flake

vi. 剥落；成片状剥落

vt. 使…成薄片；将…剥落

n. 小薄片；火花

n. (Flake)人名；(英)弗莱克；(德)弗拉克

中文词源

flake 薄片，碎片

词源不确定。可能来自PIE*pele, 平的，词源同flat, plan. 用来指小薄片，碎片。

flake: flake: [14] Flake appears to go back to a prehistoric Germanic source which denoted the splitting of rocks into strata. This was *flak-, a variant of which produced English flaw [14] (which originally meant ‘flake’), the second syllable of whitlow [14] (which probably means etymologically ‘white fissure’), floe [19], and probably flag ‘stone slab’.
=> flag, flaw, floe, whitlow
flake (n.): "thin, flat piece of snow; a particle," early 14c., also flauke, flagge, which is of uncertain origin, possibly from Old English *flacca "flakes of snow," or from cognate Old Norse flak "loose or torn piece" (related to Old Norse fla "to skin;" see flay); or perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flago- (cognates: Middle Dutch vlac, Dutch vlak "flat, level," Middle High German vlach, German Flocke "flake"); from PIE *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta). From late 14c. as "a speck, a spot."
flake (v.): early 15c., flaken, (of snow) "to fall in flakes," from flake (n.). Transitive meaning "break or peel off in flakes" is from 1620s; intransitive sense of "to come off in flakes" is from 1759. . Related: Flaked; flaking.

1. f- (谐音“飞”) + lake => 湖中飞雪、湖中飘雪、西湖飞雪，这是多么美的一幅场景、花卷啊 => 雪片、薄片。2. flag, flaw, floe => flake.3. flag <====> flake.

4. Ireland is not for you if you want to flake out on a beach.: 如果想躺在沙滩上好好放松一下，爱尔兰并不是合适的地方。

5. A flake of plaster from the ceiling fell into his eye, which became septic.: 天花板上的一小片熟石膏掉到他眼里，致使他的眼睛感染了。