flounder

英['flaʊndə] 美['flaʊndɚ]
  • vi. 挣扎,折腾;错乱地做事或说话
  • n. 挣扎,辗转;比目鱼

词态变化


复数: flounders;第三人称单数: flounders;过去式: floundered;过去分词: floundered;现在分词: floundering;

助记提示


1、flounce + blunder.

founder蹒跚,绊倒。
flounder挣扎,踉跄。
blunder踉跄地走。
2. flat => flounder "flatfish" (suffixed and nasalized form).
3. 同源名称的比目鱼:flatfish, plaice, fluke, flounder.
4. perhaps an alteration of founder.
5. perhaps native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion, symbolic fl- frequently beginning words connected with swift or sudden movement. See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip.
6. perhaps a blend of founder and blunder.
7. 谐音“浮乱动”----浮在水上乱动。
8. flo=flow / float + under => 在水下流动、浮动,不挣扎的话就等着淹死吧。
9. 源自founder 摔倒,沉没→沉在底部,flounder 指还能走,比founder 多个l,看成撑着的木杖。
10. flow + under 脚下是湍急的流水、河水,你挣扎,艰苦地移动,因为脚下的水湍流不息、非常湍急。

中文词源


flounder 挣扎

来自辅音丛fl, 扑腾,拍打,拟声词,词源同flap, flag, flutter. 引申词义挣扎,折腾。

flounder 比目鱼

来自PIE*plat的鼻音扩大形式,平的,词源同flat, platypus. 用来指比目鱼。

英文词源


flounder (v.)
"struggle awkwardly and impotently," especially when hampered somehow, 1590s, of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of founder (q.v.), influenced by Dutch flodderen "to flop about," or native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion. Figurative use is from 1680s. Related: Floundered; floundering. As a noun, "act of struggling," by 1867.
flounder (n.)
"flatfish," c. 1300, from Anglo-French floundre, Old North French flondre, from Old Norse flydhra, from Proto-Germanic *flunthrjo (cognates: Middle Low German vlundere, Danish flynder, Old Swedish flundra "flatfish"), suffixed and nasalized form of PIE *plat- "to spread" (cognate: Greek platys "flat, wide, broad;" see plaice (n.)).

双语例句


1. What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
多么可惜,他的事业深陷困局。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with stuffed flounder.
但拔先生的餐盘里盛满了填馅的比目鱼。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The plane had begun to drop and flounder wildly.
飞机已经开始下降,剧烈地颠簸着.

来自辞典例句

4. He couldn't swim and just flounder about in the water.
他不会游泳,只是在水里胡乱地划动.

来自辞典例句

5. She could only flounder through her song.
她只能慌乱地唱完她的歌.

来自辞典例句