tomach a/iter having a baby.产后只有通过锻炼才能使
腹部收平。◊ The sails /umg Zimpdy m the _/7at caZm (=conditions at sea
when there is no wind and the water is completely level).风平浪静，风帆无力地垂挂
着。2 (of land 土地）without any slopes or
hills 平坦
的：The road stretched ahead across the flat landscape. 公路向前延伸，经过一片平坦的地。3 (of surfaces表面) smooth and even; without
lumps or holes 平滑的：
J need a/Iatsw/ace to write on. 需要一个平面在iffi写
字。◊ We/ound a 〖arge/!at
n?cfc to sit on.義if]找了一土吳
可以坐的大而平滑的石头。
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NOT HI如不高 4 broad
but not very high 扁平的：
Chapattis are a kind of flat Indian bread.
* chapatti — 种印度薄饼。◊/tot s/i〇€5 (= with no heels or
very low ones)平跟鞋；平底鞋
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■DULL 枯燥 5 dull; lacking interest
or enthusiasm 枯燥
的；左逄的;缺乏热情的：He /eZt very /fat a如r his jhends had gpne home.他的朋友们回家后，他感到兴味
索然。
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VOICE 嗓丨.6 not showing much
emotion; not changing much in tone 平淡的；单调的：Her voice was
_/7at and expression's.―如声音平涣而呆板。
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COLOURS/PICTURES 颜色阁画 7 very smooth，with no contrast
between light and dark, and giving no impres- sion
ofdepth色彩单调的；无反差的；无景深的：AcryHc paints
can be used to create large, fiat blocks of colour. 烯颜料可用来创作单一色调的大幅图块。
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BUSINESS 商.业 8 not
very successful because very little is being sold不景气的；萧条的;生意清淡的：The housing market has been flat for months.
好几个月处于抿迷状态^
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REFUSAL/DENIAL 拒绝；否认9[〇门丨丫66^「6 11〇11〇]11〇1
allowing discussion or argument;
definite 断然的；绝对
的：Her request was met with a/?at re/usai.她的请求被
断然拒绝。◊ He gave one reporter’s ques
tion•他对一名记者提问直截了当地笮复“不！”
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IN. MUSIC 苦乐 1 ❹ used after the name of a
note to mean a note a semiton.e/half
tone lower 降音的；降
半音的：That note shou/ci be B加t, not a那个吾遠该4 ‘
B 音，而不是 B 音。一picture 〇 music RT31] sharp
—compare
natural adj.{9) 11 below the correct pitch (= how high or low a
note'sounds)低于标准音高
的；偏低的：TTie high notes
were dighrfy jat.这些高音
略为偏低。EH3 SHARP
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DRINK 饮料 12 no longer having bubbles
in it; not fresh
‘:走了 今的；不新鲜的：TTie soda was
warm and had 容one
/Eat.这汽水是温的，已走了气。
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► FE'ET'足 15 with no natural raised curves underneath 扁 平的；足弓乎坦的一see also FLAT-FOOTED ► flat-ness noun [U] IT»TO1 and .that^ 'flat! [BrE, informal) that is my final
decision and I will not change my mind 这就是最后决定：can’t go and that’s 你不能 '去，：就这样! ■
as ,flat as a ’pancake compietelyilat 完 :,余平的一more at back n., spin n.
■ noun
►.ROOMS
房间 1 [Cl (8/f) a set of rooms for living in,
including a kitchen, usually on one floor of a building -套房间.；公寓；单元_房：Do you iive in a
/lat or a house?你住的是公寓还是如立住宅？ ◊
TTiey’rt renting a
月imished/kit on the third月oor.他们租了四楼一套带家
具的公寓。◊ a ground-/!oor/to: ——的一套单元房◊ a new Wocfc —栋新建尚公寓楼◊ Many iarge oZd
houses have been.converted
into/?ats.许多大恥老房子已
改建成单元房。◊ C/iiidren介om the/lafs (= the block of flats) across the street
were pZaying outside.街对面，公寓
楼里的儿童正在卢夕卜玩耍。一picture o page
R23 — compare
apartment
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LEVEL PART 平面部分 2
[sing.] the 〜of sth the flat level part of sth .(矣技d頭知分：He beat on the
door wfth t/ie 〇/ Ziis /land ■他用打'门。o the
flat of a sword
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LAND ±地 3 [C, usually pi.] an area of low flat land, especially near water ( 充 指水边的） 平地； 低洼地 ： salt 月ats 盐滩 一 see also mudflat
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HORSE RACtNG 赛马 4 the flat, the Flat [sing] (8/f) the season
for racing horses on flat ground with no jumps 无障碍平地赛马季节
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IN MUSIC ■音乐 5 [C] a note played
a.SEMiTONE/HALF tone lower
than the note that is named. The written symbol is (l»).降半音；降音；降号：There are no sharps or/[ats
in t/ie fcey 〇/ C major. * C大调中没有升半音和降
半音。E£Q sharp — compare natural n. (2)
►■1\1?£.轮胎€[(：](已0«：/(7//>^/\//\卬£)已印^1；1131：1135 1〇513江，
usually because of a hole瘪了的轮胎；撒了气的轮胎： We got a_/7at on the way home.我们在回家的路上有一个
轮胎漏气瘪了。◊ We had to stop to
_/ibc a /lat.我们不得
不停车修一下撒了气的轮胎。
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IN THEAT明剧院 7 [C]
(tec/m/a?/ 术语）a vertical section of scenery used on a theatre stage 单面布景.；布景屏
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SHOES — 8 flats [pi.] = flatties
|0jQ
on the
flat (Srf)
on level ground, without hills or jumps (= for example in horse racing)為丰地上.…,
madv. [comparative fiat-ter, no superlative)
hkEVEL 水-f'地 1
spread out in a level, straight position, especially against another surface
(..尤指贝占另一表
面）书真地，平躺地：Lie _/7at and breat/ie
deep丨y.〒:_ 做深.呼吸。、◊ TVieypresseti themseZves/Zat against t/ie tunneZ waH 出 the train approached•火每接近时他们身 体紧贴着隧道壁。 .
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REFUSING/DgNYING 拒绝；否认 2 (阶£) (AMwf
_flat 'out) (/•/?/om7<7/)
in a definite and direct way 断然；直截.亇当
地：She told me flat she would not speak to me again. 她直截了当地跟我说她再不会理我T。made them a reasonable offer but they turned, it down flat.
出一个合理建议，但是他们断然拒绝了。
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IN MUSIC ff 3 lower
than the correct pitch (= how high or low a note
sounds)低于标准音髙：He sings flat aH the time.他总是唱低 了音。Pina sharp
ITiT^I
fall 'flat if a joke, a story, or an event falls flat, it completely fails to amuse people or to have the
effect that was intended (笑话、故事、事件等）完全失败，
根本未达到预期效果fall flat on your 'face 1 to fall so that you are lying on your front 摔迢I 下 2
to fail completely, usually causing embarrassment (颜面丢尽 地）彻底矣败：His next television venture/eZZ/tat on its /ace.他的下一个电视项目丢人现眼，彻底失败了。flat 'broke (BrE also stony 'broke) (informaf) completely broke穷得一个子儿也没有；一贫如洗；穷得叮当响flat 'out (informal) 1 as
fast or as hard as possible ^3^;全 力以赴：Workers are working
flat out to meet the rise in demand/or new cdrs.为满足对新轿车需求的增加,,工人
.正全力以赴地工作。.2 («/?ec/fl//y in
a definite and
direct way; completely i截了g断J to〖d him_/?at out •我斩钉截铁地吿诉他“不”。◊ ft’s a 30-year
mortgage we just _/Iat out can’t handZe.这是一宗我丨门根
本无法处理的30年按揭贷款业务。in ... 'flat (/Vj/omw/) used with an expression of time to say that
sth happened or was done very quickly, in no more than the time stated (与表达肘间的词语连用，表示发生或做
得很快）才…，只用了…，整：77iey cfcan^ed the whed in three minutes flat (= in exactly three
minutes),
仅用三分钟就换了轮胎。
mverb (-tt-) [V] {/KustralE, NZ£) to live in or share a
flat/ apartment ft公寓；合ft公寓：My sisterZoe/[ats in Auddcmd.我妹妹佐伊住在奥克兰的一栋公寓里。
flat-bed /'flaetbed/ noun 1 = flatbed scanner 2 (also flatbed 'truck, .flatbed 'trailer) {especially NAmi) an