| 单词 | lapse |
| 释义 | lapse —lapser, n. /laps/, n. , v. , lapsed, lapsing. n. 1. an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice. 2. a slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure: a lapse of memory. 3. an interval or passage of time; elapsed period: a lapse of ten minutes before the program resumed. 4. a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue. 5. a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree; descent; regression: a lapse into savagery. 6. the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees. 7. a falling into disuse. 8. Insurance. discontinuance of coverage resulting from nonpayment of a premium; termination of a policy. 9. Law. the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it or through failure of some contingency. 10. Meteorol. See lapse rate. 11. Archaic. a gentle, downward flow, as of water. v.i. 12. to fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level: Toward the end of the book the author lapsed into bad prose. 13. to come to an end; stop: We let our subscription to that magazine lapse. 14. to fall, slip, or sink; subside: to lapse into silence. 15. to fall into disuse: The custom lapsed after a period of time. 16. to deviate or abandon principles, beliefs, etc.: to lapse into heresy. 17. to fall spiritually, as an apostate: to lapse from grace. 18. to pass away, as time; elapse. 19. Law. to become void, as a legacy to someone who dies before the testator. 20. to cease being in force; terminate: Your insurance policy will lapse after 30 days. [1520-30; < L lapsus an error, slipping, failing, equiv. to lab(i) to slide, slip, fall, make a mistake + -sus, for -tus suffix of v. action] |
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