[字彙] flounder (v) 失敗
你知道 flounder 是一種魚嗎?
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September 13, 2010
Word of the Day
flounder \FLOUN-der\
DEFINITION
verb
1 : to struggle to move or obtain footing : thrash about wildly
2 : to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
EXAMPLE
I'm not so sure they actually know what they are doing. They appear just to
be floundering about.
DID YOU KNOW?
Despite the fact that "flounder" is a relatively common English verb, its
origins in the language remain obscure. It is thought that it may be an
alteration of an older verb, "founder." To founder is to become disabled, to
give way or collapse, or to come to grief or fail. In the case of a
waterborne vessel, to founder is to sink. The oldest of these senses of
"founder," "to become disabled," was also used, particularly in reference to
a horse and its rider, for the act of stumbling violently or collapsing. It
may have been this sense of "founder" that, some 200 years later, appeared in
altered form as "flounder" in the sense of "to stumble."
補充
flounder 圖片，一種扁平魚 (flatfish)
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