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fizzle

/fiz-uhl/US // ˈfɪz əl //UK // (ˈfɪzəl) //

咝咝声,咝咝作响,咝咝声响,泡影

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    fiz·zled, fiz·zling.

    • : to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
    • : Informal. to fail ignominiously after a good start: The reform movement fizzled out because of poor leadership.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fizzling, hissing, or sputtering.
    • : Informal. a failure; fiasco.

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Examples

  • Robin had so much energy, the electricity from your electrical device would fizzle.

  • Could Occupy Wall Street yet prove a harbinger rather than a fizzle?

  • He predicted that without more mobilization and pressure from outside, reform could “fizzle.”

  • But the thing about phenoms is they can come in hot and then fizzle into a lower voltage of play.

  • If U.S.-Pakistan cooperation were in fact to fizzle, clearly such operations would be compromised.

  • He was a fizzle and a stick, he knew it, he knew nothing else, and there is an undercurrent of bitterness in him.

  • But, as his rhyme ended with such an ignominious fizzle, he hurried away with a snort of disgust.

  • “And I know you labor under a mistake,” said Fizzle, elevating his chin, and folding his arms pugnaciously over his striped vest.

  • "I am sorry that it has been such a fizzle," she turned to him with a sort of shy, girlish friendliness and impulsiveness.

  • A match lit up the darkness; he caught the well-known purr and fizzle of grains of incense.