n. 过失, 流逝, 失效

vi. 犯错, 堕落, 减退, 消失, 流逝

vt. 使失效

[经] (权利,时间等的)消失, 失效

Lapse \Lapse\ (l[a^]ps), n. [L. lapsus, fr. labi, p. p. lapsus,
to slide, to fall: cf. F. laps. See {Sleep}.]
1. A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or
imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted
usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible.
--Rambler.

Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long
centuries for his expected revenue of fame. --I.
Taylor.

2. A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight
deviation from truth or rectitude.

To guard against those lapses and failings to which
our infirmities daily expose us. --Rogers.

3. (Law) The termination of a right or privilege through
neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through
failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a
right or privilege.

4. (Theol.) A fall or apostasy.


Lapse \Lapse\, v. t.
1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to
pass.

An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing
the term of law. --Ayliffe.

2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or
catch, as an offender. [Obs.]

For which, if be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear. --Shak.


Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lapsed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lapsing}.]
1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly
restricted to figurative uses.

A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those
northern nations from whom we are descended.
--Swift.

Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites,
has lapsed into the burlesque character. --Addison.

2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to
fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a
fault by inadvertence or mistake.

To lapse in fullness
Is sorer than to lie for need. --Shak.

3. (Law)
(a) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or
from the original destination, by the omission,
negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a
legatee, etc.
(b) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.

If the archbishop shall not fill it up within
six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
--Ayliffe.