flip-flops

英 [ˈflɪp flɒps]

美 [ˈflɪp flɑːps]

n.  人字拖鞋; 夹脚趾拖鞋
v.  改变观点; (尤指)转持相反观点，来一个180度的大转弯
flip-flop的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 人字拖鞋
  Flip-flopsare open shoes which are held on your feet by a strap that goes between your toes.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用thongs


• VERB (尤指政客)改变决定，转持相反观点
  If you say that someone, especially a politician,flip-flopson a decision, you are critical of them because they change their decision, so that they do or think the opposite.
  1. He has been criticized for flip-flopping on several key issues...
     他因为在几个关键问题上临场变卦而备受批评。
  2. He seemed so sure of his decision, how could he flip-flop so dramatically now?
     他当时好像对自己的决定非常肯定，现在怎么会突然有如此巨大的转变呢？
  3. Flip-flopis also a noun.
     
  4. The President's flip-flops on taxes made him appear indecisive.
     总统在税收问题上的一再反复使他显得优柔寡断。

双语例句

• A woman in plastic flip-flops carried a black bucket filled with urine downstairs, accompanied by a young boy wearing only underwear.
  楼下，一位妇女趿着人字拖，手里提着个黑色尿壶，身旁的一个男孩子只穿了底裤。
• A car pulled up on the dirt patch in front of Ma's store. In walked a man in white shorts, a white golf shirt and flip-flops.
  一辆小汽车停在马继广小店门前的泥土地上，走进来一位身穿白色短裤，白色高尔夫球衫和夹趾拖鞋的人。
• Pick something practical over something cute, and be careful when it comes to flip-flops and sandals.
  只穿实用的，不穿可爱的，如果要穿凉拖和凉鞋的时候要特别小心。
• Based on the binary mono-stable flip-flops, this paper proposes the design of quaternary mono-stable flip-flops.
  在二值单稳态触发器设计的基础上，提出了四值单稳态触发器的设计方案。
• If the unknown flip-flops exist in a sequential circuit, the test generation of the circuit can not be achieved easily.
  当时序电路中有未确定状态的触发器时，就不能顺利完成该电路的测试生成，因此初始化是时序电路测试生成中的关键问题。
• The reason may be that people tend to grip flip-flops with their toes.
  其原因可能在于人们趋向于用脚趾紧紧夹住人字拖鞋。
• Twenty years ago it was enough to have duty free, a newsagent and flip-flops, says Neil Saunders of retail analysts Verdict Research.
  二十年前，有免税产品、定期刊物塑料人字拖的经销商就已经足够了，英国零售咨询公司（VerdictResearch）尼尔•桑德斯（NeilSaunders）表示。
• Novel current-mode CMOS quaternary edge-triggered flip-flops
  新型电流型CMOS四值边沿触发器设计
• On the one had this is obviously absurd: trying to read a book like this without a good deal of philosophical training is like going on an Arctic expedition in jeans, t-shirt and flip-flops.
  一方面，这显然是荒唐的：在没有任何哲学训练的情况下读这本书简直就像穿着牛崽裤、提恤衫、和拖鞋到北极探险。
• I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip-flops.
  我看到凯蒂海伦穿着军短裤和拖鞋。