fall flat

英 [fɔːl flæt]

美 [fɔːl flæt]

摔倒;跌倒

英英释义

verb

• fail utterly
  1. The project foundered
  Synonym:fall throughfounderflop

双语例句

• If he tries to tackle that kind of market before he's made a thorough study. He'll fall flat on his face.
  如果他事先不透彻研究市场，就想处理那种市场问题，那他必败无疑。
• If they won't cooperate, our plan will fall flat.
  如果他们不肯合作我们的计划就会落空。
• But his entreaties on global rebalancing fall flat in China.
  但他有关全球重新寻找平衡的恳求，在中国算是白说了。
• Every day brings new product launches, and for one reason or another, some catch on with customers while many others fall flat.
  每天都会有人发布新产品，而出于某种原因，一些产品大受追捧，更多的则一败涂地，籍籍无名。
• His ideas met with guffaws from the old lags of the industry, who have seen many fancy schemes for electronic medical records fall flat.
  他的观点遭到了老牌工业的嘲笑，他们恰巧看到许多奇思构想的电子医疗项目衰败。
• Well, the word "flop" means to fall down flat and make a noise like when you drop a rug or a large book on the floor.
  我懂了。这个词的意思就是形容很重的东西掉在地上的声音。这个词。
• Then when this scenario repeats, as it will on an increasingly frequent basis, their explanations will fall flat.
  那么当这些情节事实上越来越频繁地发生重复时，他们的解释将达不到预期的效果。
• Like Mr Gates before him, Mr Jobs could fall flat on his face.
  就像在他之前的盖茨一样，乔布斯可能会遭遇惨败。
• This business is going to fall flat.
  这笔交易要完全失败了。
• The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat.
  程序设计师经常会碰到图片问题，即使是专业的设计者在遇到这个问题时，也会犯错误。