flail
音标：
英音/ fleɪl / 美音/ fleɪl /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
With a flailing economy, and his people going hungry, his advancing nuclear weapons programme is “the only card he has left to play”, Yang says.
杨说，在经济低迷、人民挨饿的情况下，他推进的核武器计划是“他唯一能打的牌”。
—BBC
Crayfish covered in this film tried to escape up the sides of the steep riverbank, while the occasional live fish jumped out of the water or flailed near its surface, gasping.
被薄膜覆盖的小龙虾试图从陡峭的河岸两侧逃走，而偶尔有活鱼跳出水面或在水面附近挣扎，喘着粗气。
—New York Times
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it showed the Government was “flailing around” in its effort to curb small boat crossings.
工党影子内政大臣伊薇特·库珀表示，这表明政府在遏制小船过境方面“摇摆不定”。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
乱动；（用棍棒）猛击；（使）大幅波动；踉跄；用连枷打（谷）
同义词：
thresh,lam,thrash,thresh
短释义：
Flail originates with the Latin word flagellum, which is a whip. It is also related to the noun flail, a stick with a swinging attachment to it, used to thresh grain. As a verb, it most often refers to arms, but can also involve the whole body, especially if someone is a very wild dancer. Other things can flail as well. If someone admits that his business is flailing, it’s probably lacking direction and not doing very well.
连枷意味着疯狂地挥舞。如果您被困在荒岛上，并且看到远处有一艘船，最好在空中挥动手臂以引起船长的注意。
长释义：
Flail originates with the Latin word flagellum, which is a whip. It is also related to the noun flail, a stick with a swinging attachment to it, used to thresh grain. As a verb, it most often refers to arms, but can also involve the whole body, especially if someone is a very wild dancer. Other things can flail as well. If someone admits that his business is flailing, it’s probably lacking direction and not doing very well.
连枷起源于拉丁语flagellum，意思是鞭子。它也与名词连枷有关，连枷是一根带有摆动附件的棍子，用于打谷粒。作为动词，它通常指手臂，但也可以涉及整个身体，特别是如果某人是一个非常狂野的舞者。其他事情也可能会失败。如果有人承认他的生意正在陷入困境，那么它可能缺乏方向并且做得不好。
文学例句：
Dark shapes like mushrooms spontaneously arising, arms flailing, signaling me what to do.
像蘑菇一样的黑色形状自发地出现，手臂挥舞着，向我发出要做什么的信号。
—Beast Rider by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
The crew were flailing away with their axes.
船员们挥舞着斧子。
—All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Sure enough, there was the little thief, flailing in the water a short distance away.
果然，不远处就有小贼在水中扑腾。
—Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
词源：
flail (n.)implement for threshing grain, c. 1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which, if it existed, probably is from West Germanic *flagil (source also of Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a West Germanic borrowing of Late Latin flagellum “winnowing tool, flail,” in classical Latin “a whip” (see flagellum).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
连枷（n.）用于脱粒谷物的工具，c。 1100，可能来自未记录的古英语 *flegel，如果存在的话，可能来自西日耳曼语 *flagil（也来源于中荷兰语和低地德语 vlegel、古高地德语 flegel、德语 flegel），是西日耳曼语借用的 Late拉丁语鞭毛“风选工具，连枷”，古典拉丁语“鞭子”（参见鞭毛）。相关条目及更多
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