flunk
verb /flʌŋk/
/flʌŋk/
(informal, especially North American English)动词形式
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they flunk | /flʌŋk/ /flʌŋk/ |
he / she / it flunks | /flʌŋks/ /flʌŋks/ |
past simple flunked | /flʌŋkt/ /flʌŋkt/ |
past participle flunked | /flʌŋkt/ /flʌŋkt/ |
-ing form flunking | /ˈflʌŋkɪŋ/ /ˈflʌŋkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] flunk (something) to fail an exam, a test or a course
(考试、测验等)失败,不及格 - I flunked math in second grade.
我二年级时数学不及格。
Topics Difficulty and failurec2, Educationc2- He'd flunked every exam he'd ever sat.
他参加的所有考试都不及格。 - The students who are worried usually aren't the ones who will flunk.
担心的学生通常不是会不及格的人。
- I flunked math in second grade.
- [transitive] flunk somebody to make somebody fail an exam, a test, or a course by giving them a low mark
给(某人)不及格 - She's flunked 13 of the 18 students.
18 个学生她给了 13 个不及格。
- She's flunked 13 of the 18 students.
词源early 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘back down, fail utterly’; originally US): perhaps related to funk ‘state of fear or panic’ or to US flink ‘be a coward’, perhaps a variant of flinch.