flat out
短语竭尽全力, 疲惫
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释义与例句
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A total failure.
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A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
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A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
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A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
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An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
体育 动物学
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To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations.
不及物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 […] .
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Synonym of flatten out (to make flat)
古体 及物
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.
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Complete, total, downright.
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Very busy.
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Lazy, sleeping.
澳大利亚flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing
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At top speed.
习语After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath.
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Without hesitation or reservation, bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright.
习语She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out.
He was flat out furious when his car was stolen.
2006, Tony Rossi, Critique by guest commentator: Dr. Tony Rossi, Stephen Hagan, Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100, page 129, The media (in all its forms) has been known to stoop to even lower levels by flat out abusing non-whites such as the Bulletin's little description of Patrick Bowman reported above and then the Referee's self-congratulatory note that Evans (the Balmain nigger ped) had found gainful employment (at which he was 'very handy' rather than competent or skilled) and had ceased to waste everybody's time with his running.