| 词汇 | lapse into something |
| 释义 | lapse into somethinglapse into something phrasal verbphr v a) lapse into unconsciousness/silence/sleep etcBECOME to go into a quiet or less active state 逐渐失去知觉/陷入沉默/进入睡眠等 He lapsed into a coma and died two days later. 他陷入昏迷，两天后去世了。 Alison lapsed into puzzled silence. 艾利森一头雾水，不作声了。 b) START DOING somethingto begin to behave or speak in a way that you did before 恢复〔以前的行为方式或说话方式〕 She lapsed back into her old ways. 她又回到老样子了。 Occasionally he lapsed into his native German. 他偶尔也会换回母语德语来表达。 c) START DOING somethingto get into a worse state or become worse 陷入，进入〔更糟糕的状况〕 Following his death, the Empire lapsed into chaos. 他死后，帝国陷入混乱。 His poetry often lapses into sentimentality. 他的诗歌经常流于伤感。 Examples from the Corpus lapse into • A mysterious apple laced with morphine causes Snow White to lapse into a coma.• Mr. Flannery Is there not a grave danger of the former Soviet Union lapsing into anarchy?• Devastating crises may shortly overtake us, leading inevitably to a lapse into barbarism.• She had lapsed into gloomy self-absorption, perhaps in reaction to Golding's interrogatory methods.• The one thing you can not afford to do is give up and lapse into helpless, complaining Stage 5 mode.• He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view, and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions.• Again, I lapse into metaphor.• He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress, or even, at one point, some pompous Hancockian self-pity. lapse into unconsciousness/silence/sleep etc• But ultimately, words fail them and they lapse into silence.• Without my prompting, Jack often lapsed into silence.• Soon after that she would lapse into sleep, then unconsciousness, then a state of deep coma.• I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw, lapsing into silence, when I was offered any food. → lapse into something at lapse2(1) |
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