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flunk

/fluhngk/US // flʌŋk //UK // (flʌŋk) informal, mainly US, Canadian and NZ //

落榜,落榜了,落选,落落寡欢

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fail in a course or examination.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fail to get a passing mark in: to flunk math.
    • : to give a failing grade to; remove as unqualified from a school or course.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a failure, as in a course or examination.
  1. 1
    • : flunk out, to fail and be unable to continue in: He flunked out of flight school.

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Examples

  • An example of a law that would flunk the rational basis test is one that prohibits people born on Tuesdays from driving.

  • Did President Obama flunk Con Law at his news conference Monday?

  • If Grutter is given more teeth, many affirmative-action programs around the country could flunk constitutional scrutiny.

  • The school is known in wealthy circles as “Dumb White Kids Getting High Together,” but Hilton actually managed to flunk out.

  • I passed everything with the utmost ease—I know the secret now, and am never going 134 to flunk again.

  • Sometimes he felt that he would enjoy, yes, actually, hearing somebody 223 flunk in one of his classes.

  • Most men do, I say, they usually work at it, study at it good enough so they don't flunk out.

  • I wonder if I could do it; seems 's if I would now, but flesh is weak, and I might flunk, and that would settle it.

  • And if I flunk, I have to work in the garden all summer without a single fishing trip.