To fly the flag 摇旗呐喊
A Crowd fills The Mall outside Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a concert to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne Photo: Peter Macdiarmid.
To fly the flag 摇旗呐喊
如果说某人 fly the flag 那么就表示摇旗呐喊，支持自己的国家（或团体）尤其是在国外。
今日小常识
The British flag is known as the Union Flag. It is actually three flags on top of each other: the Saint George’s Cross, representing England; the Cross of Saint Andrew, representing Scotland; and the Cross of Saint Patrick, which is sometimes used to represent Ireland.
英国国旗在英语里就是The Union Flag. 它实际上是由三面旗帜合并组成的:圣乔治十字代表英格兰, 圣安德鲁十字代表苏格兰;圣徒帕特里克的十字有时被用来代表爱尔兰。
例句
I’ll be flying the flag for the company when I speak at that big conference in India next week.
Lang Lang flies the flag for China when he plays on the international stage.
请注意
注意另一个单词 flagging 表示体力或能量的衰减，没力气了。
By the 40th kilometre the marathon runner was really flagging. It looked like she wouldn’t complete the race.
