flip是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 If you flip something, you turn it over quickly one or more times, and if something flips, it turns over quickly. -- （使）快速翻轉；迅速翻動

  • I flipped the book (over) to look at the back cover. 我很快地把書翻過去看了看封底。

  • I lost my place in my book when the pages flipped over in the wind. 風把書頁吹亂了，我找不到正在看的那個地方了。

  • You turn the machine on by flipping (= operating) the switch on the side. 把邊上的開關按一下，機器就啟動了。

  • The captains flipped a coin into the air (= made it turn over in the air to see which side it landed on) to decide which side would bat first. 兩隊隊長向空中拋出一枚硬幣，決定哪一方先擊球。

  • I don't want to spend the rest of my life flipping burgers. 我可不想一輩子都翻烤漢堡。

• 1 to buy a house, improve it a little, then sell it quickly for more money -- 迅速轉售（稍作裝修後的房子）以獲取利潤

  • I am going to take three weeks' vacation and flip this house. 我要休假三個星期，稍微裝修一下這個房子然後賣掉。

• 2 an occasion when something turns over quickly or repeatedly -- 翻動，翻轉

  • a flip of a coin 拋硬幣

  • The acrobats were doing somersaults and flips (= jumping and turning their bodies over in the air). 雜技演員們正在翻筋斗和空翻。

• 3 informal for flippant -- （flippant的非正式說法）

• 4 used when you are slightly annoyed -- 「不！」（感歎詞，表示慍怒）

  • Oh, flip, I've missed the bus. 哦不！我錯過公車了。