lapses

英 [ˈlæpsɪz]

美 [ˈlæpsɪz]

n.  小错; (尤指)记错，过失，疏忽; (两件事发生的)间隔时间; 行为失检; (平时表现不错的人一时的)失足
v.  失效; 期满终止; 衰退; 衰弱; (逐渐)消失，结束; 背弃，放弃(宗教信仰)
lapse的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 闪失；过失；失检
  Alapseis a moment or instance of bad behaviour by someone who usually behaves well.
  1. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.
     星期五那天他的表现既不得体，又有失尊严。如此失态非常少有。
• N-COUNT （一时的）疏忽，大意，开小差
  Alapse ofsomething such as concentration or judgment is a temporary lack of that thing, which can often cause you to make a mistake.
  1. I had a little lapse of concentration in the middle of the race...
     我在比赛中途一时走神。
  2. He was a genius and because of it you could accept lapses of taste...
     由于他是天才，所以品位上偶有差池大家也不会介意。
  3. The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.
     这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
• VERB 陷入，进入（某种安静或静止状态）
  If youlapse intoa quiet or inactive state, you stop talking or being active.
  1. She muttered something unintelligible and lapsed into silence...
     她不知嘟囔了几句什么后就不再开口。
  2. Doris Brown closed her eyes and lapsed into sleep.
     多丽丝·布朗闭上眼睛，安然入睡。
• VERB （通常指短暂地）进入，陷入（某种说话或行事方式）
  If someonelapses intoa particular way of speaking, or behaving, they start speaking or behaving in that way, usually for a short period.
  1. She lapsed into a little girl voice to deliver a nursery rhyme...
     她改用童声唱起童谣来。
  2. Teenagers occasionally find it all too much to cope with and lapse into bad behaviour.
     青少年偶尔会因感到压力太大无所适从而做出不良行为。
  3. Lapseis also a noun.
     
  4. Her lapse into German didn't seem peculiar. After all, it was her native tongue.
     她冒出几句德语并不足为奇。毕竟那是她的母语。
• N-SING （时间的）间隔
  Alapse oftime is a period that is long enough for a situation to change or for people to have a different opinion about it.
  1. ...the restoration of diplomatic relations after a lapse of 24 years...
     时隔24年后外交关系的恢复
  2. There is usually a time lapse between receipt of new information and its publication.
     新信息的接收与发布之间通常会间隔一段时间。
• VERB （时间）流逝，消逝，推移
  If a period of timelapses, it passes.
  1. New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.
     新的产品和生产工序要经过一段相当长的时间后才能向发展中国家转移。
• VERB 结束；终止
  If a situation or legal contractlapses, it is allowed to end rather than being continued, renewed, or extended.
  1. Her membership of the Labour Party has lapsed...
     她已不再是工党党员。
  2. Ford allowed the name and trademark to lapse during the Eighties.
     福特在20世纪80年代废止了该名称和商标。
• VERB 停止信教；背弃信仰；脱离宗教关系
  If a member of a particular religionlapses, they stop believing in it or stop following its rules and practices.
  1. I lapsed in my 20s, returned to it, then lapsed again, while writing the life of historical Jesus...
     我20多岁时曾经停止信教，后来一度又信，再后来撰写历史上耶稣的生平故事时又再脱教。
  2. She calls herself a lapsed Catholic.
     她称自己已不再信仰天主教。

双语例句

• The reasons Mr Buffett gave for his mistakes were not poor advice, or lapses by his managers, but his own thumb-sucking, childish behaviour and I simply was wrong.
  巴菲特对自己的过失给出的原因并非糟糕的建议或者管理人员的疏忽，而是他自己吮吸拇指、幼稚行为以及我就是错了。
• If the policy lapses after the grace period, the insured may reinstate the contract under certain conditions.
  若在宽限期之后保单失效，被保险人可以在一定条件下恢复原保险合同。
• It was a good performance despite some lapses.
  这是一个非常好的演出，尽毛有一些小的缺陷。
• If no time is stated, the offer lapses at the end of a reasonable time.
  如果在时间上没有声明，要约便在合理期限失效。
• Some might argue that on the Richter scale of ethical lapses this does not rate high.
  一些人可能认为，从道德败坏的里氏（richter）震级来看，这样做的震级并不高。
• Sleep-deprived people also showed reduced activity in brain regions involved in visual processing during attention lapses.
  缺乏睡眠的人还显示出，在注意力缺失期间，包括视觉处理在内的大脑区域的活动也会降低。
• Minor lapses and barely-detectable coding errors such as misaligned pointers or uninitialized variables can have enormous consequences.
  一些较小的失误和几乎不被发觉的编码错误――比如指针偏差或者变量未初始化――可能会带来严重的后果。
• There have been security lapses despite efforts to protect the public.
  尽管花了大力气保障公众的安全，但保安措施上仍有疏漏。
• You can't have lapses like that, especially on the road.
  你不能有像那样的失误，尤其在客场。
• Idealism was sharpened by feelings of guilt over earlier ethical lapses.
  对之前背弃道德的悔恨感加深了理想主义。