languish
发音
英 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ]
美 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ]
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- vi.
- 憔悴，潦倒
- （草木等）凋萎
- 失去活力
- 烦恼，焦思
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- n.
- 憔悴
- 惹人怜爱的感伤模样[倦态等]
- 脉脉含情
单词词源
languish 长期受苦，煎熬
来自PIE*sleg,松的，松散的，词源同lax,slack.引申词义松软无力的，消瘦的，后用来指长期受苦，煎熬。
双语例句
- 1. Why do you always let me languish .
- 为什么你总让我憔悴。
- 2. But there 's something more fundamentally wrong in our political and economic system that permits them to do so while the vast majority of people languish in poverty , or are barely keeping their heads above water after paying their taxes , their student debts , their rent and basic necessities .
- 但在我们的政治和经济体制中出了更根本的毛病，它允许人们在大多数人都因贫困而憔悴，或在付清税款、学生债务、房租和日常必需品之后勉强维持生计之时仍然追求财富。
- 3. Legislation that continued to languish in committee .
- 在这个委员会里继续被搁置的立法。
- 4. The children soon began to languish in the heat .
- 孩子们很快就热得懒洋洋的了。
- 5. The film continued to languish unseen .
- 影片继续受无人知晓的折磨。