中文翻译与英英解释 | n.
1.时间的消逝[推移，间隔]。
2.缓流。
3.错失，过失，小错。
4.行为失检，偏离正道；堕落。
5.废除；【法律】(权利等的)丧失，消失。
6. (气温，气压等的)骤降，下降。
7.【物理学】垂直梯度。
短语和例子
after a lapse of five years 事隔五年之后。 lapse of time 时光的流逝，一段时间。 with the lapse of time 随着时间的过去。 the lapse of a stream 溪水的缓流。 a lapse of attention 一时疏忽。 a lapse of memory 记错。 a lapse of the pen 笔误。 a lapse of the tongue 失言。 a lapse into crime 犯罪。 a moral lapse 道德败坏。 a lapse from respectability 有失体面。 a lapse from virtue 堕落；违背道德的行为。
vi.
1.(时间)悄悄流逝 (away)。
2.退步 (away；back)；堕落；犯罪，陷入，堕入。
3.【法律】(权利、任期等)终止，失效；【法律】转归 (to)。
4.塌陷。
短语和例子
lapse backward 落后。 lapse into ruin 塌陷成一片废墟。 lapse into vice 陷入罪恶活动，变坏。 lapse from good manners 行为渐渐变坏。 The conversation lapsed. 谈话停止了。 The tenure of the office has lapsed. 任期届满。
vt.
使失效，废止。 lapse a policy 废止一项政策。
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| a failure to maintain a higher state
同义词：backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting,
| | a mistake resulting from inattention
同义词：oversight,
| | a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
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| go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
同义词：relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back,
| | drop to a lower level, as in one''s morals or standards
同义词：backslide,
| | end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
| | pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
同义词：sink, pass,
| | pass by; "three years elapsed"
同义词：elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along,
| | let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
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例句与用法 | 1. | I saw the pavement lapsing beneath my feet .
我看到道路在我脚下滑过。
| | 2. | The office now seems to have lapsed .
目前这一职位似乎已不存在了。
| | 3. | Grace lapsed into unwonted sedateness .
格雷丝变得异常严肃起来。
| | 4. | She had lapsed into an easy and dignified calm .
她已经恢复了平静庄重的态度。
| | 5. | The boy's interest soon lapsed .
那孩子的兴趣不久便消失了。
| | 6. | His mood of contentment was beginning to lapse .
他怡然自得的心情渐渐消失了。
| | 7. | After the war it all lapsed .
在战后它就全部云消雾散了。
| | 8. | He tried to say, but his voice kept lapsing .
他是想说这句话，可已经抖得语不成声了。
| | 9. | The house lapsed into ruin .
那房屋塌陷成一堆废墟。
| | 10. | The tenure of the office has lapsed .
任期届满。
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