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.
实用例句
1. Skin, bone and flake the fish.
去鱼皮、鱼骨，再把鱼肉片成薄片。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Oiled wood is water-resistant and won't flake.
上过油的木头防水而且不会剥落。
来自柯林斯例句
3. A flake of bone had lodged itself in his knee.
一块碎骨片留在他的膝盖里.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
来自柯林斯例句
5. A flake of plaster from the ceiling fell into his eye, which became septic.
