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。
• Clock regulate the operation of a digital system by allowing time for new results to be calculated by logic gates and then capturing the results in flip-flops.
  时钟信号控制着数字系统的操作，它让逻辑门计算新的结果，然后由触发器存储执行结果。
• The output of one flip-flop is the input to the next; the state changes consequently "ripple through" the flip-flops, requiring a time proportional to the length of the counter.
  一个触发器的输出是下一个的输入，因而状态的变化以波动形式通过各个触发器，所需时间与计数器的长度成正比。
• Denim, T-shirts and flip-flops all'90s phenoms are only acceptable in the most casual of work environments.
  粗斜纹棉布，圆领衬衣，拖鞋等等90后的特征，在非常随意的工作环境中才是可以的。
• Do not wear flip-flops or sneakers, unless you are interviewing to be a lead singer for a rock band.
  除非你是去面试摇滚乐队主唱，不然面试就别穿人字拖或运动鞋。
• I would not expect people to wear shorts or flip-flops but I would never inspect what people are wearing.
  我估计不会有人穿短裤或夹趾拖鞋，但我也决不会去检查大家的衣着。
• 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。
• Novel current-mode CMOS quaternary edge-triggered flip-flops
  新型电流型CMOS四值边沿触发器设计
• 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。
• When we approached her on the street in Washington, D.C., she was on her way to work and wearing flip-flops.
  当我们在华盛顿特区的大街上走近她的时候，她正在上班的路上并且穿着拖鞋。