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nounPlural flags flaɡflæɡ 1A piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities. 旗，旗帜；国旗；彩旗 美国国旗。 Example sentencesExamples - Obviously corporates will be allowed to fly their banners and flags to mark off their piece of the battleground.
- If a student wears the national flag of his own country he will be suspended or expelled from school.
- So he reluctantly changed it for one I had made for his birthday which shows the British and Phillipine flags conjoined, their poles placed together as a symbol of the friendship between our two countries.
- Across the country, flags over public buildings and royal residences were flying at half-mast.
- The flag flew from every public building, from every municipal flagpole, and from every structure of consequence in the land.
- Scotland's parliament may be a year behind schedule and massively overspent, but that will not get in the way of creating a new flag for the troubled institution.
- We used the Olympic flag to march in the opening ceremony.
- Following a death, white banners, flags, and other decorations are put up according to the status of the deceased.
- As I said, even in my day they used to have the flags just outside the public schools, and presumably still do.
- The flag is a symbol of indigenous and campesino movements.
- It's the lead article in the music section, spread out over a full page with no adverts, with little national flags for each country, and even the bookies' odds for each song mentioned.
- All public buildings display the flag, as do many private homes.
- He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
- A few years earlier, the magazine had sponsored a largely successful campaign to sell American flags to public schools.
- A three-judge panel entered the courtroom and sat beneath its only decorations, a Peruvian flag and a crucifix.
- Prior to the mayor's edict, it was expected that the banner would fly on the same pole as the US flag along with a banner commemorating American prisoners of war.
- Near the bottom, he wiped his brow before tying the other end of the rope to an American flag.
- I have seen no reluctance on behalf of the Scottish and Welsh parts of this country to fly their national flags on the designated patron saint's day.
- Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
- Attempts to supplant the earlier symbolism, including the flag and motto, were popularly rejected.
Synonyms banner, standard, ensign, pennant, pennon, banderole, streamer, jack bunting colours symbol, emblem, representation, figure, image British pendant Nautical burgee in ancient Rome vexillum rare gonfalon, guidon, labarum - 1.1 Used in reference to one's home country or its system of beliefs and values.
he pledged allegiance to the flag Example sentencesExamples - When I was young, I was puzzled as to why we would pledge allegiance to a flag.
- Do we want to live separately under separate flags only occasionally mixing with each other in ordinary every day events?
- This small shareholder asked if he and the board members would be willing to rise and pledge allegiance to the flag?
- The press is a bit misinformed: it's a young country of immigrants, of Poles and Germans who happen to live there and pledge allegiance to the flag.
- They think it's inappropriate to mix government and God in the way it now exists in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
- One reason why oaths are more common in America may be that American children are brought up to swear their allegiance to the flag, so the concept of affirming their beliefs is less alien than to British students.
- For example he will be competing in his third Olympics under three different flags.
- The deeply rooted victim syndrome has been manipulated over the past year by the mainstream media in order to rally the public around the flag.
- 1.2 The ensign carried by a flagship as an emblem of an admiral's rank.
（旗舰上象征舰队首领等级的）旗舰旗 Hawke first hoisted his flag at Spithead 霍克在斯彼特海德海峡首次升起了自己的旗舰旗。 Example sentencesExamples - He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers.
- With Admiral Togo flying his flag in the British-built battleship Mikasa, a strong naval force moved into position.
- The early ensigns were striped flags, some in the green and white of the Tudor Royal Livery colours, some red and white, some in other livery colours.
- The title went to Her Majesty, and with it yet another flag - the Admiralty flag of a gold anchor on red.
- Admiral Jellicoe flew his flag in the battleship HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
- Leading the Japanese Fleet was Admiral Heihachiro Togo, who flew his flag in the battleship Mikasa.
2A small piece of cloth attached at one edge to a pole and used as a marker or signal in various sports. 体育比赛中（用作标志的）小旗；信号旗 信号旗举起来了。 Example sentencesExamples - The striker had spent most of his evening failing to dodge the offside flag.
- They screamed for an offside flag which never came.
- The guy holding the flag pulled it down signaling goal.
- He looked a certain scorer at the flag, to ensure the Halifax outfit were nilled.
- He is released on the right and Saudi fans start to get excited but the linesman quickly raises his flag to signal off-side.
- He is played through one-on-one, unaware the linesman has his flag up for offside.
- Did you practice waving the green flag as the honorary starter for the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
- If the team representative does not display the green flag to signal the start of a qualification attempt, the car will not be charged with an attempt and must return to the pit lane.
- When the home keeper gathered the ball on the edge of his area the assistant referee vigorously waved his flag, signalling that his hands were outside.
- Davison made a blinding reaction save from Abbey after 79 minutes but the flag was up for offside against the striker.
- In the ensuing confusion, he managed to win the race following a wrong flag signal by a panicked marshal.
- He was just about to put the ball into the empty net when a flag was raised indicating handball.
- No, just an offside flag - which looked mighty harsh on the replay.
- He had his flag up for offside, although nobody could have been interfering with play to any significant degree!
- The forward tried to rectify matters by turning and drilling the ball over the line, but by then the flag had been raised, penalising him for straying offside.
- The Paraguayans race off to celebrate what would have been the 2,000th goal in a World Cup finals… until the flag goes up a good 30 seconds late.
- This flag indicates that the racing event is over or concluded.
- 2.1 A drawing or symbol resembling a flag, used as a marker.
（用作标志的）旗状装置（或符号、图画） golf courses are indicated by a numbered flag on the map 高尔夫球道在地图上用带编号的旗形符标示。 Example sentencesExamples - She had taken a world map, stuck in flags where she had already been, and pinned in all the places she wanted to go.
- My stats package thoughtfully puts a national flag next to each country domain as it pops up on the server so it was easy to spot one I did not recognize.
- 2.2 A small paper badge given to people who donate to a charity appeal in the street.
（在街上慈善捐赠后获得的）小纸徽 Example sentencesExamples - My own tests have been conducted at supermarkets while I have been selling flags for a charity.
- 2.3 A mechanism that can be raised to indicate that a taxi is for hire.
出租车“空车”牌，出租车空车显示器
3Computing
A variable used to indicate a particular property of the data in a record. 〔计算机〕（表示储存数据特征的）标记，特征位 Example sentencesExamples - During event registration, specific flags indicate whether a handler is to be executed inside a process.
- When reading a modified record one should check the attribute flag to see if this record needs to be deleted.
- Thereby, the flag is recorded on the effective data area.
- Don't ever delete a record - mark them for deletion with a flag, and then archive them periodically.
- This will let you watch the execution of a program to determine any gaps, and is especially useful if used in conjunction with a debug flag.
verbflags, flagging, flagged flaɡflæɡ [with object]1Mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way. （用特殊符号或标签）标出（某事项）以引起注意 the spellcheck program flags any words that are not in its dictionary Example sentencesExamples - It is able to authenticate the caller's identity, or to flag possible impostors, with a high degree of accuracy.
- Additionally, the strategy mapping instruction required flagging the missing element in the problem with a question mark.
- It wasn't very good anyway, being based, it seems, on an American kindergarten dictionary and thus any word over 2 syllables or seven letters was automatically flagged.
- Using software to prepare bids heads off mistakes because the program takes care of calculations and will flag missed entries.
- The program flags possible tax deductions and includes a flexible spending calculator.
- Another very nice feature are the flags that allow you to flag emails that need attention so that the days of marking emails as ‘unread’ are gone too.
- Both programs allow you to see what it was that caused them to flag a particular piece of email as spam.
- The system also flags up problem pupils more quickly.
- We used the spell checker to flag misspellings or nonstandard abbreviations or military/vendor terminology.
- Use folders or labels to flag messages for follow-up action.
- One of the recommendations was that deaths should be monitored by flagging the health records of residents.
- For instance, the program will flag quotations and other matching text that have been adequately sourced.
- This comes in handy if you want to ensure that potentially offensive words are flagged as misspellings.
- The only thing it lets me do with a button is spell check, and the only word it's ever flagged for me as misspelled was not misspelled.
- A match was found and the program flagged the info and forwarded it to the Early Warning sub-system.
- The danger tags employees were supposed to use to flag valves, indicating their open status, were rarely used.
Synonyms indicate, identify, pick out, point out mark, mark out, label, tab, tag, tick - 1.1 Draw attention to.
〈喻〉引起对…的注意 cancer was flagged up as a priority area for research Example sentencesExamples - The US economy is a concern, as are the complications of the bond markets and pension deficits (which were flagged up in this column last month) along with rising fuel costs.
- He has been flagged for three holding penalties this year.
- What won't be flagged up quite so obviously is the fact that ice cream still supplies a substantial number of calories, and if you eat too much of it, you will put on weight.
- He has been flagged for a team-high seven penalties, including three for holding.
- One of the things that was flagged up was that you would need to bring in a bus stop and make sure that buses were frequent and took you everywhere in town, the shops, GPs or sports areas.
- Three players were flagged as being offside before the referee's assistant changed his mind.
- The ‘spiritual dimension’ of the school, focusing mainly on classrooms and learning resources, was also flagged up as an area in need of improvement.
- He said the issue had been flagged up at previous meetings and should not come as a surprise to staff.
- The theme of ‘passive drinking’ was flagged up early on.
- Poor facilities for refuse storage, a loss of outlook for the houses opposite and loss of privacy have also been flagged up in residents' letters of objection.
- In recent years, the 1980s have been flagged up as the decade of material aspiration.
- Improving the hall website, producing a detailed information pack and intense local advertising have been flagged up as key areas to act on.
- A security tape would be held and if any incidents came to light they would be flagged up.
- The Central Bank of Russia auditors, reviewing the deals, believed they were highly suspicious and should have been flagged up to authorities.
- If it was a matter that was of considerable concern to this defendant local authority, then one would have expected the issue to have been flagged up at an early stage, certainly before the hearing.
- The problems of this sector have been flagged up for some time.
- And it's not the only thing that be flagged up as a hazard to well-being, alerting people to the perils in store if they indulge.
- No surprise there - this has been flagged up for some time.
- Hampton, it turns out, had recently flagged its mass communications program for upgrading.
- And, as I said, communication was one of the points which was flagged up earlier; people were not being told what was happening.
- That ‘something’ may have been flagged up by the controversy and, no matter who was in the wrong there, I think it pointed ominously to a new battleground behind the scenes.
- If our goal is to flag an issue that nobody is paying attention to.
- They were flagged just four times - not once in the first half.
- He'll still drop a pass every now and then and get flagged for holding, but overall his concentration has improved.
- ‘Homelessness needs in north Wiltshire haven't been flagged up nearly enough,’ she said.
2flag someone/something downSignal to a vehicle or driver to stop, especially by waving one's arm. （尤指挥动手臂）示意（车辆，司机）停下 she flagged down a police patrol car Example sentencesExamples - A hackney carriage plate allows drivers to pick up passengers who flag them down in the street or from ranks in the city.
- We tried to flag them down because of the risk but most drivers simply ignored us.
- The Ford flipped into the air and landed on its roof after its driver raced away when a police patrol tried to flag it down.
- A man was arrested after a bus driver was flagged down at a bus stop on a York estate and threatened with a knife.
- Several times I have found that unless someone walking or standing by the roadside flags me down or waves at me chances are I will not see them.
- Why would any rational cement mixer driver stop for someone flagging them down?
- Now, the cab, clearly thinking I was about to just flag it down, did not stop.
- I would also remind people, please do not stop for any vehicles that try to flag you down, unless clearly marked as a police vehicle.
- Lesson 1: you need to flag a bus down even if you are standing at a bus stop.
- A Hackney license enables taxi drivers to pick up fares on the street as and when they are flagged down, while private hire drivers rely on bookings.
- In fact, it's illegal for the taxi drivers to pick up anyone trying to flag them down.
- He flagged the driver down and jogged over to him, shedding his stolen gear as he went.
- Police have also repeated their request that members of the public do not approach the asylum seekers or stop their cars if they are flagged down.
- Hackney carriage drivers are only allowed to wait for trade in designated ranks but they can be flagged down for journeys.
- The woman was driving alone early in the morning when she was flagged down by another motorist.
- The driver's arm was out the window, waving frantically, apparently flagging us down.
- Matt flagged me down and as I pulled to a stop, he ran over to my side and was about to say something before I put my hand up to gesture him to stop.
- I think for a moment of flagging the cab down anyway and having the driver wait while I retrieve money from my hotel room.
- Eventually another driver flagged her down and rescued the cat from the roof of her car.
- It stops when you flag it down, but the driver demurs with the same explanation, and kindly informs you that a bus back to town will be along in an hour.
Synonyms hail, wave down, signal to stop, gesture to stop, motion to stop, make a sign to stop, halt, summon - 2.1flag someone/something off Wave a flag at someone or something as a starting signal.
向…挥旗示意开始 the vintage car fiesta will be flagged off by the minister for tourism 老式汽车节将由旅游部长挥旗开幕。 Example sentencesExamples - At 10 a.m., the car rally was flagged off from the park, and the colourful caravan, on its way, attracted people lazing around in their homes.
- From there on the team would proceed to Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Morocco, before reaching the final stop in England, where it was flagged off on August 6.
- When the rally was flagged off there were just four students.
- They're trying to flag me in, and, of course, I'm not watching.
- Besides, a cycle rally was flagged off with an aim of creating awareness among the public on maintaining good health.
- Organised by the Southern Army Command, the cycle expedition was flagged off by Maj.
- Jonas waved his hand, flagging me to his spot in the wooden bleachers.
- The annual Conference will be flagged off on January 22 for three days.
- The next half of the rally will be flagged off by the Prime Minister.
- The train services will be flagged off on August 25.
- I was flagged down by two police officers, both of whom were male.
- More than 150 of Ireland's top rally cars will be flagged off from the hotel.
- The first competitor will be flagged off at 7 p.m. on September 8 and the other competitors will be flagged off at two minute intervals from then onwards.
- Ford leaned back in his seat and looked around the diner for the waitress, hoping to flag her over for a refill of coffee.
- This year, the battle has proved as compelling as any since the 60 cyclists were flagged off on the outskirts of Paris on 1 July 1903.
- The first vehicle will be flagged off by an official of the Hatton National Bank.
- According to a press note of army, the rally was flagged off by the two men.
- Like today, I saw a bum walking down the street with a cart full of bottles and flagged him over to my truck.
- The teams had been flagged off about 4 months ago.
- Air control flagged him an OK, and Akio set the ship down.
- Tyler flagged a waitress and they ordered their snack.
- 2.2no object (of an official) raise a flag to draw the referee's attention to a breach of the rules in soccer, rugby, and other sports.
（英式足球或橄榄球等运动中裁判）举旗请主裁判注意违规行为 the goalkeeper brought down Hendrie and a linesman immediately flagged 守门员使诈绊倒了亨德里，一个边裁立刻举旗示意犯规。 Example sentencesExamples - His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
- He's flagged for offside, even though replays show that he clearly wasn't.
- When the ball did eventually make it into the Aberdeen goal, the assistant referee had flagged for offside.
- That's when he reaches and gets flagged with ill-timed holding penalties.
- Even so, they could have been two up when he had the ball in the net only for the linesman to flag for offside.
- They held firm until an assistant referee flagged for a penalty that defied belief.
- The referee's assistant flagged for handball outside the area and had the result been in doubt the keeper might have been sent off.
- But Taylor's anger was not directed at the referee but at the assistant referee, who flagged for the incident.
- He nodded the ball into the back of the net, only for the assistant referee to flag for offside.
- However things got even more bizarre in the second half when he fell over while going for a high ball and the linesman flagged for a penalty.
- Officials are paid to make decisions and he flagged straight away.
- When the assistant referee refused to flag, the Dutchman angled a low shot across the goalkeeper and inside the far post.
- The trouble started last Sunday after a 22-8 loss that saw them get flagged for 11 penalties.
- As it happens, it wouldn't have counted even if Alberto had got it - the linesman had flagged for offside.
- The linesman had flagged to say the deflected shot should have been ruled out for offside but the referee overruled him, and this goal proved to be the turning point.
3Provide or decorate with a flag or flags. 悬旗于；以彩旗装点 Example sentencesExamples - The day started off with the field committee flagging out the field and preparing dressing rooms and signage.
- 3.1 Register (a vessel) in a particular country, under whose flag it then sails.
在某国注册（船只）并挂该国国旗航行 Example sentencesExamples - ‘We had problems with a ship called the Australian Bridge which is flagged in Panama,’ said Matt.
- Nine foreign fishing vessels, all Indonesian flagged, were apprehended and escorted to Gove by Customs and the Navy, the Senators said.
- Occasionally, foreign flagged ships radio asking for directions to get back on course.
- But, your Honour, what we submit in relation to the conventions is that here you have a vessel which is flagged, crewed and owned by foreign people and foreign companies.
- Specifically, the authorities required U.S. flagged vessels to be U.S.-owned and built and reserved coastal trades for U.S. registered ships.
- His shipping fleet has been at the centre of a dispute with the Australian maritime unions over the flagging out of two bulk carriers working the domestic coastal trade.
- That is why vessels are required under international law to have flags, and a State by flagging a vessel assumes responsibility with things which occur on that vessel, even when it is in the territorial waters of another State.
- Only one U.S. flagged vessel will be changing their cruising plans.
- Only about 45 Australian flagged and crewed vessels remain in business.
- It had also booked another tanker, the Cypriot flagged Presnya to carry 28,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from Greece to southern Spain.
- The government is encouraging shippers to use cheap, foreign flagged and crewed vessels - a move that has ended up in the Federal Court in Melbourne.
- Ships of Shame, flagged in tax havens like the Bahamas to evade labour, safety and tax requirements, have been implicated in terrorist threats as well as major pollution scares.
Phrases1(of a ship) be registered in a particular country and sail under its flag. （船）在某国注册并挂该国国旗航行 Example sentencesExamples - At the time, all the major cruise lines were incorporated abroad, and every major ship they sailed flew the flag of a country other than the United States.
- Two ships appeared on the horizon flying the flag that I was taught to be of Spain.
- On 12 January 2003, the MV Dorine, a Polish bulk carrier flying the flag of Cyprus, berthed in Bell Bay, Launceston.
- We were told it was a freighter flying the flag of neutral Portugal.
- It was therefore supposed to fly the flag of its nation of registry, i.e. Liberia.
- 1.1Represent or demonstrate support for one's country, political party, or organization, especially when one is abroad.
（尤指在海外时）代表（或支持）自己的国家（或政党、组织） he will be flying the flag for British fashion on the Paris catwalks Example sentencesExamples - He is waving the flag to show his support for better relations between Canada and the United States.
- Great Britain had a realistic chance of the top prize in the men's under-60 kg judo, with England's Commonwealth champion Craig Fallon flying the flag.
- He missed the chance to wave the flag for all who do not identify with any party and are simply proud to be Irish.
- With the dust hardly settled, she was off again, flying the flag in the Far East as she reverted to a roving ambassador for the UK.
- The 19-year-old was born in New Zealand, but this season he is flying the flag of the land of his forebears, namely Holland.
- People are afraid, and in waving the flag of pacifism - pacifism synonymous with anti-Americanism - they feel protected.
- Devonport frigate HMS Campbeltown has returned home to the West Country after flying the flag and making friends in Russia and the Baltic.
- Since these companies are busy waving the flag at the moment, one needs to recall how they described themselves during the past decade, as they dispersed production worldwide and planted their logos in many distant lands.
- And cheered on by nearly 38,000 delirious fans the 34-year-old Gloucester born star did a triumphant lap of honour, waving the flag of St George.
- By the same token, the Democratic Party will carry the flag of anti-clericism.
put the flags (or flag) out temperatures are increasing again—that's why we're putting out the flags 气温又一次在回升——所以我们要庆祝一下。 Example sentencesExamples - The other one is in prison and me and his mam put the flags out when that happened because he's safe, he's alive and he's warm.
- Oh, yes, we did put the flags out for the Coronation of Elizabeth II - but that wasn't a political show, was it, so it doesn't count.
- When it is all complete perhaps we will put the flags out in honour of the Council and have an opening day.
- In fact, it was Monday afternoon before we could really put the flags out.
(of a naval vessel) make an official visit to a foreign port, especially as a show of strength. （尤指海军舰艇为展示实力而）正式访问外国港口 Example sentencesExamples - One of the traditional diplomatic and political functions of the U.S. Navy is to represent and promote American imperial power by showing presence, going ashore, showing the flag.
- Deterrence, a centerpiece of Cold War diplomacy, encompasses maintaining credible forces and showing the flag at appropriate locations to deter an enemy's aggression.
- Normally, the United States uses only one or at the most two carrier strike groups to show the flag in a trouble spot.
- The SA Navy paid a visit to the city to show the flag.
- In those years, ships of all navies happily visited Indian ports, and Indian ships showed the flag in other ports of the world.
- Following a season in Europe, she crossed the Atlantic to New York and other East Coast ports to show the flag.
- This would hamper diplomatic efforts, reduce the U.S. Navy's ability to show the flag, and complicate logistics and supply for forward-deployed forces.
- In the future the Navy, in keeping with objectives set before it, will be more active in showing the flag and protecting Russian interests in politically, strategically and operationally important regions of the World Ocean.
- The navy provided coastal defense and ‘showed the flag ‘in areas such as the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific.
Make an excessive show of one's patriotism, especially for political ends. 〈主北美〉（尤指为政治目的而）过分表现爱国热情 Example sentencesExamples - It's like a crooked politician wrapping himself in the flag.
- When trouble threatens, it's only natural to wrap ourselves in the flag, not because we're a vain people, not even because we're patriots, but because we want to feel safe, comforted.
- And they can wrap themselves in the flag and say they ‘support our troops’ all they like - but it doesn't change the fact that their program is to promote our defeat at the hands of our enemies for their temporary political advantage.
- Far too many of us wrap ourselves in the flag and say, ‘But I have a right to buy what I want, eat what I want, say what I want, do what I want, etc.’
- Rather than wrap ourselves in the flag, it might be more interesting to ask conservatives just what happiness they resist pursuing, if self-restraint is so good.
- This suited a number of interests, including a wildly unpopular Russian political class that quickly wrapped themselves in the flag.
- Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the whole thing is that these are the first people to wrap themselves in the flag and pat themselves on the back for their patriotism.
- Instead he wraps himself in the flag and other wedge issues to ward off proper discussion about his dismantling of Australian egalitarianism.
- The President will wrap himself in the flag, pray the business cycle goes his way and pretend his gestures are real.
- ‘It would be counterproductive because it would trigger a xenophobic response and allow the violators to wrap themselves in the flag in an excessive spirit of nationalism,’ he said in a speech at John Hopkins University.
Derivativesnoun Then the flagger stepped into the center of the road. Example sentencesExamples - The flagger / observer was the ‘eyes’ of the boat operator.
- And to all of those elected officials that have worked to deny the people of Georgia a fair vote on the 1956 memorial flag, we the flaggers are coming for you.
- Not content with just one target, these flaggers soon dogged the steps of campaigning state legislators who had backed the new banner.
- At the end of the day, I could walk away and know the traffic was controlled without worrying about where we were getting power or the expense of running two shifts of flaggers.
OriginMid 16th century: perhaps from obsolete flag 'drooping', of unknown ultimate origin. The flag that means ‘a stone slab’ is recorded from medieval English, and may be one of the words given to us by the Vikings, making it a relative of flaw (Middle English) originally a snowflake, then a fragment, becoming a defect in the 15th century. The flag which is used as the emblem of a country has been with us since the mid 16th century, and is a different word. It is likely to represent the sound of something flapping in the wind, although it may also be connected with an obsolete word flag meaning ‘hanging down’. When we want to make clear our support for something we might say that we show the flag. Originally this was used of a naval vessel making an official visit to a foreign port. Flag meaning ‘become tired’ is probably related to the ‘emblem’ flag. It first meant ‘flap about loosely, hang down’. In June 1940, after Dunkirk and before the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill rallied the House of Commons with the words: ‘We shall not flag or fail…We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.’
Rhymesbag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag nounPlural flags flaɡflæɡ A flat stone slab, typically rectangular or square, used for paving. 铺路用的厚石板（多为矩形或正方形） Example sentencesExamples - Stone flags are £32 per square yard and slates go for £2 each.
- In one part of the bar, there were still stone flags.
- The work, beginning on Sunday and lasting for two weeks, involves digging out the asphalt path and replacing it with York stone flags.
- There are a lot of stone flags and items stolen which are part of the village's history, so I thought something should be done.
- They were surfaced with stone flags and were used for several centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the First Millennium.
- If you create something that's all railings and stone flags and lamp posts and signs, it may be neat and tidy but it doesn't do anything for wildlife.
- Its mills and cottages were beautifully built of Lancashire sandstone; its streets cobbled in granite; its pavements made of York stone flags.
- Equally, if anyone is offered worn York stone flags, they should be suspicious.
- The work involves lifting pavements and replacing them with York stone flags.
- The reporter had to ‘hack his way through the branches of a tree standing in the middle of the stone flags.’
- Valuable stone flags and memorial stones have been stolen by thieves in a series of churchyard raids.
- At least the continuous cacophony, sounded like a wooden bucket being dragged across the floor, interspersed with the sound of bristles being vigorously applied to stone flags.
- The work would include inserting an original door entrance and erecting railings and laying old stone flags outside.
- The Larder is basically a renovated two-storey barn, with warm stone flags, aged wooden beams and a collection of nicely lived-in old furniture.
- He then found his brother laid on stone flags in the yard.
- Discarded items littered the paving flags, prams, shopping trolleys, bags of presents never to be opened.
- Part of the work was the removal of stone flags which formed a raised area three steps high on which stood the altar.
- At the side of the house are a parking space, a garage and an enclosed courtyard with York stone flags.
- York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale.
- There were stone flags, bare boards and no central heating.
Synonyms flagstone, paving slab, paving stone, stone block, slab, sett
OriginLate Middle English (also in the sense 'turf, sod'): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Icelandic flag 'spot from which a sod has been cut' and Old Norse flaga 'slab of stone'. nounPlural flags flaɡflæɡ 1A plant with sword-shaped leaves that grow from a rhizome. 根茎上生长剑形叶的植物 see sweet flag a plant of the iris family (genus Iris, family Iridaceae).See yellow flag (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - This area of yellowed chlorotic tissue marks the juncture of the stems and the flag leaves at the time of the freeze.
- Water vapour and carbon dioxide exchange were measured weekly on attached flag leaves from flowering until full senescence, from eight different plants of each line.
- 1.1 The long slender leaf of a flag.
鸢尾叶；香蒲叶；菖蒲叶
OriginLate Middle English: related to Middle Dutch flag and Danish flæg; of unknown ultimate origin. verbflags, flagging, flagged flaɡflæɡ [no object]Become tired or less enthusiastic or dynamic. if you begin to flag, there is an excellent cafe to revive you 如果你开始感到疲倦，有一家极棒的咖啡馆能让你重振精神。 Example sentencesExamples - Both bands sounded bold and undeniably potent, were popular with the dance floor crowd and re-energised any flagging attention spans.
- Perhaps this could be used when the increasingly preposterous plotlines begin to flag in a couple of series time.
- He says her career was flagging when she hired him in 2003.
- We had to leave after only a few hours because Mark was starting to flag a bit.
- I wasn't on best form, still suffering a little from my recent attack of the wearies, so I began to flag about half-way round the store, seeking places to sit for a while as Graham rummaged.
- Unfortunately after that it starts to flag quite seriously as you begin to realise there's actually not very much at all about to happen.
- When her efforts continued for almost three hours and her strength began flagging, vets finally decided to prepare a mixture of water and medication to assist the rest of the birth.
- These public efforts began to flag in the late nineteenth century.
- The village pub is only 39 steps away (why else do you think we bought the house?) and when things begin to flag we can take them across to revitalise the proceedings.
- After her singing career flagged during the 1990s she reinvented herself as a pop diva, scoring 37 hit singles in the UK.
- Understandably, the smiths began to flag towards the end of the afternoon, for it was a hot day to be working orange hot iron.
- The party, so recently flagging, was beginning to take flight now.
- And that's where the book begins to flag, losing its plot.
- Their energy - if not their enthusiasm for commerce - flagging, the group descended into the underground mall in search of the food court.
- I'm beginning to flag by now, but we still have our ceremony to go.
- But two weeks passed and her hopes began to flag once more.
- Although my head was definitely up for some serious retail therapy, my heart was elsewhere and I found my enthusiasm flagging after two or three shops.
- It's a shame then that after such an inventive start the album begins to flag midway, with a series of mid-tempo ballads plodding by in unremarkable succession.
- The general impression is that agricultural expansion began under Augustus and flagged somewhat during the troubled period following his death.
- I have played dolls with her once before and I am rather unsure of what I am supposed to contribute, but today I was very tired after the week's exertion and was flagging fast.
Synonyms tire, become fatigued, grow tired/weary, weaken, grow weak, lose (one's) strength/energy, falter, languish, wilt, droop, sag fade, fail, decline, deteriorate, wane, ebb, diminish, decrease, lessen, abate, dwindle, erode, recede, sink, slump, taper off wither, melt away, peter out, die away, die down, die out, die off informal go downhill
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense 'flap about loosely, hang down'): related to obsolete flag 'hanging down'. nounflæɡflaɡ 1A piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities. 旗，旗帜；国旗；彩旗 美国国旗。 Example sentencesExamples - If a student wears the national flag of his own country he will be suspended or expelled from school.
- I have seen no reluctance on behalf of the Scottish and Welsh parts of this country to fly their national flags on the designated patron saint's day.
- As I said, even in my day they used to have the flags just outside the public schools, and presumably still do.
- It's the lead article in the music section, spread out over a full page with no adverts, with little national flags for each country, and even the bookies' odds for each song mentioned.
- He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
- A few years earlier, the magazine had sponsored a largely successful campaign to sell American flags to public schools.
- A three-judge panel entered the courtroom and sat beneath its only decorations, a Peruvian flag and a crucifix.
- Across the country, flags over public buildings and royal residences were flying at half-mast.
- Obviously corporates will be allowed to fly their banners and flags to mark off their piece of the battleground.
- Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
- Attempts to supplant the earlier symbolism, including the flag and motto, were popularly rejected.
- The flag is a symbol of indigenous and campesino movements.
- Prior to the mayor's edict, it was expected that the banner would fly on the same pole as the US flag along with a banner commemorating American prisoners of war.
- So he reluctantly changed it for one I had made for his birthday which shows the British and Phillipine flags conjoined, their poles placed together as a symbol of the friendship between our two countries.
- Following a death, white banners, flags, and other decorations are put up according to the status of the deceased.
- We used the Olympic flag to march in the opening ceremony.
- Scotland's parliament may be a year behind schedule and massively overspent, but that will not get in the way of creating a new flag for the troubled institution.
- All public buildings display the flag, as do many private homes.
- The flag flew from every public building, from every municipal flagpole, and from every structure of consequence in the land.
- Near the bottom, he wiped his brow before tying the other end of the rope to an American flag.
Synonyms banner, standard, ensign, pennant, pennon, banderole, streamer, jack - 1.1 Used in reference to the country to which a person has allegiance.
所效忠的国家 the private's heroism served as an example for every soldier under the flag 应当让布莱克成为全国军人学习的榜样。 Example sentencesExamples - The press is a bit misinformed: it's a young country of immigrants, of Poles and Germans who happen to live there and pledge allegiance to the flag.
- For example he will be competing in his third Olympics under three different flags.
- This small shareholder asked if he and the board members would be willing to rise and pledge allegiance to the flag?
- The deeply rooted victim syndrome has been manipulated over the past year by the mainstream media in order to rally the public around the flag.
- One reason why oaths are more common in America may be that American children are brought up to swear their allegiance to the flag, so the concept of affirming their beliefs is less alien than to British students.
- When I was young, I was puzzled as to why we would pledge allegiance to a flag.
- They think it's inappropriate to mix government and God in the way it now exists in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
- Do we want to live separately under separate flags only occasionally mixing with each other in ordinary every day events?
- 1.2 A ship's country of registry.
Example sentencesExamples - No transference of German ships to any neutral flag is to take place during Armistice.
- While the ship's flag was unconfirmed, a U.S. government official said the crew members were North Korean.
- Cruise companies register their ships under foreign flags, avoid these expenses, and suffer no consequences.
- The flag of the ship will provide the labor law.
- 1.3 The ensign carried by a flagship as an emblem of an admiral's rank.
（旗舰上象征舰队首领等级的）旗舰旗 Example sentencesExamples - The title went to Her Majesty, and with it yet another flag - the Admiralty flag of a gold anchor on red.
- Admiral Jellicoe flew his flag in the battleship HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
- The early ensigns were striped flags, some in the green and white of the Tudor Royal Livery colours, some red and white, some in other livery colours.
- With Admiral Togo flying his flag in the British-built battleship Mikasa, a strong naval force moved into position.
- Leading the Japanese Fleet was Admiral Heihachiro Togo, who flew his flag in the battleship Mikasa.
- He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers.
2A small piece of cloth attached at one edge to a pole and used as a marker or signal in various sports. 体育比赛中（用作标志的）小旗；信号旗 jumped the starter's flag, did he? Example sentencesExamples - He looked a certain scorer at the flag, to ensure the Halifax outfit were nilled.
- The forward tried to rectify matters by turning and drilling the ball over the line, but by then the flag had been raised, penalising him for straying offside.
- In the ensuing confusion, he managed to win the race following a wrong flag signal by a panicked marshal.
- He is played through one-on-one, unaware the linesman has his flag up for offside.
- Did you practice waving the green flag as the honorary starter for the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
- When the home keeper gathered the ball on the edge of his area the assistant referee vigorously waved his flag, signalling that his hands were outside.
- Davison made a blinding reaction save from Abbey after 79 minutes but the flag was up for offside against the striker.
- The striker had spent most of his evening failing to dodge the offside flag.
- This flag indicates that the racing event is over or concluded.
- The Paraguayans race off to celebrate what would have been the 2,000th goal in a World Cup finals… until the flag goes up a good 30 seconds late.
- No, just an offside flag - which looked mighty harsh on the replay.
- He was just about to put the ball into the empty net when a flag was raised indicating handball.
- If the team representative does not display the green flag to signal the start of a qualification attempt, the car will not be charged with an attempt and must return to the pit lane.
- He is released on the right and Saudi fans start to get excited but the linesman quickly raises his flag to signal off-side.
- He had his flag up for offside, although nobody could have been interfering with play to any significant degree!
- They screamed for an offside flag which never came.
- The guy holding the flag pulled it down signaling goal.
- 2.1 A device, symbol, or drawing resembling a flag, used as a marker.
（用作标志的）旗状装置（或符号、图画） golf courses are indicated by a numbered flag on the map 高尔夫球道在地图上用带编号的旗形符标示。 Example sentencesExamples - My stats package thoughtfully puts a national flag next to each country domain as it pops up on the server so it was easy to spot one I did not recognize.
- She had taken a world map, stuck in flags where she had already been, and pinned in all the places she wanted to go.
3Computing
A variable used to indicate a particular property of the data in a record. 〔计算机〕（表示储存数据特征的）标记，特征位 Example sentencesExamples - Don't ever delete a record - mark them for deletion with a flag, and then archive them periodically.
- This will let you watch the execution of a program to determine any gaps, and is especially useful if used in conjunction with a debug flag.
- During event registration, specific flags indicate whether a handler is to be executed inside a process.
- When reading a modified record one should check the attribute flag to see if this record needs to be deleted.
- Thereby, the flag is recorded on the effective data area.
4US A hook attached to the stem of a musical note, determining the rhythmic value of the note.
verbflæɡflaɡ [with object]1Mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way. （用特殊符号或标签）标出（某事项）以引起注意 “greatfully” would be flagged as a misspelling of “gratefully.” "greatfully"会作为"gratefully"的误拼标出来。 Example sentencesExamples - We used the spell checker to flag misspellings or nonstandard abbreviations or military/vendor terminology.
- One of the recommendations was that deaths should be monitored by flagging the health records of residents.
- Another very nice feature are the flags that allow you to flag emails that need attention so that the days of marking emails as ‘unread’ are gone too.
- For instance, the program will flag quotations and other matching text that have been adequately sourced.
- The only thing it lets me do with a button is spell check, and the only word it's ever flagged for me as misspelled was not misspelled.
- Use folders or labels to flag messages for follow-up action.
- The system also flags up problem pupils more quickly.
- A match was found and the program flagged the info and forwarded it to the Early Warning sub-system.
- It wasn't very good anyway, being based, it seems, on an American kindergarten dictionary and thus any word over 2 syllables or seven letters was automatically flagged.
- The danger tags employees were supposed to use to flag valves, indicating their open status, were rarely used.
- This comes in handy if you want to ensure that potentially offensive words are flagged as misspellings.
- It is able to authenticate the caller's identity, or to flag possible impostors, with a high degree of accuracy.
- Using software to prepare bids heads off mistakes because the program takes care of calculations and will flag missed entries.
- The program flags possible tax deductions and includes a flexible spending calculator.
- Both programs allow you to see what it was that caused them to flag a particular piece of email as spam.
- Additionally, the strategy mapping instruction required flagging the missing element in the problem with a question mark.
Synonyms indicate, identify, pick out, point out - 1.1 Draw attention to.
〈喻〉引起对…的注意 problems often flag the need for organizational change 种种问题常常促使人们关注机构改革的必要性。 Example sentencesExamples - The theme of ‘passive drinking’ was flagged up early on.
- He said the issue had been flagged up at previous meetings and should not come as a surprise to staff.
- No surprise there - this has been flagged up for some time.
- The Central Bank of Russia auditors, reviewing the deals, believed they were highly suspicious and should have been flagged up to authorities.
- Hampton, it turns out, had recently flagged its mass communications program for upgrading.
- What won't be flagged up quite so obviously is the fact that ice cream still supplies a substantial number of calories, and if you eat too much of it, you will put on weight.
- And, as I said, communication was one of the points which was flagged up earlier; people were not being told what was happening.
- In recent years, the 1980s have been flagged up as the decade of material aspiration.
- A security tape would be held and if any incidents came to light they would be flagged up.
- They were flagged just four times - not once in the first half.
- The US economy is a concern, as are the complications of the bond markets and pension deficits (which were flagged up in this column last month) along with rising fuel costs.
- The ‘spiritual dimension’ of the school, focusing mainly on classrooms and learning resources, was also flagged up as an area in need of improvement.
- One of the things that was flagged up was that you would need to bring in a bus stop and make sure that buses were frequent and took you everywhere in town, the shops, GPs or sports areas.
- And it's not the only thing that be flagged up as a hazard to well-being, alerting people to the perils in store if they indulge.
- He has been flagged for three holding penalties this year.
- If our goal is to flag an issue that nobody is paying attention to.
- If it was a matter that was of considerable concern to this defendant local authority, then one would have expected the issue to have been flagged up at an early stage, certainly before the hearing.
- ‘Homelessness needs in north Wiltshire haven't been flagged up nearly enough,’ she said.
- The problems of this sector have been flagged up for some time.
- He'll still drop a pass every now and then and get flagged for holding, but overall his concentration has improved.
- That ‘something’ may have been flagged up by the controversy and, no matter who was in the wrong there, I think it pointed ominously to a new battleground behind the scenes.
- He has been flagged for a team-high seven penalties, including three for holding.
- Poor facilities for refuse storage, a loss of outlook for the houses opposite and loss of privacy have also been flagged up in residents' letters of objection.
- Three players were flagged as being offside before the referee's assistant changed his mind.
- Improving the hall website, producing a detailed information pack and intense local advertising have been flagged up as key areas to act on.
- 1.2American Football Charge (a player) with a penalty by dropping a penalty flag.
a play in which he was flagged for being offside Example sentencesExamples - One of the things that was flagged up was that you would need to bring in a bus stop and make sure that buses were frequent and took you everywhere in town, the shops, GPs or sports areas.
- He said the issue had been flagged up at previous meetings and should not come as a surprise to staff.
- And, as I said, communication was one of the points which was flagged up earlier; people were not being told what was happening.
- The theme of ‘passive drinking’ was flagged up early on.
- If it was a matter that was of considerable concern to this defendant local authority, then one would have expected the issue to have been flagged up at an early stage, certainly before the hearing.
- The US economy is a concern, as are the complications of the bond markets and pension deficits (which were flagged up in this column last month) along with rising fuel costs.
- Poor facilities for refuse storage, a loss of outlook for the houses opposite and loss of privacy have also been flagged up in residents' letters of objection.
- Improving the hall website, producing a detailed information pack and intense local advertising have been flagged up as key areas to act on.
- In recent years, the 1980s have been flagged up as the decade of material aspiration.
- Hampton, it turns out, had recently flagged its mass communications program for upgrading.
- A security tape would be held and if any incidents came to light they would be flagged up.
- No surprise there - this has been flagged up for some time.
- If our goal is to flag an issue that nobody is paying attention to.
- The ‘spiritual dimension’ of the school, focusing mainly on classrooms and learning resources, was also flagged up as an area in need of improvement.
- ‘Homelessness needs in north Wiltshire haven't been flagged up nearly enough,’ she said.
- And it's not the only thing that be flagged up as a hazard to well-being, alerting people to the perils in store if they indulge.
- The problems of this sector have been flagged up for some time.
- That ‘something’ may have been flagged up by the controversy and, no matter who was in the wrong there, I think it pointed ominously to a new battleground behind the scenes.
- What won't be flagged up quite so obviously is the fact that ice cream still supplies a substantial number of calories, and if you eat too much of it, you will put on weight.
- The Central Bank of Russia auditors, reviewing the deals, believed they were highly suspicious and should have been flagged up to authorities.
2flag someone/something downSignal to a vehicle or driver to stop, especially by waving one's arm. （尤指挥动手臂）示意（车辆，司机）停下 she flagged down a patrol car Example sentencesExamples - In fact, it's illegal for the taxi drivers to pick up anyone trying to flag them down.
- The Ford flipped into the air and landed on its roof after its driver raced away when a police patrol tried to flag it down.
- A man was arrested after a bus driver was flagged down at a bus stop on a York estate and threatened with a knife.
- Hackney carriage drivers are only allowed to wait for trade in designated ranks but they can be flagged down for journeys.
- He flagged the driver down and jogged over to him, shedding his stolen gear as he went.
- Police have also repeated their request that members of the public do not approach the asylum seekers or stop their cars if they are flagged down.
- The driver's arm was out the window, waving frantically, apparently flagging us down.
- The woman was driving alone early in the morning when she was flagged down by another motorist.
- Why would any rational cement mixer driver stop for someone flagging them down?
- A hackney carriage plate allows drivers to pick up passengers who flag them down in the street or from ranks in the city.
- Several times I have found that unless someone walking or standing by the roadside flags me down or waves at me chances are I will not see them.
- We tried to flag them down because of the risk but most drivers simply ignored us.
- A Hackney license enables taxi drivers to pick up fares on the street as and when they are flagged down, while private hire drivers rely on bookings.
- Matt flagged me down and as I pulled to a stop, he ran over to my side and was about to say something before I put my hand up to gesture him to stop.
- Lesson 1: you need to flag a bus down even if you are standing at a bus stop.
- Now, the cab, clearly thinking I was about to just flag it down, did not stop.
- I think for a moment of flagging the cab down anyway and having the driver wait while I retrieve money from my hotel room.
- I would also remind people, please do not stop for any vehicles that try to flag you down, unless clearly marked as a police vehicle.
- Eventually another driver flagged her down and rescued the cat from the roof of her car.
- It stops when you flag it down, but the driver demurs with the same explanation, and kindly informs you that a bus back to town will be along in an hour.
Synonyms hail, wave down, signal to stop, gesture to stop, motion to stop, make a sign to - 2.1with object Direct (someone) to go in the specified direction by waving a flag or using hand signals.
挥旗（或打手势）指示（某人）走某个方向 have him flagged off the course 让人摇旗示意他离开跑道。 Example sentencesExamples - The teams had been flagged off about 4 months ago.
- More than 150 of Ireland's top rally cars will be flagged off from the hotel.
- From there on the team would proceed to Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Morocco, before reaching the final stop in England, where it was flagged off on August 6.
- At 10 a.m., the car rally was flagged off from the park, and the colourful caravan, on its way, attracted people lazing around in their homes.
- Like today, I saw a bum walking down the street with a cart full of bottles and flagged him over to my truck.
- Air control flagged him an OK, and Akio set the ship down.
- Tyler flagged a waitress and they ordered their snack.
- They're trying to flag me in, and, of course, I'm not watching.
- The first vehicle will be flagged off by an official of the Hatton National Bank.
- I was flagged down by two police officers, both of whom were male.
- Organised by the Southern Army Command, the cycle expedition was flagged off by Maj.
- Ford leaned back in his seat and looked around the diner for the waitress, hoping to flag her over for a refill of coffee.
- According to a press note of army, the rally was flagged off by the two men.
- When the rally was flagged off there were just four students.
- The next half of the rally will be flagged off by the Prime Minister.
- The train services will be flagged off on August 25.
- The first competitor will be flagged off at 7 p.m. on September 8 and the other competitors will be flagged off at two minute intervals from then onwards.
- Jonas waved his hand, flagging me to his spot in the wooden bleachers.
- This year, the battle has proved as compelling as any since the 60 cyclists were flagged off on the outskirts of Paris on 1 July 1903.
- The annual Conference will be flagged off on January 22 for three days.
- Besides, a cycle rally was flagged off with an aim of creating awareness among the public on maintaining good health.
- 2.2no object (of an official in football, soccer, and other sports) raise or throw a flag to indicate a breach of the rules.
the rookie cornerback managed to get flagged for three penalties in one game Example sentencesExamples - He's flagged for offside, even though replays show that he clearly wasn't.
- The linesman had flagged to say the deflected shot should have been ruled out for offside but the referee overruled him, and this goal proved to be the turning point.
- His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
- That's when he reaches and gets flagged with ill-timed holding penalties.
- Officials are paid to make decisions and he flagged straight away.
- When the ball did eventually make it into the Aberdeen goal, the assistant referee had flagged for offside.
- When the assistant referee refused to flag, the Dutchman angled a low shot across the goalkeeper and inside the far post.
- As it happens, it wouldn't have counted even if Alberto had got it - the linesman had flagged for offside.
- He nodded the ball into the back of the net, only for the assistant referee to flag for offside.
- They held firm until an assistant referee flagged for a penalty that defied belief.
- The trouble started last Sunday after a 22-8 loss that saw them get flagged for 11 penalties.
- However things got even more bizarre in the second half when he fell over while going for a high ball and the linesman flagged for a penalty.
- The referee's assistant flagged for handball outside the area and had the result been in doubt the keeper might have been sent off.
- But Taylor's anger was not directed at the referee but at the assistant referee, who flagged for the incident.
- Even so, they could have been two up when he had the ball in the net only for the linesman to flag for offside.
3Provide or decorate with a flag or flags. 悬旗于；以彩旗装点 Example sentencesExamples - The day started off with the field committee flagging out the field and preparing dressing rooms and signage.
- 3.1 Register (a vessel) in a specific country, under whose flag it then sails.
在某国注册（船只）并挂该国国旗航行 the flagging out of much of the fleet to flags of convenience 船队中的许多船只都注册挂方便旗这一行为。 Example sentencesExamples - Only one U.S. flagged vessel will be changing their cruising plans.
- His shipping fleet has been at the centre of a dispute with the Australian maritime unions over the flagging out of two bulk carriers working the domestic coastal trade.
- ‘We had problems with a ship called the Australian Bridge which is flagged in Panama,’ said Matt.
- Only about 45 Australian flagged and crewed vessels remain in business.
- That is why vessels are required under international law to have flags, and a State by flagging a vessel assumes responsibility with things which occur on that vessel, even when it is in the territorial waters of another State.
- Specifically, the authorities required U.S. flagged vessels to be U.S.-owned and built and reserved coastal trades for U.S. registered ships.
- But, your Honour, what we submit in relation to the conventions is that here you have a vessel which is flagged, crewed and owned by foreign people and foreign companies.
- Occasionally, foreign flagged ships radio asking for directions to get back on course.
- It had also booked another tanker, the Cypriot flagged Presnya to carry 28,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from Greece to southern Spain.
- Nine foreign fishing vessels, all Indonesian flagged, were apprehended and escorted to Gove by Customs and the Navy, the Senators said.
- Ships of Shame, flagged in tax havens like the Bahamas to evade labour, safety and tax requirements, have been implicated in terrorist threats as well as major pollution scares.
- The government is encouraging shippers to use cheap, foreign flagged and crewed vessels - a move that has ended up in the Federal Court in Melbourne.
Phrases1(of a ship) be registered in a particular country and sail under its flag. （船）在某国注册并挂该国国旗航行 Example sentencesExamples - We were told it was a freighter flying the flag of neutral Portugal.
- Two ships appeared on the horizon flying the flag that I was taught to be of Spain.
- At the time, all the major cruise lines were incorporated abroad, and every major ship they sailed flew the flag of a country other than the United States.
- It was therefore supposed to fly the flag of its nation of registry, i.e. Liberia.
- On 12 January 2003, the MV Dorine, a Polish bulk carrier flying the flag of Cyprus, berthed in Bell Bay, Launceston.
- 1.1Represent or demonstrate support for one's country, political party, or organization, especially when one is abroad.
（尤指在海外时）代表（或支持）自己的国家（或政党、组织） he will never consider buying an import, because he likes to fly the flag Example sentencesExamples - People are afraid, and in waving the flag of pacifism - pacifism synonymous with anti-Americanism - they feel protected.
- And cheered on by nearly 38,000 delirious fans the 34-year-old Gloucester born star did a triumphant lap of honour, waving the flag of St George.
- Since these companies are busy waving the flag at the moment, one needs to recall how they described themselves during the past decade, as they dispersed production worldwide and planted their logos in many distant lands.
- The 19-year-old was born in New Zealand, but this season he is flying the flag of the land of his forebears, namely Holland.
- Great Britain had a realistic chance of the top prize in the men's under-60 kg judo, with England's Commonwealth champion Craig Fallon flying the flag.
- He missed the chance to wave the flag for all who do not identify with any party and are simply proud to be Irish.
- He is waving the flag to show his support for better relations between Canada and the United States.
- By the same token, the Democratic Party will carry the flag of anti-clericism.
- Devonport frigate HMS Campbeltown has returned home to the West Country after flying the flag and making friends in Russia and the Baltic.
- With the dust hardly settled, she was off again, flying the flag in the Far East as she reverted to a roving ambassador for the UK.
(of a naval vessel) make an official visit to a foreign port, especially as a show of strength. （尤指海军舰艇为展示实力而）正式访问外国港口 Example sentencesExamples - Following a season in Europe, she crossed the Atlantic to New York and other East Coast ports to show the flag.
- This would hamper diplomatic efforts, reduce the U.S. Navy's ability to show the flag, and complicate logistics and supply for forward-deployed forces.
- The navy provided coastal defense and ‘showed the flag ‘in areas such as the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific.
- In those years, ships of all navies happily visited Indian ports, and Indian ships showed the flag in other ports of the world.
- Normally, the United States uses only one or at the most two carrier strike groups to show the flag in a trouble spot.
- One of the traditional diplomatic and political functions of the U.S. Navy is to represent and promote American imperial power by showing presence, going ashore, showing the flag.
- The SA Navy paid a visit to the city to show the flag.
- Deterrence, a centerpiece of Cold War diplomacy, encompasses maintaining credible forces and showing the flag at appropriate locations to deter an enemy's aggression.
- In the future the Navy, in keeping with objectives set before it, will be more active in showing the flag and protecting Russian interests in politically, strategically and operationally important regions of the World Ocean.
Make an excessive show of one's patriotism, especially for political ends. 〈主北美〉（尤指为政治目的而）过分表现爱国热情 Example sentencesExamples - Instead he wraps himself in the flag and other wedge issues to ward off proper discussion about his dismantling of Australian egalitarianism.
- And they can wrap themselves in the flag and say they ‘support our troops’ all they like - but it doesn't change the fact that their program is to promote our defeat at the hands of our enemies for their temporary political advantage.
- ‘It would be counterproductive because it would trigger a xenophobic response and allow the violators to wrap themselves in the flag in an excessive spirit of nationalism,’ he said in a speech at John Hopkins University.
- When trouble threatens, it's only natural to wrap ourselves in the flag, not because we're a vain people, not even because we're patriots, but because we want to feel safe, comforted.
- Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the whole thing is that these are the first people to wrap themselves in the flag and pat themselves on the back for their patriotism.
- Rather than wrap ourselves in the flag, it might be more interesting to ask conservatives just what happiness they resist pursuing, if self-restraint is so good.
- This suited a number of interests, including a wildly unpopular Russian political class that quickly wrapped themselves in the flag.
- Far too many of us wrap ourselves in the flag and say, ‘But I have a right to buy what I want, eat what I want, say what I want, do what I want, etc.’
- It's like a crooked politician wrapping himself in the flag.
- The President will wrap himself in the flag, pray the business cycle goes his way and pretend his gestures are real.
OriginMid 16th century: perhaps from obsolete flag ‘drooping’, of unknown ultimate origin. nounflæɡflaɡ A flat stone slab, typically rectangular or square, used for paving. 铺路用的厚石板（多为矩形或正方形） Example sentencesExamples - At the side of the house are a parking space, a garage and an enclosed courtyard with York stone flags.
- If you create something that's all railings and stone flags and lamp posts and signs, it may be neat and tidy but it doesn't do anything for wildlife.
- Part of the work was the removal of stone flags which formed a raised area three steps high on which stood the altar.
- There were stone flags, bare boards and no central heating.
- Discarded items littered the paving flags, prams, shopping trolleys, bags of presents never to be opened.
- York stone flags, laid in random sizes, were chosen for the paving to give a sense of quality and scale.
- The work involves lifting pavements and replacing them with York stone flags.
- Its mills and cottages were beautifully built of Lancashire sandstone; its streets cobbled in granite; its pavements made of York stone flags.
- The reporter had to ‘hack his way through the branches of a tree standing in the middle of the stone flags.’
- They were surfaced with stone flags and were used for several centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the First Millennium.
- Valuable stone flags and memorial stones have been stolen by thieves in a series of churchyard raids.
- Stone flags are £32 per square yard and slates go for £2 each.
- He then found his brother laid on stone flags in the yard.
- In one part of the bar, there were still stone flags.
- The work would include inserting an original door entrance and erecting railings and laying old stone flags outside.
- At least the continuous cacophony, sounded like a wooden bucket being dragged across the floor, interspersed with the sound of bristles being vigorously applied to stone flags.
- The Larder is basically a renovated two-storey barn, with warm stone flags, aged wooden beams and a collection of nicely lived-in old furniture.
- There are a lot of stone flags and items stolen which are part of the village's history, so I thought something should be done.
- The work, beginning on Sunday and lasting for two weeks, involves digging out the asphalt path and replacing it with York stone flags.
- Equally, if anyone is offered worn York stone flags, they should be suspicious.
Synonyms flagstone, paving slab, paving stone, stone block, slab, sett
OriginLate Middle English (also in the sense ‘turf, sod’): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Icelandic flag ‘spot from which a sod has been cut’ and Old Norse flaga ‘slab of stone’. nounflæɡflaɡ 1A plant with sword-shaped leaves that grow from a rhizome. 根茎上生长剑形叶的植物 see sweet flag a plant of the iris family (genus Iris, family Iridaceae). See blue flag (sense 1 of the noun); yellow flag (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - This area of yellowed chlorotic tissue marks the juncture of the stems and the flag leaves at the time of the freeze.
- Water vapour and carbon dioxide exchange were measured weekly on attached flag leaves from flowering until full senescence, from eight different plants of each line.
- 1.1 The long slender leaf of a flag plant.
鸢尾叶；香蒲叶；菖蒲叶
OriginLate Middle English: related to Middle Dutch flag and Danish flæg; of unknown ultimate origin. verbflæɡflaɡ [no object](of a person) become tired, weaker, or less enthusiastic. （人）疲乏；变弱；热情消退 if you begin to flag, there is an excellent cafe to revive you 如果你开始感到疲倦，有一家极棒的咖啡馆能让你重振精神。 Example sentencesExamples - I have played dolls with her once before and I am rather unsure of what I am supposed to contribute, but today I was very tired after the week's exertion and was flagging fast.
- These public efforts began to flag in the late nineteenth century.
- When her efforts continued for almost three hours and her strength began flagging, vets finally decided to prepare a mixture of water and medication to assist the rest of the birth.
- It's a shame then that after such an inventive start the album begins to flag midway, with a series of mid-tempo ballads plodding by in unremarkable succession.
- Although my head was definitely up for some serious retail therapy, my heart was elsewhere and I found my enthusiasm flagging after two or three shops.
- I wasn't on best form, still suffering a little from my recent attack of the wearies, so I began to flag about half-way round the store, seeking places to sit for a while as Graham rummaged.
- I'm beginning to flag by now, but we still have our ceremony to go.
- We had to leave after only a few hours because Mark was starting to flag a bit.
- But two weeks passed and her hopes began to flag once more.
- And that's where the book begins to flag, losing its plot.
- Unfortunately after that it starts to flag quite seriously as you begin to realise there's actually not very much at all about to happen.
- The party, so recently flagging, was beginning to take flight now.
- After her singing career flagged during the 1990s she reinvented herself as a pop diva, scoring 37 hit singles in the UK.
- Both bands sounded bold and undeniably potent, were popular with the dance floor crowd and re-energised any flagging attention spans.
- Understandably, the smiths began to flag towards the end of the afternoon, for it was a hot day to be working orange hot iron.
- He says her career was flagging when she hired him in 2003.
- Perhaps this could be used when the increasingly preposterous plotlines begin to flag in a couple of series time.
- The general impression is that agricultural expansion began under Augustus and flagged somewhat during the troubled period following his death.
- The village pub is only 39 steps away (why else do you think we bought the house?) and when things begin to flag we can take them across to revitalise the proceedings.
- Their energy - if not their enthusiasm for commerce - flagging, the group descended into the underground mall in search of the food court.
Synonyms tire, become fatigued, grow tired, grow weary, weaken, grow weak, lose energy, lose strength, lose one's energy, lose one's strength, falter, languish, wilt, droop, sag fade, fail, decline, deteriorate, wane, ebb, diminish, decrease, lessen, abate, dwindle, erode, recede, sink, slump, taper off
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense ‘flap about loosely, hang down’): related to obsolete flag ‘hanging down’. |