flake
n
small thin layer or piece, esp one that has broken off a surface or object; small loose bit ?quot;∑ㄓ戎复游锾迳习湎吕吹模? 小碎片
Scrape off all the loose flakes of paint before redecorating. 先把翘起来的漆皮刮掉再重新装修.
snowflakes 雪花 * soap-flakes 肥皂片. flake, v
1 [I, Ip] ~ (off/away) come or fall off in flakes 成片状剥落
The paint on the walls is beginning to flake (off). 墙上的漆开始剥落了.
2 [I, Tn] separate (usu food) into flakes (使)(通常为食物)成片: flaked fish 切成片的鱼.
3 (phr v) flake out (infml 口) collapse or fall asleep from exhaustion (因精疲力竭)瘫倒或入睡
When I got home from the airport, I flaked out in the nearest armchair. 我从机场回到家, 便一下瘫倒在离我最近的沙发上了.
You don't keep your word. Why didn't you tell me then? I've been looking forward to it. How can you change your mind at last minute?
你不守信用。为什么那时不告诉我呢?我一直都盼望着它呢。你怎么能在最后时刻改变主意呢?
One day a young man named Kunta Kinte went off into the forest to cut down a tree as he wanted to make a drum.
有一天,一位叫孔塔·肯特的年轻人走进森林中去砍树,因为他想做一个鼓。
At the time of his death, one person praised him as follows: Future generations, it may be, will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth.