• n. 蒼蠅拍；輕佻女子；剛學(xué)飛的小禽

俚語詞。來自flap, 撲騰，拍打。用來形容比較唐突無禮的女子，或新潮女郎。

flapper (n.)

1560s, "one who or that which flaps," agent noun from flap (v.). Sense of "forward young woman" is 1921 slang, but the exact connection is disputed. Perhaps from flapper "young wild-duck or partridge" (1747), with reference to flapping wings while learning to fly, many late 19c. examples of which are listed in Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1900), including one that defines it as "A young partridge unable to fly. Applied in joke to a girl of the bread-and-butter age."

Other suggested sources include a late 19c. northern English dialectal use of the word for "teen-age girl" (on notion of one with the hair not yet put up), or an earlier meaning "prostitute" (1889), which is perhaps from dialectal flap "young woman of loose character" (1610s). Any or all of these might have converged in the 1920s sense. Wright also has flappy, of persons, "wild, unsteady, flighty," with the note that it also was "Applied to a person's character, as 'a flappy lass,'" and further on he lists flappy sket (n.) "an immoral woman." In Britain the word took on political tones in reference to the debate over voting rights.

"Flapper" is the popular press catch-word for an adult woman worker, aged twenty-one to thirty, when it is a question of giving her the vote under the same conditions as men of the same age. ["Punch," Nov. 30, 1927]

1. Isn't there any romance or adventure without having a flapper in it?

如果沒有甲板在上面就沒有任何的冒險或浪漫?

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2. The invention relates to swing flapper used to kill mosquito and fly.

本發(fā)明涉及一種用于捕殺蚊蠅的蚊甩子.

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3. And theoretical basis is presented to further apply nozzle - flapper valve to two - stage electro - hydraulic servo valve .

較快的響應(yīng)速度;為進一步將其應(yīng)用于兩級 電液伺服 閥提供了設(shè)計和實驗依據(jù).

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4. Is revolving flapper's picture through many plugs, contains explains the self - respect self - respect this subject.

通過多個插頭圍繞著插板的畫面, 含蓄來說明 自尊 自愛的這一主題.

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5. Louise Brooks, the archetypical American flapper, was photographed by Eugene Robert Richee in 1928.

這是1928年攝影師尤金.羅伯特為當(dāng)時名噪一時的輕佻女郎露易絲. 布魯克斯拍攝的一張照片.

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