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flake1/fleik/ n. & v.●n. 1a a small thin light piece of snow (一片)雪花 b a similar piece of another material (类似雪花的)小薄片 2 a thin broad piece of material peeled or split off (剥下或裂下的)一片薄而宽的物质 3 Archaeol. a piece of hard stone chipped off and used as a tool 【考古】(用作工具的)石片,原始石器 4 a natural division of the flesh of some fish (某些鱼的)肌隔 5 the dogfish or other shark as food (食用的)狗鲨(或其他鲨鱼)肉片 6 N. Amer. slang a crazy, eccentric, or dim person [北美] [俚语]怪僻的人;愚钝的人 ●v. tr. & intr. (often foll. by 常后跟 away, off) 1 take off or come away in flakes 一片片剥落(或脱落) 2 sprinkle with or fall in snowlike flakes 雪片似地撒布(或降落) □ flake out colloq. fall asleep or drop from exhaustion; faint [口] (因精疲力竭而)睡着(或倒下);昏过去 [Middle English, origin unknown: perhaps related to Old Norse flakna ‘flake off’] |