lapsing

英 [ˈlæpsɪŋ]

美 [ˈlæpsɪŋ]

v.  失效; 期满终止; 衰退; 衰弱; (逐渐)消失，结束; 背弃，放弃(宗教信仰)
lapse的现在分词

现在分词：lapsing　

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 闪失；过失；失检
  Alapseis a moment or instance of bad behaviour by someone who usually behaves well.
  1. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.
     星期五那天他的表现既不得体，又有失尊严。如此失态非常少有。
• N-COUNT （一时的）疏忽，大意，开小差
  Alapse ofsomething such as concentration or judgment is a temporary lack of that thing, which can often cause you to make a mistake.
  1. I had a little lapse of concentration in the middle of the race...
     我在比赛中途一时走神。
  2. He was a genius and because of it you could accept lapses of taste...
     由于他是天才，所以品位上偶有差池大家也不会介意。
  3. The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.
     这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
• VERB 陷入，进入（某种安静或静止状态）
  If youlapse intoa quiet or inactive state, you stop talking or being active.
  1. She muttered something unintelligible and lapsed into silence...
     她不知嘟囔了几句什么后就不再开口。
  2. Doris Brown closed her eyes and lapsed into sleep.
     多丽丝·布朗闭上眼睛，安然入睡。
• VERB （通常指短暂地）进入，陷入（某种说话或行事方式）
  If someonelapses intoa particular way of speaking, or behaving, they start speaking or behaving in that way, usually for a short period.
  1. She lapsed into a little girl voice to deliver a nursery rhyme...
     她改用童声唱起童谣来。
  2. Teenagers occasionally find it all too much to cope with and lapse into bad behaviour.
     青少年偶尔会因感到压力太大无所适从而做出不良行为。
  3. Lapseis also a noun.
     
  4. Her lapse into German didn't seem peculiar. After all, it was her native tongue.
     她冒出几句德语并不足为奇。毕竟那是她的母语。
• N-SING （时间的）间隔
  Alapse oftime is a period that is long enough for a situation to change or for people to have a different opinion about it.
  1. ...the restoration of diplomatic relations after a lapse of 24 years...
     时隔24年后外交关系的恢复
  2. There is usually a time lapse between receipt of new information and its publication.
     新信息的接收与发布之间通常会间隔一段时间。
• VERB （时间）流逝，消逝，推移
  If a period of timelapses, it passes.
  1. New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.
     新的产品和生产工序要经过一段相当长的时间后才能向发展中国家转移。
• VERB 结束；终止
  If a situation or legal contractlapses, it is allowed to end rather than being continued, renewed, or extended.
  1. Her membership of the Labour Party has lapsed...
     她已不再是工党党员。
  2. Ford allowed the name and trademark to lapse during the Eighties.
     福特在20世纪80年代废止了该名称和商标。
• VERB 停止信教；背弃信仰；脱离宗教关系
  If a member of a particular religionlapses, they stop believing in it or stop following its rules and practices.
  1. I lapsed in my 20s, returned to it, then lapsed again, while writing the life of historical Jesus...
     我20多岁时曾经停止信教，后来一度又信，再后来撰写历史上耶稣的生平故事时又再脱教。
  2. She calls herself a lapsed Catholic.
     她称自己已不再信仰天主教。

英英释义

noun

• a failure to maintain a higher state
  Synonym:backslidinglapserelapserelapsingreversionreverting

双语例句

• However, seen from its primary tendency, legal thought still behaves as the flexible exertion of law on the premise of no lapsing from the nomocracy principle.
  但从法律思维的主流倾向看，法律思维仍然表现为在不背离法治原则的前提下对法律灵活运用。
• The time lapsing artificial ageing of six membrane materials with acrylate, PVDF and PTFE top coatings are investigated by a practical environmental simulation.
  本文采用对实际环境进行模拟的人工加速老化方法对表面涂有丙烯酸酯、PVDF（聚偏氟烯）以及PTFE的六种不同的膜材料的老化性能进行了研究。
• This can take a bit more effort, but once the chains are broken, it seems like the effort required to prevent lapsing back to old behaviors should be minimal.
  这需要付出努力，但是一旦枷锁被打破，就不再需要我们付出很大的努力来防止重新回归到旧的行为了。
• Budget closure: lapsing of authority to incur approved budgetary expenses.
  预算关闭期：指停止使用已批准的预算支出权力的限期。
• Since the Opium War, China had been lapsing into a semi-colony of the imperialists and had no international status.
  自鸦片战争以来，中国逐渐沦为帝国主义的半殖民地，毫无国际地位可言。
• The environmental simulation consists of two series of treatment with high time lapsing effect.
  环境模拟的方法由两套具有高度加速老化效果的处理系统组成。
• I ask that in light of the lapsing of the stabilization plan with the IMF.
  特别是考虑到，国际货币基金组织（IMF）的稳定计划即将终止。
• Materials are the pillar and the important foundation of national and society developments. It is always used in certain environment and its function is descended until to damage by environmental in process, needing the solution lapsing and protective problem.
  材料是国家建设和社会发展的支柱和重要基础，材料总是在一定的环境中使用，材料在使用过程中受环境的作用性能下降，直至损坏变质，需解决失效与保护的问题。
• According to Mr Fernald, this was a result of the lapsing of temporary growth dividends from the 1990s IT revolution.
  弗纳尔德表示，这是上世纪90年代信息技术革命带来的暂时性增长红利消失所导致的。
• With the lapsing of our old activity of inventing and enacting adventures, Joe Weller and I diverted our wild imaginings on several occasions to a jocular vein.
  我和乔·韦勒已经不再虚构和实施冒险故事，而代之以制造场合性的笑料来消遣时光。