| 单词 | flake |
| 释义 | flake (fleɪk ) Word forms: flakes , flaking , flaked 1. countable noun [noun NOUN] A flake is a small thin piece of something, especially one that has broken off a larger piece. ...flakes of paint. Large flakes of snow began swiftly to fall. ...oat flakes. Synonyms: chip, scale, layer, peeling 2. verb If something such as paint flakes, small thin pieces of it come off. They can see how its colours have faded and where paint has flaked. [VERB] Flake off means the same as flake. The surface corrosion was worst where the paint had flaked off. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. ergative verb If a food such as fish flakes, or if you flake it, it breaks into small thin pieces. Fry until the fish flakes. [VERB] Skin, bone and flake the fish. [VERB noun] ...flaked almonds. [VERB-ed] Phrasal verbs: flake off flake [sense 2] flake out phrasal verb If you flake out, you collapse, go to sleep, or totally relax because you are very tired. [informal] If he flakes out before I get back, just cover him with a blanket. [VERB PARTICLE] Ireland is not for you if you want to flake out on a beach. [VERB PARTICLE] Collocations: gold flake The customer after me paid in gold flakes. Times,Sunday Times Greasy wool was used to trap gold flakes washing past from the alluvial deposits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gold flakes were being found in the creek, so the question was, where was the gold coming from. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 小薄片 尤指碎片 Japanese: 破片 |
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