flatly

adv.

1. 断然；斩钉截铁地
   in a way that is very definite and will not be changed
   1. to flatly deny/reject/oppose sth
      断然否认 / 拒绝 / 反对某事
   2. I flatly refused to spend any more time helping him.
      我断然拒绝再花时间帮助他。
2. 枯燥地；无趣地；缺乏热情地
   in a dull way with very little interest or emotion
   1. ‘Oh, it's you,’ she said flatly.
      “哦，是你。”她冷冷地说。

1. N-COUNT (一间)公寓;(一套)单元房
   A flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor and part of a larger building. A flat usually includes a kitchen and bathroom.
   1. Sara lives with her husband and children in a flat in central London...
      萨拉和丈夫还有孩子们住在伦敦中心城区的一间公寓里。
   2. It started a fire in a block of flats...
      大火是从一幢公寓大楼烧起的。
   3. Later on, Victor from flat 10 called.
      后来，10 号公寓的维克托打来电话。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用apartment


2. ADJ-GRADED 平的;平展的;平滑的
   Something that is flat is level, smooth, or even, rather than sloping, curved, or uneven.
   1. Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry...
      只要表面平整、坚固而且干燥，瓷砖就可以贴住。
   2. After a moment his right hand moved across the cloth, smoothing it flat...
      过了一会儿，他用右手把布抹平。
   3. ...windows which a thief can reach from a drainpipe or flat roof...
      小偷从排水管或平屋顶上就可够到的窗户
   4. The sea was calm, perfectly flat.
      海面风平浪静，没有一丝波澜。
3. ADJ 水平的;非竖直的
   Flat means horizontal and not upright.
   1. Two men near him threw themselves flat...
      他身旁的两个男人直挺挺趴倒在地上。
   2. As heartburn is usually worse when you're lying down in bed, you should avoid lying flat.
      通常躺着的时候胃灼热会更加厉害，所以应当避免平卧。
4. ADJ-GRADED 浅的;不深的;矮的;扁的
   A flat object is not very tall or deep in relation to its length and width.
   1. Ellen is walking down the drive with a square flat box balanced on one hand.
      埃伦正一手托着一个方形的扁盒子沿私人车道走着。
5. ADJ-GRADED (地势)平的，平坦的，无起伏的
   Flat land is level, with no high hills or other raised parts.
   1. To the north lie the flat and fertile farmlands of the Solway plain...
      北边是索尔韦平原平坦而肥沃的农田。
   2. The landscape became wider, flatter and very scenic...
      地势变得更开阔、更平整，风景十分优美。
   3. The highway stretched out flat and straight ahead.
      公路平坦而笔直地向前延伸。
6. N-COUNT 平地;(尤指)低洼地，浅滩
   A low flat area of uncultivated land, especially an area where the ground is soft and wet, can be referred to as flats or a flat .
   1. The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
      盐碱地和泥滩吸引了大量水鸟。
7. N-COUNT 平面;平坦部分
   You can refer to one of the broad flat surfaces of an object as the flat of that object.
   1. He slammed the counter with the flat of his hand.
      他用手掌使劲拍打着柜台。
   2. ...eight cloves of garlic crushed with the flat of a knife.
      用刀面拍碎的 8 粒蒜瓣
8. ADJ-GRADED (鞋)平跟的，平底的
   Flat shoes have no heels or very low heels.
   1. People wear slacks, sweaters, flat shoes, and all manner of casual attire for travel.
      人们穿着宽松的长裤、运动衫、平底鞋和各式适合旅行的休闲服装。
   2. Flats are flat shoes.
      平跟鞋;平底鞋
   3. His mother looked ten years younger in jeans and flats.
      他妈妈穿上牛仔裤和平跟鞋，看上去年轻了 10 岁。
9. (轮胎、球、气球等)瘪的，没气的
   A flat tyre, ball, or balloon does not have enough air in it.
10. N-COUNT 瘪了的轮胎
    A flat is a tyre that does not have enough air in it.
    1. Then, after I finally got back on the highway, I developed a flat.
       后来，我终于回到公路上后，车胎又瘪了。
11. ADJ-GRADED (饮料)无泡的，走了气的
    A drink that is flat is no longer fizzy.
    1. Could this really stop the champagne from going flat?
       这真的能让香槟不走气吗？
12. ADJ-GRADED (电池)没电的，电耗光的，电不足的
    A flat battery has lost some or all of its electrical charge.
    1. His car alarm had been going off for two days and, as a result, the battery was flat.
       他的汽车报警器连着响了两天，结果电池耗没电了。

in AM, use 美国英语用dead


13. ADJ-GRADED (扁)平足的
    If you have flat feet, the arches of your feet are too low.
    1. The condition of flat feet runs in families.
       平足会在家族中遗传。
14. ADJ (拒绝或否认)断然的，坚决的
    A flat denial or refusal is definite and firm, and is unlikely to be changed.
    1. The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement...
       外交部已经坚决否认参与过此事。
    2. She is likely to give you a flat refusal.
       她很可能会断然拒绝你。
15. ADJ 飞速的;短短的
    If you say that something happened, for example, in ten seconds flat or ten minutes flat, you are emphasizing that it happened surprisingly quickly and only took ten seconds or ten minutes.
    1. You're sitting behind an engine that'll move you from 0 to 60mph in six seconds flat...
       您面前的引擎，可以在短短 6 秒钟内速度从 0 提升至每小时 60 英里。
    2. I had it all explained to me in two minutes flat.
       短短两分钟内，我让人把一切都给我解释了一下。
16. ADJ (比率、价格或百分比)固定的，统一的
    A flat rate, price, or percentage is one that is fixed and which applies in every situation.
    1. Fees are charged at a flat rate, rather than on a percentage basis...
       费用按固定价格收取，而不是基于百分比收取。
    2. Sometimes there's a flat fee for carrying out a particular task...
       有时执行某项特定的任务有固定的价码。
    3. Medicare is preparing to cut all payments by a flat 2%.
       国家医疗保健体系正准备对所有收费都统一减少 2%。
17. ADJ-GRADED (贸易或商业)停滞的，不景气的
    If trade or business is flat, it is slow and inactive, rather than busy and improving or increasing.
    1. During the first eight months of this year, sales of big pickups were up 14% while car sales stayed flat...
       今年前 8 个月，大型货车的销售量增加了 14％，而小轿车的销售仍然不景气。
    2. For the country overall, house prices have remained flat.
       从全国来说，房屋价格没有多大变化。
18. ADJ-GRADED 枯燥的;无趣的;乏味的
    If you describe something as flat, you mean that it is dull and not exciting or interesting.
    1. The past few days have seemed comparatively flat and empty...
       过去这几天似乎比较平淡无聊。
    2. It is a long time since a party leader delivered such a dreadfully flat speech as he did yesterday.
       很久没有政党领导人像他昨天那样作如此枯燥无聊的演讲了。
19. ADJ-GRADED (嗓音)平淡的，单调的
    You use flat to describe someone's voice when they are saying something without expressing any emotion.
    1. 'Whatever you say,' he said in a deadly flat voice. 'I'll sit here and wait.'...
       “不管你说什么，我都会坐在这里等。”他用一种极为平淡的声音说道。
    2. Her voice was flat, with no question or hope in it.
       她的声音平淡，听不出疑虑也感觉不到希望。
20. ADJ (用于表示音符的字母后)降半音的，降音的
    Flat is used after a letter representing a musical note to show that the note should be played or sung half a tone lower than the note which otherwise matches that letter. Flat is often represented by the symbol after the letter.
    1. ...Schubert's B flat Piano Trio (Opus 99).
       舒伯特降 B 调钢琴三重奏(第 99 号作品)
21. ADV-GRADED (演唱或乐器)比标准音低的，音偏低的
    If someone sings flat or if a musical instrument is flat, their singing or the instrument is slightly lower in pitch than it should be.
    1. Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
       至少可以说，她的音域不够宽，而且令人不舒服的是，她总是音高偏低。
    2. Flat is also an adjective.
       
    3. He had been fired because his singing was flat.
       他因为唱歌音调偏低而被炒了。
22. PHRASE 非常平坦的;完全平展的
    If you say that something is as flat as a pancake, you are emphasizing that it is completely flat.
    1. My home state of Illinois is flat as a pancake...
       我的故乡伊利诺伊州一马平川。
23. PHRASE 摔倒;跌倒
    If you fall flat on your face, you fall over.
    1. A man walked in off the street and fell flat on his face, unconscious.
       一个男人从街上走进来，趴倒在地，不省人事。
24. PHRASE 失败;不成功
    If an event or attempt falls flat or falls flat on its face, it is unsuccessful.
    1. Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat...
       利兹本想开个玩笑，结果却没有达到效果。
    2. If it wasn't for the main actress, Ellen Barkin, the plot would have fallen flat on its face.
       如果不是女主角埃伦·巴尔金的话，整个情节会非常失败。
25. PHRASE 一文不名;身无分文;一贫如洗
    If you say that you are flat broke, you mean that you have no money at all.
    1. Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.
       两年后，他一贫如洗，靠失业救济金生活。
26. PHRASE 全速;全力以赴;竭尽全力
    If you do something flat out, you do it as fast or as hard as you can.
    1. Everyone is working flat out to try to trap those responsible...
       每个人都在全力以赴，设法捉住那些罪魁祸首。
    2. They hurtled across the line in a flat-out sprint.
       他们拼命冲刺，越过终点线。
27. PHRASE 完完全全的;确确实实的
    You use flat out to emphasize that something is completely the case.
    1. That allegation is a flat-out lie...
       那项指控是彻头彻尾的谎言。
    2. They say the industry is flat out lying about the effects of deregulation.
       他们说业界所谓的放宽管制已经取得了成效的说法纯属谎言。
28. PHRASE 在平地上
    On the flat means on level ground.
    1. He had angina and was unable to walk for more than 200 yards on the flat.
       他患有心绞痛，在平地上最多能走 200 码。
29. in a flat spin → see: spin

1. He has flatly denied casting aspersions on the rabbi's behaviour.
   他已断然否认曾对拉比的行为进行过诋毁。
2. He flatly denied the charge.
   他矢口否认这个指控。
3. Though I tried hard to persuade her to do it, she flatly refused.
   尽管我好言相劝，她依然执意不从。
4. The Southern District flatly rejects this assessment.
   但纽约南区断然驳斥了这一批评。
5. I would flatly refuse, if I were you.
   我要是你，我就干脆不干。
6. I tell you flatly that I will not promise anything.
   我直截了当地告诉你我不会答应任何事。
7. In fact, I would prefer your response was flatly rejected, rather than the silence as a right.
   其实我宁愿你的反应是断然拒绝，而不是那样的沉默以对。
8. The Norwegians and Danes flatly rejected the evidence.
   挪威人和丹麦人断然地驳回了证词。
9. I predicted flatly GM and Ford would soon join us in the loss column.
   我断然预言，通用汽车公司和福特汽车公司很快就会加入我们这些高损企业的行列。
10. But that gang flatly refused me.
    但那帮人随随便便地就拒绝了我。
11. Mr Leung has flatly denied such suggestions.
    梁振英断然否定了此类说法。
12. Mr Obama also flatly rejected suggestions by some Republicans that the US could simply pay interest on its debt.
    奥巴马还断然拒绝了一些共和党人的建议，即美国可优先支付国债利息。
13. He flatly denied that he saw what had happened.
    他矢口否认他看到过事情发生的情况。
14. He flatly refused to talk to me.
    他断然拒绝和我讲话。
15. 'I'm just not like that,'he says flatly.
    “我不是那样的，”福勒无奈的说。
16. "He is dead," said Alice flatly.
    “他死了”，艾丽斯冷漠地说道。
17. I'll tell you, lieutenant, clellan said flatly.
    “你听我说，少尉，”柯黎兰用不痛不痒的口气说道。
18. Well, Mr Lockwood, I argued and complained, and flatly refused him fifty times;
    唉，洛克乌德先生，我申辩，抱怨，明白地拒绝他五十次；
19. They flatly rejected his idea and sent him away.
    这两家公司断然拒绝他的想法并把他打发走。
20. He flatly refused to join us.
    他断然拒绝跟我们在一起。
21. It's hopeless, he said flatly.
    他语气平淡地说：没希望了。
22. Police flatly refused a tall person said to me.
    一个高个子警察冷冷地对我说。
23. The witness responded flatly to the judge's questions.
    证人没精打采地回答了法官的提问。
24. He flatly rejected [ refused] my proposal.
    他断然否决[拒绝]我的提议。
25. He flatly rejected my suggestion that he meet his daughter the next week.
    他直截了当地拒绝了我要他下一个星期去看女儿的建议。
26. I flatly refused to attend their reception.
    我断然拒绝参加他们的招待会。
27. I flatly refuse to come.
    我们的请求遭到断然拒绝。
28. I flatly refuse to do what he says.
    我断然拒绝照他的话去做。
29. I believe that parents should flatly forbid programmes that go in for violence.
    我相信家长应该坚决禁止宣扬暴力的电视节目。
30. Senior executives flatly refused to comment as they left the meeting.
    高级主管离开会场时断然拒绝作出评论。

adv

1. in an unqualified manner
   1. he flatly denied the charges

   Synonym:    categoricallyunconditionally