They'll often leap off trees in big belly flops.

它们经常会带着大肚子从树上重重地跳下来。

In fact, he was sort of a flop. A great big, fat flop.

“事实上，他有点失败。巨大的失败。”

It was a flop and shut two years later.

这个举措很失败，并在两年后闭店。

Yeah, that Henry James. His play " Guy Domville" was one of the all-time great belly flops of the late 19th century.

没错 就是那位亨利·詹姆斯 他的戏剧《盖伊·多姆维尔》是19世纪晚期有史以来最失败的戏剧之一。

And finally, if something is a flop, it's completely unsuccessful – a failure.

最后，如果某件事是flop，那就意味着它完全没有成功——失败了。

So, we hope this Words to the Wise has not been a flop.

所以，我们希望这期的《一点就通》不是一期失败的节目。

But it could prove useful even if it flops, for it offers a blueprint for how Facebook itself could one day be governed.

但即使失败了，它也可能被证明是有用的，因为它为Facebook有朝一日如何自我管理提供了一幅蓝图。

So, sometimes a movie might get a lot of buzz but then it's a flop.

所以，有时一部电影也许热度很高，但是之后票房惨淡（flop）。

Nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture with a flop, not just a flop, but the big bold flop, they call it.

几乎所有的媒体都宣布我的新事业失败了不仅是失败 用他们的话说是一败涂地。

But sometimes the new chocolate bar she thinks up is a flop, completely unsuccessful or a failure.

但有时她想出的新巧克力棒会失败。

The director wasn't really sure how to stage it, and initially the play was a flop.

导演并不确定该如何演出这部剧 起初这部剧演出失败了。

Segwaying into our next story, quote, " People like to say Segway was a flop, but we're still here."

引用我们的下一个故事，“人们喜欢说Segway是失败品，但我们还在这里。”

I remember wearing flip flops (laughing) on the carpet.

我记得在地毯上穿着人字拖（笑）。

Almost everybody at the courthouse was wearing flip flops.

法院里几乎每个人都穿着人字拖。

But why was I wearing flip flops and a scarf?

但为什么我穿着拖鞋和围巾？

Where people just wear flip flops and maybe go floating?

人们只穿人字拖然后去漂浮的地方？

I gotta have my flip flops and I got to have sunglasses.

我得穿人字拖，还得戴墨镜。

Eleven million dollars. It was a flop.

博格：一千一百万美元。这是一个失败。

So I knew the case was a flop.

所以我知道这个案子失败了。

So, instead of becoming a flop, the show becomes hugely successful.

因此，该节目没有成为失败，而是获得了巨大的成功。