lapse
【失效、终止;】
🔹单词
lapse
音标:/læps/
美式发音:[læps](读作“拉普斯”)
🔹词性
可作 名词(noun) 或 动词(verb) 使用。
🔹主要意思
🟢 作为名词(noun)
- 疏忽;失误;小过失
→ 指一时的注意力不集中、判断错误或记忆失误。- a lapse in judgment 判断失误
- a memory lapse 记忆空白
- (时间的)流逝
→ 表示一段时间的过去。- after a lapse of five years 经过五年之后
- (权利、合同等的)失效、终止
→ 因时间过去或未履行义务而失效。- The insurance policy has lapsed. 保险已失效。
🟢 作为动词(verb)
- (合同、权利等)终止;失效
- His membership lapsed last year.
他的会员资格去年已失效。
- His membership lapsed last year.
- (逐渐)陷入某种状态
- She lapsed into silence. 她陷入沉默。
- He lapsed into a coma. 他陷入昏迷。
- (时间)流逝
- Several months lapsed before we met again.
几个月过去后我们才再次见面。
- Several months lapsed before we met again.
🔹英文解释
A temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgment;
or the passage of time, or the expiration of a right or contract.
🔹例句
- He apologized for his lapse in judgment.
他为自己的判断失误道歉。 - After a lapse of ten years, they finally met again.
十年之后,他们终于再次相见。 - Her concentration lapsed and she missed the question.
她一走神就错过了那道题。 - The contract will lapse if you don’t renew it.
如果你不续约,合同将失效。
🔹词源小知识
来自拉丁语 lapsus(意为“滑倒、错误”),
与单词 collapse(倒塌)、elapse(时间流逝)同源。