flail
音標(biāo)：
英音/ fle?l /? ? 美音/ fle?l /

聽聽基本釋意：

見原文：https://engapi.com/article/5023

外刊例句：
With a flailing economy, and his people going hungry, his advancing nuclear weapons programme is “the only card he has left to play”, Yang says.
楊說，在經(jīng)濟(jì)低迷、人民挨餓的情況下，他推進(jìn)的核武器計(jì)劃是“他唯一能打的牌”。
—BBC

Crayfish covered in this film tried to escape up the sides of the steep riverbank, while the occasional live fish jumped out of the water or flailed near its surface, gasping.
被薄膜覆蓋的小龍蝦試圖從陡峭的河岸兩側(cè)逃走，而偶爾有活魚跳出水面或在水面附近掙扎，喘著粗氣。
—New York Times

Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it showed the Government was “flailing around” in its effort to curb small boat crossings.
工黨影子內(nèi)政大臣伊薇特·庫珀表示，這表明政府在遏制小船過境方面“搖擺不定”。
—BBC

基本釋意：
noun
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
亂動(dòng)；（用棍棒）猛擊；（使）大幅波動(dòng)；踉蹌；用連枷打（谷）

同義詞：
thresh,lam,thrash,thresh

短釋義：
Flail originates with the Latin word flagellum, which is a whip. It is also related to the noun flail, a stick with a swinging attachment to it, used to thresh grain. As a verb, it most often refers to arms, but can also involve the whole body, especially if someone is a very wild dancer. Other things can flail as well. If someone admits that his business is flailing, it’s probably lacking direction and not doing very well.
連枷意味著瘋狂地?fù)]舞。如果您被困在荒島上，并且看到遠(yuǎn)處有一艘船，最好在空中揮動(dòng)手臂以引起船長的注意。

長釋義：
Flail originates with the Latin word flagellum, which is a whip. It is also related to the noun flail, a stick with a swinging attachment to it, used to thresh grain. As a verb, it most often refers to arms, but can also involve the whole body, especially if someone is a very wild dancer. Other things can flail as well. If someone admits that his business is flailing, it’s probably lacking direction and not doing very well.
連枷起源于拉丁語flagellum，意思是鞭子。它也與名詞連枷有關(guān)，連枷是一根帶有擺動(dòng)附件的棍子，用于打谷粒。作為動(dòng)詞，它通常指手臂，但也可以涉及整個(gè)身體，特別是如果某人是一個(gè)非?？褚暗奈枵摺Ｆ渌虑橐部赡軙?huì)失敗。如果有人承認(rèn)他的生意正在陷入困境，那么它可能缺乏方向并且做得不好。

文學(xué)例句：
Dark shapes like mushrooms spontaneously arising, arms flailing, signaling me what to do.
像蘑菇一樣的黑色形狀自發(fā)地出現(xiàn)，手臂揮舞著，向我發(fā)出要做什么的信號(hào)。
—Beast Rider by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

The crew were flailing away with their axes.
船員們揮舞著斧子。
—All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Sure enough, there was the little thief, flailing in the water a short distance away.
果然，不遠(yuǎn)處就有小賊在水中撲騰。
—Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

詞源：
flail?(n.)implement for threshing grain, c. 1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which, if it existed, probably is from West Germanic *flagil (source also of Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a West Germanic borrowing of Late Latin flagellum “winnowing tool, flail,” in classical Latin “a whip” (see flagellum).Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
連枷（n.）用于脫粒谷物的工具，c。 1100，可能來自未記錄的古英語 *flegel，如果存在的話，可能來自西日耳曼語 *flagil（也來源于中荷蘭語和低地德語 vlegel、古高地德語 flegel、德語 flegel），是西日耳曼語借用的 Late拉丁語鞭毛“風(fēng)選工具，連枷”，古典拉丁語“鞭子”（參見鞭毛）。相關(guān)條目及更多