	low buildings with flat roofs 平顶矮建筑物
	People used to think the earth was flat. 人们曾经认为地球是平的。
	Exercise is the only way to get a flat stomach after having a baby. 产后只有通过锻炼才能使腹部收平。
	The sails hung limply in the flat calm(= 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.	平坦的without any slopes or hills

The road stretched ahead across the flat landscape.

公路向前延伸，经过一片平坦的地。

3.	平滑的smooth and even; without lumps or holes

	I need a flat surface to write on. 我需要一个平面在上面写字。
	We found a large flat rock to sit on. 我们找了一块可以坐的大而平滑的石头。

不高not high

4.	扁平的broad but not very high

	Chapattis are a kind of flat Indian bread. chapatti 是一种印度薄饼。
	flat shoes(= with no heels or very low ones) 平跟鞋；平底鞋

枯燥dull

5.	枯燥的；无趣的；缺乏热情的dull; lacking interest or enthusiasm

He felt very flat after his friends had gone home.

他的朋友们回家后，他感到兴味索然。

嗓音voice

6.	平淡的；单调的not showing much emotion; not changing much in tone

Her voice was flat and expressionless.

她的声音平淡而呆板。

颜色；图画colours/pictures

7.	色彩单调的；无反差的；无景深的very smooth, with no contrast between light and dark, and giving no impression of depth

Acrylic paints can be used to create large, flat blocks of colour.

丙烯颜料可用来创作单一色调的大幅图块。

商业business

8.	不景气的；萧条的；生意清淡的not very successful because very little is being sold

The housing market has been flat for months.

房屋市场已有好几个月处于低迷状态。

拒绝；否认refusal/denial

9.	[obn] 断然的；绝对的not allowing discussion or argument; definite

	Her request was met with a flat refusal. 她的请求被断然拒绝。
	He gave a flat ‘No!’ to one reporter's question. 他对一名记者的提问直截了当地答复“不！”

音乐in music

10.	降音的；降半音的used after the name of a note to mean a note a semitone/half tone lower

That note should be B flat, not B.

那个音应该是降 B 音，而不是 B 音。

11.	低于标准音高的；偏低的below the correct pitch(= how high or low a note sounds)

The high notes were slightly flat.

这些高音略为偏低。

饮料drink

12.	走了气的；不新鲜的no longer having bubbles in it; not fresh

The soda was warm and had gone flat.

这汽水是温的，已走了气。

电池battery

13.	电用完了的unable to supply any more electricity

轮胎tyre

14.	瘪了的；撒了气的not containing enough air, usually because of a hole

足feet

15.	扁平的；足弓平坦的with no natural raised curves underneath

IDM

You can't go and that's flat!

你不能去，就这样！

and thats flat!

(informal)

这就是最后决定that is my final decision and I will not change my mind

You can't go and that's flat!

你不能去，就这样！

as flat as a pancake

完全平的completely flat

房间rooms

1.	[c] 一套房间；公寓；单元房a set of rooms for living in, including a kitchen, usually on one floor of a building

	Do you live in a flat or a house? 你住的是公寓还是独立住宅？
	They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor. 他们租了四楼一套带家具的公寓。
	a ground-floor flat 一楼的一套单元房
	a new block of flats 一栋新建的公寓楼
	Many large old houses have been converted into flats. 许多大的老房子已改建成单元房。
	Children from the flats(= the block of flats) across the street were playing outside. 街对面公寓楼里的儿童正在户外玩耍。

平面部分level part

2.	[sing] the ~ of sth （某物的）平面部分the flat level part of sth

	He beat on the door with the flat of his hand. 他用手掌打门。
	the flat of a sword 剑面

土地land

3.	[c][usupl] （尤指水边的）平地；低洼地an area of low flat land, especially near water

salt flats

盐滩

赛马horse racing

4.	[sing] 无障碍平地赛马季节the season for racing horses on flat ground with no jumps

音乐in music

5.	[c] 降半音；降音；降号a note played a semitone/half tone lower than the note that is named. The written symbol is (?).

There are no sharps or flats in the key of C major.

C 大调中没有升半音和降半音。

轮胎tyre

6.	[c] 瘪了的轮胎；撒了气的轮胎a tyre that has lost air, usually because of a hole

	We got a flat 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 fix a flat. 我们只得停车修一下撒了气的轮胎。

剧院in theatre

7.	[c] 平面布景；布景屏a vertical section of scenery used on a theatre stage

鞋shoes

8.	[pl] (informal) 平跟鞋；平底鞋shoes with a very low heel

a pair of flats

一双平跟鞋

IDM

on the flat

在平地上on level ground, without hills or jumps(= for example in horse racing)

adv.

水平地level

1.	（尤指贴着另一表面）平直地，平躺地spread out in a level, straight position, especially against another surface

	Lie flat and breathe deeply. 平躺做深呼吸。
	They pressed themselves flat against the tunnel wall as the train approached. 火车接近时他们身体紧贴着隧道壁。

拒绝；否认refusing/denying

2.	(informal) 断然；直截了当地in a definite and direct way

	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了。
	I made them a reasonable offer but they turned it down flat. 我向他们提出一个合理报价，但是他们断然拒绝了。

音乐in music

3.	低于标准音高lower than the correct pitch(= how high or low a note sounds)

He sings flat all the time.

他总是唱低了音。

IDM

fall flat

（笑话、故事、事件等）完全失败，根本未达到预期效果if a joke, a story, or an eventfalls flat , it completely fails to amuse people or to have the effect that was intended

His next television venture fell flat on its face.

他的下一个电视项目丢人现眼，彻底失败了。

fall flat on your face

摔趴下to fall so that you are lying on your front

（颜面丢尽地）彻底失败to fail completely, usually causing embarrassment

His next television venture fell flat on its face.

他的下一个电视项目丢人现眼，彻底失败了。

flat broke

(informal)

穷得一个子儿也没有；一贫如洗；穷得叮当响completely broke(= without money)

Workers are working flat out to meet the rise in demand for new cars.

为满足对新轿车需求的增加，工人正全力以赴地工作。

	I told him flat out ‘No’. 我斩钉截铁地告诉他“不”。
	It's a 30-year mortgage we just flat out can't handle. 这是一宗我们根本无法供得起的 30 年按揭贷款业务。

flat out

全速；全力以赴as fast or as hard as possible

Workers are working flat out to meet the rise in demand for new cars.

为满足对新轿车需求的增加，工人正全力以赴地工作。

直截了当；断然in a definite and direct way; completely

	I told him flat out ‘No’. 我斩钉截铁地告诉他“不”。
	It's a 30-year mortgage we just flat out can't handle. 这是一宗我们根本无法供得起的 30 年按揭贷款业务。

They changed the wheel in three minutes flat(= in only three minutes) .

他们仅用三分钟就换好了轮胎。

in… flat

(informal)

（与表达时间的词语连用，表示发生或做得很快）才…，只用了…，整used with an expression of time to say that sth happened or was done very quickly, in no more than the time stated

They changed the wheel in three minutes flat(= in only three minutes) .

他们仅用三分钟就换好了轮胎。

1.	[i] 住公寓；合住公寓to live in or share a flat/apartment

My sister Zoe flats in Auckland.

我妹妹佐伊住在奥克兰的一栋公寓里。