lapsing

1. N-COUNT 闪失；过失；失检
   A lapse is a moment or instance of bad behaviour by someone who usually behaves well.
   1. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.
      星期五那天他的表现既不得体，又有失尊严。如此失态非常少有。
2. N-COUNT （一时的）疏忽，大意，开小差
   A lapse of something such as concentration or judgment is a temporary lack of that thing, which can often cause you to make a mistake.
   1. I had a little lapse of concentration in the middle of the race...
      我在比赛中途一时走神。
   2. He was a genius and because of it you could accept lapses of taste...
      由于他是天才，所以品位上偶有差池大家也不会介意。
   3. The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.
      这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
3. VERB 陷入，进入（某种安静或静止状态）
   If you lapse into a quiet or inactive state, you stop talking or being active.
   1. She muttered something unintelligible and lapsed into silence...
      她不知嘟囔了几句什么后就不再开口。
   2. Doris Brown closed her eyes and lapsed into sleep.
      多丽丝·布朗闭上眼睛，安然入睡。
4. VERB （通常指短暂地）进入，陷入（某种说话或行事方式）
   If someone lapses into a particular way of speaking, or behaving, they start speaking or behaving in that way, usually for a short period.
   1. She lapsed into a little girl voice to deliver a nursery rhyme...
      她改用童声唱起童谣来。
   2. Teenagers occasionally find it all too much to cope with and lapse into bad behaviour.
      青少年偶尔会因感到压力太大无所适从而做出不良行为。
   3. Lapse is also a noun.
      
   4. Her lapse into German didn't seem peculiar. After all, it was her native tongue.
      她冒出几句德语并不足为奇。毕竟那是她的母语。
5. N-SING （时间的）间隔
   A lapse of time is a period that is long enough for a situation to change or for people to have a different opinion about it.
   1. ...the restoration of diplomatic relations after a lapse of 24 years...
      时隔24年后外交关系的恢复
   2. There is usually a time lapse between receipt of new information and its publication.
      新信息的接收与发布之间通常会间隔一段时间。
6. VERB （时间）流逝，消逝，推移
   If a period of time lapses, it passes.
   1. New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.
      新的产品和生产工序要经过一段相当长的时间后才能向发展中国家转移。
7. VERB 结束；终止
   If a situation or legal contract lapses, it is allowed to end rather than being continued, renewed, or extended.
   1. Her membership of the Labour Party has lapsed...
      她已不再是工党党员。
   2. Ford allowed the name and trademark to lapse during the Eighties.
      福特在20世纪80年代废止了该名称和商标。
8. VERB 停止信教；背弃信仰；脱离宗教关系
   If a member of a particular religion lapses, they stop believing in it or stop following its rules and practices.
   1. I lapsed in my 20s, returned to it, then lapsed again, while writing the life of historical Jesus...
      我20多岁时曾经停止信教，后来一度又信，再后来撰写历史上耶稣的生平故事时又再脱教。
   2. She calls herself a lapsed Catholic.
      她称自己已不再信仰天主教。

1. Lapsing into their local dialect, the two of them began to talk amicably.
   二人打起乡谈，十分投机。
2. I ask that in light of the lapsing of the stabilization plan with the IMF.
   特别是考虑到，国际货币基金组织（IMF）的稳定计划即将终止。
3. This can take a bit more effort, but once the chains are broken, it seems like the effort required to prevent lapsing back to old behaviors should be minimal.
   这需要付出努力，但是一旦枷锁被打破，就不再需要我们付出很大的努力来防止重新回归到旧的行为了。
4. Researchers have devised algorithms that estimate the likelihood of events such as a particular convict lapsing back into crime after being released from custody, or a particular business start-up going bust.
   研究者已经设计出能够估算出一些事件几率的算法，比如某个罪犯在释放后再次犯罪的几率，或者某家初创企业破产的几率。
5. According to Mr Fernald, this was a result of the lapsing of temporary growth dividends from the 1990s IT revolution.
   弗纳尔德表示，这是上世纪90年代信息技术革命带来的暂时性增长红利消失所导致的。
6. Budget closure: lapsing of authority to incur approved budgetary expenses.
   预算关闭期：指停止使用已批准的预算支出权力的限期。
7. With the lapsing of our old activity of inventing and enacting adventures, Joe Weller and I diverted our wild imaginings on several occasions to a jocular vein.
   我和乔·韦勒已经不再虚构和实施冒险故事，而代之以制造场合性的笑料来消遣时光。
8. She was lapsing in and out of consciousness.
   她处于时醒时迷的阶段。
9. Since the Opium War, China had been lapsing into a semi-colony of the imperialists and had no international status.
   自***战争以来，中国逐渐沦为帝国主义的半殖民地，毫无国际地位可言。
10. The act or an instance of lapsing, as.
    退步的行为或事例，如。
11. I saw the pavement lapsing beneath my feet. Put on your ski before you slide down the chute.
    我看到道路在我脚下滑过。先穿上雪屐再滑下陡坡道。
12. Objective: To study the effect of proteinase in development and lapsing in tonsillitis.
    目的：为探讨蛋白分解酶在扁桃体炎发展和转归中所起的作用。
13. Those who misdoubt the Marxism-thought private-ownership's historical provisionality may see that the right-form has been more and more lapsing from the privately-owned and walking up to the commonly-owned.
    不相信马克思主义关于私有制具有历史暂时性的人们应当注意到，权利形式在私有制的推动下的发展已经越来越背离私有而走向共有。
14. Materials are the pillar and the important foundation of national and society developments. It is always used in certain environment and its function is descended until to damage by environmental in process, needing the solution lapsing and protective problem.
    材料是国家建设和社会发展的支柱和重要基础，材料总是在一定的环境中使用，材料在使用过程中受环境的作用性能下降，直至损坏变质，需解决失效与保护的问题。
15. The time lapsing artificial ageing of six membrane materials with acrylate, PVDF and PTFE top coatings are investigated by a practical environmental simulation.
    本文采用对实际环境进行模拟的人工加速老化方法对表面涂有丙烯酸酯、PVDF（聚偏氟烯）以及PTFE的六种不同的膜材料的老化性能进行了研究。
16. In order to construct the finite modeling of a radar antenna correctly and efficiently with the purpose of finding out the maximal stress and stain to avoid the lapsing of materials, one modeling method for the radar antenna is presented.
    为了正确地建立雷达天线有限元模型，得出雷达天线的最大应力和应变，防止材料失效，提出了雷达天线的建模原理。
17. Other ways also can be used as Structure of Protecting Cable from Lapsing.
    支撑塔上防止悬索脱落还可采用其它方法解决，并应作更深入的研究。
18. The environmental simulation consists of two series of treatment with high time lapsing effect.
    环境模拟的方法由两套具有高度加速老化效果的处理系统组成。
19. However, seen from its primary tendency, legal thought still behaves as the flexible exertion of law on the premise of no lapsing from the nomocracy principle.
    但从法律思维的主流倾向看，法律思维仍然表现为在不背离法治原则的前提下对法律灵活运用。

noun

1. a failure to maintain a higher state

   Synonym:    backslidinglapserelapserelapsingreversionreverting