flailing

英 [ˈfleɪlɪŋ]

美 [ˈfleɪlɪŋ]

v.  乱动; 胡乱摆动; (尤指用棍棒)猛击，猛打
flail的现在分词

现在分词：flailing　复数：flailings　

BNC.24275 / COCA.22994

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (四肢)拼命乱动,使劲乱摆
  If your arms or legsflailor if youflailthem about, they wave about in an energetic but uncontrolled way.
  1. His arms were flailing in all directions...
     他的手臂胡乱挥舞着。
  2. He gave a choked cry, flailed his arms wildly for a moment, and then went over the edge.
     他闷哼了一声，手臂乱挥了几下，就从边上摔了下去。
  3. Flail aroundmeans the same asflail.
     flail around 同 flail
  4. He started flailing around and hitting Vincent in the chest.
     他的手臂开始胡乱挥舞起来，打在了文森特胸口上。
• 连枷(脱粒用的农具)
  Aflailis a tool which consists of a piece of wood or metal that can swing freely from a handle. Flails are used to beat crops such as corn in order to separate the grain from the rest of the plant.

双语例句

• Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
  行动是在底部的一种凶猛和连枷的武器用以获得平衡并保持漂浮。
• Many mayfly species are clumsy swimmers at best, and combine that with shucking their outer nymph skin, they become a flailing treat for the waiting trout.
  很多蜉蝣种拙游泳充其量结合，剥其外层若虫皮肤他们等候治疗退化成为鳟。
• Any player may play this ability. 1: Flailing Manticore gets-1/-1 until end of turn.
  任何玩家都可使用此异能。1：连枷翼狮得-1/-1直到回合结束。
• After a good eight seconds of flailing, grabbing, and poking at the air above my desk, Frank Welty finally unholstered his sidearm and put me out of my misery.
  我在桌子上朝空气又抓又砸又戳地比划了八秒钟，弗兰克•威尔提终于掏出手枪把我干掉了。
• The guard shoves me forward and I stumble out into the unknown, my arms flailing to protect against unseen perils that lie ahead of me in the black air.
  保安往前推了我一把，我跌进了未知之中，我双臂乱舞，以防备黑暗中看不见的危险。
• But many are concerned not so much about a failed president as about a flailing nation.
  但是与其说人们更加关心一个失败的总统，不如说更加关心一个动荡的国家。
• The US has the ability to lead on the issue, whereas the Chinese are plainly flailing.
  美国有能力在这个问题上发挥领导作用，而中国显然做不到。
• One flailing arm caught him across the cheek.
  一只挥舞着的手臂打到了他的面颊上。
• He doesn't so much dance as self-detonate, limbs flailing, chest twitching, legs bending. It's like the inner demons of every deranged character he's played have come together to rough up his body.
  他没有太多的花架式，只是含胸挥臂，弯腿痉挛式的自我疯狂罢了，就像被那些他曾饰演过的疯狂人物心中隐藏的魔鬼冲撞着他的身体一样。
• These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing& an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.
  我现在说的都是各种猜想，但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度，这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式，对抗共同的敌人。