flat out

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A total failure. US,dated
  2. A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
    — His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully^([sic]) until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs."
  3. A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  4. A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
    — The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs.
  5. An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
    — The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.
动词 v.
  1. To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations. intransitive
    — 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413, I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] .
  2. Synonym of flatten out (to make flat) archaic,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out. not-comparable
    — So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ran flat out of black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port.
  2. Complete, total, downright. not-comparable
    — Avoid Flat-Out Opposites The slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll^([sic]) and Hyde.
  3. Very busy. not-comparable
    — I know we are all flat out. That is the way it is. We are flat out, and it becomes a way of life.
  4. Lazy, sleeping. Australia,not-comparable
    — flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing
副词 adv.
  1. At top speed. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath.
  2. Without hesitation or reservation, bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out.

词形变化

flat-out alternative flat-out alternative flat outs plural flat-out alternative flats out present,singular,third-person flatting out participle,present flatted out participle,past flatted out past flat-out alternative
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