flats

• He feels boxed in , living in that tiny flat .
  他身居斗室，感到很不自在。
• The commandant issues a flat order .
  司令官发布一道干脆的命令。
• Breeze riffled the flat blue calm of the sea .
  微风吹皱了平静的蓝色海面。
• The party will fall flat without her .
  要没有她，我们这晚宴还有什么乐趣。
• People used to think world was flat .
  过去人们以为地球是扁的。
• Winston's flat was seven flights up .
  温斯顿的住所在七层楼上。
• His jokes fell flat and amused nobody .
  他的笑话没有效果，谁也不感到有趣。
• The upperend rests against a flat washer .
  上端紧靠固定垫上。
• That the earth is flat is an erroneous concept .
  认为地球是平的观念是错的。
• There was the solitary flat marsh on the shore .
  岸上是一片荒凉萧索的沼地。