flags
A flag is a piece of cloth which can be attached to a pole and which is used as a sign, signal, or symbol of something, especially of a particular country.
The Marines climbed to the roof of the embassy building to raise the American flag.
海军陆战队士兵爬上使馆大楼的楼顶去升美国国旗。
Journalists sometimes refer to the flag of a particular country or organization as a way of referring to the country or organization itself and its values or power.
Every person who serves under the American flag will answer to his or her own superiors and to military law.
在美军服役的每个人都必须服从自己的上级和军法。
flags , flagging , flagged
If you flag or if your spirits flag, you begin to lose enthusiasm or energy.
His enthusiasm was in no way flagging.
他的热情丝毫没有减退。