recession.The stock market lapsed into a broad decline today. lapse→ See Verb table
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