flag down

英 [flæɡ daʊn]

美 [flæɡ daʊn]

挥手拦下（尤指出租车）

英英释义

verb

• signal to stop
  1. Let's flag down a cab--it's starting to rain
  2. The policeman flagged down our car

双语例句

• Officials hung the flag upside down. You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife.
  官员们把旗子挂倒了。气氛紧张得让人透不过气来。
• In the garden he had a tall mast with a flag atop, and he hauled it up and let it down with ropes, and used strange sailor talk, such as country folk don't understand.
  他在花园里树了一根桅杆，顶端有一面旗子。他用绳子把旗子升起，降下。他说的一些奇奇怪怪的水手话，乡下人是听不懂的。
• When it began to rain, I had to flag down a taxi.
  天开始下雨了，我不得不拦了一辆出租车。
• The flag is down on the left side.
  那面旗子向左倾下。
• When she stops by your desk, you know she's setting up camp, and you repeatedly glance over her shoulder, hoping to flag down a passing colleague who can rescue you.
  当她走过你的办公桌，你知道她要安营扎寨了，你不停朝她的身后瞟几眼，希望找个过往同事能救你。
• MOVING house is always traumatic, and the odd tear would have been forgivable as the flag came down over America's old base at the South Pole.
  举家搬迁难免令人黯然神伤，看着国旗从美国南极站老基地上缓缓移下，即使潸然泪下也是情有可原。
• Examples of the Union flag flying upside down.
  把联合旗挂反的乌龙例子。
• You flag down that car, you bury your daughter.
  你把车停下，你就得埋葬你女儿。
• A vessel was sighted with the glass, drifting with the wind, and showing her flag with the union down.
  望远镜中看到一只船在风中漂荡，倒挂着英国国旗。
• Flag that biplane down now!
  快让那架飞机降落！