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A lapse is a temporary slip, failure or break in continuity. If you’re normally polite, a lapse in manners could make you forget to say “please” and “thank you.”
First used to imply a “slip of the memory,” the noun lapse evolved in the sixteenth century from the Latin lapsus, meaning “a slipping and falling, falling into error.” The connotation of “a moral slip” developed later, and the verb form came into existence even later than that. Behaving badly one day when you're usually on your best behavior is a lapse; behaving badly again after a short stint being well-mannered means you're lapsing back into nasty old habits.
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词根: laps
=slip,表示”滑,滑走”
adj.
lapsed 流失的, 堕落的,过时的laps滑,滑走+ed……的→滑走的→过时的
n.&v.
lapse 失误,流逝,丧失,下降,失效,偏离laps滑,滑走+e→[机会]滑走→失去[机会]→出了差错
relapse 旧病复发,再恶化re再次+lapse失效;丧失→再次犯病等
v.
collapse 倒塌col全部+lapse=laps滑倒→全部滑倒→倒塌
elapse [时间]溜走;[光阴]逝去e出+lapse流逝→时光流去