flounder是什么意思_flounder怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.)).

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;

权威造句

1. What a pity that his career was left to flounder.: 多么可惜，他的事业深陷困局。

2. Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with stuffed flounder.: 但拔先生的餐盘里盛满了填馅的比目鱼。

3. The plane had begun to drop and flounder wildly.: 飞机已经开始下降,剧烈地颠簸着.

4. He couldn"t swim and just flounder about in the water.: 他不会游泳,只是在水里胡乱地划动.

5. She could only flounder through her song.: 她只能慌乱地唱完她的歌.

近反义词

pole flounder 比目鱼,鲽

stone flounder 石鲽

slime flounder 油鲽

starry flounder 箭齿鲽,星斑川鲽...

yellowtail flounder 美洲黄盖鲽

winter flounder 美洲拟鲽

flat as a frying flounder 扁而平的,极平的...

as flat as a flounder 极平的(直挺的)...

flounder about 笨拙地移动(踌躇地说...

as flat as a frying flounder 非常扁平

flat as a flounder 极平的,直挺的...

flounder around 无成效地做某事...

相似短语

great flounder 星斑川鲽

lefteye flounder phr. 牙鲆

rock flounder 双线鲽

lefteyed flounder phr. 牙鲆

summer flounder phr. 鲽鱼

stone flounder 石鲽

slime flounder 油鲽

frog flounder 蛙蝶

grey flounder phr. 灰腹肢鲆

winter flounder 美洲拟鲽

单词分析

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记忆方法

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。

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