lapse
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /læps/
美 /læps/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A temporary failure; a slip.
— memory lapse
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A decline or fall in standards.
— The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity
- A pause in continuity.
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An interval of time between events.
— Still onward winds the dreary way; I with it; for I long to prove No lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A fall or apostasy.
动词 v.
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To fall away gradually; to subside.
— This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
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To fall into error or heresy.
— To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
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To become void.
— The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed.
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To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
— ...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
词源 2
From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
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