flop

vt. 笨拙地抛下；扑通放下；拍（翅）

vi. 失败；扑拍；扑通落下；笨重地摔

n. 失败；砰然落下；拍击声

adv. 扑通一声；恰巧

中文词源

flop 猛然坐下，失败

来自flap拼写变体，飘动，翻动。字母o较字母a声音更重，引申词义猛然坐下，倒地。

flop (v.): c. 1600, "to flap," probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound. Sense of "fall or drop heavily" is 1836; that of "collapse, fail" is 1919; though the figurative noun sense of "a failure" is recorded from 1893. Related: Flopped; flopping.
flop (n.): 1823, "act of flopping; any action that produces the sound 'flop;' the sound itself," from flop (v.). Figurative sense of "a failure; that which is a failure" is by 1893, from the notion of a sudden break-down or collapse. Extended form flopperoo attested from 1936. The Fosbury flop high-jumping technique (1968) is so called in reference to U.S. athlete Dick Fosbury (b.1947), who used it to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal.

1、flap + drop.2. 谐音“飞落扑、飞落噗、飞落拍”。

1. Very good use of the term flip - flop, by the way.: 那一个立场不坚定,经常flip -flop 的人可就不能这么说咯!

2. It is the public who decide if a film is a smash or a flop.: 影片成败与否取决于公众。

3. He seemed so sure of his decision, how could he flip-flop so dramatically now?: 他当时好像对自己的决定非常肯定，现在怎么会突然有如此巨大的转变呢？

4. It is the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a flop.: 决定一部电影会走红还是惨败的是大众。

5. In the absence of any well-placed pub, this was the perfect spot to flop down for a packed lunch.: 由于找不到位置合适的酒馆，这里就是随便吃顿盒饭再好不过的地方了。