Lapse

(noun.) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; 'a lapse of three weeks between letters'.

(verb.) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards.

(verb.) end, at least for a long time; 'The correspondence lapsed'.

(verb.) let slip; 'He lapsed his membership'.

录入:佩内洛普

• But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The air, the movement in the court, the lapse of time, or the combination of these things recovers him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You needn't be so rude, it's only a 'lapse of lingy', as Mr. Davis says, retorted Amy, finishing Jo with her Latin. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The mere lapse of time by itself does nothing, either for or against natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She lifted her heavy eyes and saw him lapse suddenly away, on a sudden, unknown tide, and the waves broke over her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I asked leave to-- He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The Greeks and Latins lapsed very easily again into republics, and so did the Aryans in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He spoke regretfully and lapsed for a moment into his weary condition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But he soon lapsed again and took control much as before. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She had lapsed into an easy and dignified calm, far removed from the intensity of life in her words of solicitude for Clym's safety. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And that thus the suit lapses and melts away? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But here was sleep, and peace, and perfect lapsing out. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Gerald was becoming dim again, lapsing out of him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Ursula, left alone, felt as if everything were lapsing out. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But she could not be herself, she DARED not come forth quite nakedly to his nakedness, abandoning all adjustment, lapsing in pure faith with him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• All the world was lapsing into a grey wish-wash of nothingness, she had no contact and no connection anywhere. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

编辑:苏珊娜