lapsed的意思|lapsed的解释-里氏词典

lapsed [læps]

a. 丧失的, 堕落的

[法] 失效的, 过期的

lapsed

[ adj ]
no longer active or practicing
<adj.all>
a lapsed Catholic

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.

Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.

Once more I will renew
His lapsed powers, though forfeit. --Milton.

2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.

{Lapsed devise}, {Lapsed legacy} (Law), a devise, or legacy,
which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
for other cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).

His wife Bella, son Howard, and daughter Marla turned to the legal system in 1988 to have his intravenous feeding tubes removed. Relatives said Greenspan had expressed a desire to die if he ever lapsed into a vegetative state.
The lapsed three-year contract went into effect after The Brenlin Group of Ohio bought the plant under provisions of a court-ordered sale.
Freud lapsed into a coma the next day and died in the early morning of Sept. 23.
Yet since that pious call for a lively public discussion, the Journal has lapsed into near editorial silence.
Stock prices lapsed into a steady decline today in a sluggish late-summer session.
The economy afterwards lapsed into sub-standard growth, known then as the 'corrugated iron business cycle'. The chancellor admires France's record.
A young Irish woman, who came here to visit a sweetheart but found him jailed on murder charges, was struck by a car on St. Patrick's Day and lapsed into a coma, say her family and friends.
He lapsed into a coma for two weeks, emerged, then lost consciousness last Monday.
The result is a funny and apt survival guide for every lapsed hippy who feels bad about selling out but does not quite know what to do about it. Spiritual dislocation of a very different sort is on offer in The Man Who Was Late.
Why a frustrated, lapsed Mormon screenwriter?
"Tyson started off OK tonight, but then he lapsed back, not jabbing, not moving.
The stock market lapsed into a sluggish decline Thursday as investors cautiously awaited monthly statistics on employment.
The treaty lapsed in 1985 when Mozambique produced evidence that South Africa violated it by continuing to assist the Mozambique National Resistance rebel movement, which began an insurgency two years after independence from Portugal in 1975.
That agreement lapsed March 1.
The new offer replaces an original $2.8 billion bid that automatically lapsed in January following the government's decision to investigate the impact the combination would have on competition in Britain's electronics industry.
Stock prices lapsed into a broad decline today as traders studied the latest data on economic growth.
Critics from women's and senior citizens groups said the number of lapsed cases actually ran into the thousands.
By the time the "standstill" agreement had lapsed, Texaco had already obtained the federal court injunction against the Texas bond-and-lien rules.
Even when pressed to cite differences, the two candidates lapsed into familiar campaign rhetoric that hardly qualified as political attacks.
Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey cautioned, however, that the quiet period does not necessarily mean the volcano has lapsed into long-term inactivity.
The original GEC-Siemens offer made earlier this year, valuing Plessey at $2.8 billion, automatically lapsed when the monopolies commission launched its inquiry in January.
He last entered the hospital Jan. 15 and underwent a tracheostomy Feb. 1, after which he lapsed into critical condition.
Describing himself as "a lapsed Moslem," Ali said: "The aim of the play is to open up debate, clear the air, move forward with ease" in examining the many facets of Islam.
Orders review of early terminations of personal pension policies - to later find that 50,000 have lapsed in the third quarter of 1992, all two years-old or under.
In 1987, he agreed to a divorce from his wife and renounced all claims to her fortune, including the $120,000-a-year trust fund created for him before she lapsed into the coma.
The license for the child care operation lapsed in September.
There has been no formal water-sharing agreement since the treaty lapsed in 1982.
It was during World War II, when millions of workers were urgently building Navy ships, that precautions lapsed.
In recent days, the White House has attacked the Boland amendment, which lapsed last fall, as a vague, narrow and shifting statute that couldn't restrict the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign policy.
The Soviets say their imports from Japan are down only 25%, mainly because they are buying less steel pipe and because two major trade agreements have lapsed and are being negotiated.

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