英语释义

1. to begin using or doing (something that should be avoided) for a short period of time
He's a good writer, but he occasionally lapses into jargon.

2. to begin to be in (a worse or less active state or condition)
The crowd lapsed into silence. The patient lapsed into a coma. The society lapsed into decline.

片语

Lapse Into Bad Habits坏习惯

to lapse into unconsciousness逐渐失去知觉

a lapse into sin清白或者纯洁的缺失

sink into陷入

lapse into ruin荒芜成废墟

a lapse into crime犯罪

get caught up in陷入

lapse back into bad habits重又沾染坏习惯

Lapse into reading开始埋头读书

to lapse into silence翻译

lapse into idleness变得懒惰

英汉例句

• The police tried to trace his lapse into petty crime.

  警察试图追蹤他小打小闹作奸犯科的缘由。

• Although this blog will sometimes lapse into self-promotion, I will try to keep it to a minimum.

  虽然，博客的更新，有时会有时滞，因自我发奋的原因。但是，我将会力争最小化它。

• He knew that he might soon lapse into unconsciousness.

  他知道自己可能很快就会失去知觉。

• It「s easy, in other words, to lapse into focusing only on things nearby, obvious, and familiar.

  换言之，人们很容易陷入只注重身边明显的、熟悉的事物的怪圈。

• Exposure to a gas leak in an abandoned mine induced a former Army Air Corps officer to lapse into a form of suspended animation.

  由于呼吸到了废弃矿井中的泄漏气体，一名前陆军航空队军官陷入了一种假死状态。

• Like many other Zimbabwean bigwigs, Mr Nhema himself pocketed a farm that was confiscated a few years ago-and has already let it lapse into ruin.

  和其他许多津巴布韦的要人一样，Nhema自己也曾将数年前被收缴的一块农庄据为己有，并且已经使其消失殆尽。

• Even a half-second response delay suggests a lapse into sleepiness, known as a microsleep.

  就算只滞后半秒，也暗示着受试者陷入了睡眠之中，即微睡眠。

• [font=Times New Roman]The main risk to Ms Merkel is that she could lapse into irrelevance.

  受到细枝末节的问题牵绊是默克尔夫人所面临的主要风险。

• But I am going to lapse into a mini coma for just a second, and then we」re gonna have the best Lego battle ever.

  先让我瞇个几秒钟，然后我们就开一场世上最惊世骇俗的乐高大战。

• Post-modern philosophys appearing makes philosophy reason lapse into non-philosophy.

  后现代哲学的出现，又使哲学理性向「非哲学」滑落。

• I saw him smile to himself — grin rather — and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs Linton had occasion to be absent from the apartment.

  只要是林惇夫人一离开这间房子，我就看见他自己在微笑——简直是在狞笑——而且沉入兇险的冥想中。

• But the gaiety dose not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.

  但是这种欢快听上去并不真实，任何人只要多喝一杯，就会悲从中来，潸然泪下。

• I can「t see lettin」 the poor blessed childt miss baptizing, an「 they aren」t for goin「 to church wi」t—「 He seemed to lapse into a muse.」

  我不能看着这个受上帝庇佑的可怜孩子错过洗礼，但是他们不能进教堂——”他似乎陷入了沉思。

• Although this blog will sometimes lapse into self-promotion (as I just did), I will try to keep it to a minimum.

  虽然，博客的更新，有时会有时滞，因自我发奋的原因。但是，我将会力争最小化它。

• Indeed, they lapse into very great errors not only in the realm of faith but also in that of life and morals.

  事实上，他们陷入极大的错误，不仅是在信仰，而且在这的生活和道德。

• Then notice how the presence of divided attention imperceptibly slips away as you lapse into mental associations, daydreaming, retrospection, and planning-into what the Fourth way calls imagination.

  然后注意在你落入心智上的联想、白日梦、回忆、以及计画，亦即第四道所谓的想像当中时，分开注意力的当下是如何不知不觉地溜走。

• If you start thinking of yourself as a victim or allow yourself to lapse into prolonged negativity, you won「t be hurting anyone except yourself.

  如果你开始把自己看成「受害者」，或是长期消极，受伤的只会是你自己。

• Good triumphs, yet Tolkien」s epic does not lapse into escapism.

  善会得到胜利，但托尔金的史实并未落入逃避现实的窠臼。

• The main risk to Ms Merkel is that she could lapse into irrelevance.

  受到细枝末节的问题牵绊是默克尔夫人所面临的主要风险。

• For an instant, each was tempted to lapse into the old, familiar progression of movements toward further intimacies.

  一瞬间，每人都想陷入原来熟悉的更为亲昵的行为之中。

• If you start thinking of yourself as a victim or allow yourself to lapse into prolonged negativity, you won't be hurting anyone except yourself.

  要是你一开始就把自己算作「受害者」，或是放纵自己长时间悲观，那末受伤的只会是你自己。