flapped v. 拍打;摆动(flap的过去式)
- The heron flapped slowly off across the lake.
那白鹭振翅向湖对岸慢慢飞去. - Has he ever screamed to the crowd like that? Has he ever flapped his gold jersey like that?
他曾经像这样对观众嘶吼过吗?他曾经像这样撕扯过他的紫金球衣吗? - They could not talk, the old sail flapped so furiously, even if the other noises would have allowed them.
他们讲不出话来,因为那块旧帆篷噼噼啪啪响得太厉害,这么大的噪音实在没法交谈。
Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flapping}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E.
flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.]
1. To beat with a flap; to strike.
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope.
2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the
wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
{To flap in the mouth}, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright.