| 单词 | lapse |
| 释义 | lapse (once / 365 pages) 1vn 2v A lapse is a temporary slip, failure or break in continuity. Eating a second helping of cake when you're otherwise doing well on your diet is a lapse. Eating the whole cake in one sitting is a serious lapse in judgment. First used to imply a “slip of the memory,” the noun lapse evolved in the sixteenth century from the Latin lapsus, meaning “a slipping and falling, falling into error.” The connotation of “a moral slip” developed later, and the verb form came into existence even later than that. Behaving badly one day when you're usually on your best behavior is a lapse; Behaving badly again after a short stint being well-mannered means you're lapsing back into nasty old habits. WORD FAMILYlapse: lapsed, lapses, lapsing, relapse+/relapse: relapsed, relapses, relapsing USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Peelle entertains in the novel in a folksy way that might lapse more frequently into hokey in a less confident writer’s hands. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) When they lapsed, there were reports of “gallant troops” who “fought gamely” in a “battle royal” by means of “raids on entrenchments.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Friendships that sustained them for decades lapse when companions and confidants retire or move away or grow ill. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1v drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards Syn|Hyper backslide drop away, drop off, fall away, slip get worse 2v go back to bad behavior Syn|Hyper fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back go back to a previous state 3v pass into a specified state or condition Syn|Hyper pass, sink move go or proceed from one point to another 4v let slip He lapsed his membership Hyper forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime 5v pass by Syn|Hypo|Hyper elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by fell, fly, vanish pass away rapidly advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress move forward, also in the metaphorical sense 6n a failure to maintain a higher state Syn|Hypo|Hyper backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting recidivism habitual relapse into crime failure an act that fails 7n a mistake resulting from inattention Syn|Hyper oversight error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 8n a break or intermission in the occurrence of something 2a lapse of three weeks between letters Hyper break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something v end, at least for a long time The correspondence lapsed Hyper cease, end, finish, stop, terminate have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical |
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