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    flounder查询结果如下:

    音标:['flaʊndər] 现在分词:floundering
    过去式:floundered 过去分词:floundered
    名词复数:flounder 第三人称单数:flounders

    基本释义/说明:v.挣扎;踌躇;笨拙而错乱地说或做
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    vi.
    ①(在泥中、雪中)肢体乱动,急切辗转,挣扎;
    The fish floundered on the river bank.
    鱼在河岸上乱动.
    The horse and its rider floundered through the deep snow.
    那匹马和它的骑者在深雪中挣扎.
    ②[比喻]搞糟,弄乱,发慌
    -扩展释义
    n.
    1. 比目鱼,鲽[C]
    The cold waters of the northern Pacific and the still, shallow inlets are also rich in flounder, tuna, hablibut, shrimp and crab
    北太平洋的寒冷海水和宁静而浅的海湾,还盛产比目鱼、金枪鱼、庸鲽、虾和蟹。
    vi.
    1. 挣扎,2. 错乱地做事(或说话)
    vt. 【计算机】
    挣扎
    【动物】 【鱼类】
    鲆鲽
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:verb

    例句2. you may find yourself floundering as you try to answer a question you have not really understood’

    -flounder的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    that flounders; that moves with awkward struggles || (figuratively) (of a speech) moving from topic to topic, not focused
    “The readers were expecting things to be a little more direct, and so they’re probably feeling a bit flounderish.”
    “I had a big flounderish diatribe written up, but this isn’t the place for it.”
    Resembling a flounder.

    名词 变体/同根词

    One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction. || Someone who fishes for flounder.
    “Many bands have a habit of following up a great album with a flounderer.”
    “And Mr. Kim’s somber performance evokes the complicated psychology of a flounderer whose decisions are spontaneous, experimental leaps into the dark.”
    “Advocaat clearly had had enough of the French flounderer and hauled him off after 71 minutes, sending Gordon Durie on in his place.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    flounder的第三人称单数形式
    “That day, I had flounders, sea trout, roach, dace, crabs, grey mullet, bream and bass out of the same swim.”
    “Sometimes a firm flounders, and its owners seek to recover some fraction of their investment by selling the firm.”
    “The sandy seabed is popular with photographers seeking flying gurnards, flounders and cuttlefish.”
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