flapping [
flæp]
[计] 抖动
- The curtains were flapping at the open window.
窗帘在敞开的窗户前摆动。 - The sails were flapping gently in the wind.
船帆随风摆动. - The movement or sound of repeated flapping.
啪嗒啪嗒的动作,吧嗒吧嗒声反复拍击的动作或声音
flapping[ noun ]
the motion made by flapping up and down
<noun.event>
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.
- The elephant is demonstrating her inborn cooling equipment by flapping her ears.
- The only sound at midday is a rope flapping against an aluminum flagpole.
- (Bodies rolling over the stage; hands flapping in front of the face; feverish but unfocussed energy; portentous, hollow gesture).
- Two black swans began flapping their wings, driving the joey into deeper water.
- As the mirror reflects the audience too, we are implicated; we are also entertained by a mix of slapstick, philosophy, melodrama and a large flapping eagle symbolising united Germany.
- His armory also includes a rifle fitted with a homemade silencer, a dragnet for sweeping up partridges, and raisins threaded with horsehair, which catch in a pheasant's throat and leave the bird flapping on the ground.
- Instead of his jacket flapping out behind, it is plastered to his back because of the reverse separation principle.
- The orange banners flapping above their heads proclaim: "Vote no to those who turned Turkey into a lake of blood!"