英:[lɪmp]
美:[lɪmp]
英:[lɪmp]
美:[lɪmp]
复数:limps
第三人称单数:limps
现在分词:limping
过去式:limped
过去分词:limped
比较级:limper或more limp
最高级:limpest或most limp
词根:limp
adv.limply 柔软地;四肢无力地,软绵绵地
n.limpness 柔弱,软弱;疲倦
verb
intransitive verb
to walk with an uneven and usually slow movement or gaitespecially: to walk favoring one leg
The injured player limped off the field.
to go unsteadily : falter
After which the conversation limped for some time …—Henry Green
to proceed slowly or with difficulty
The ship limped back to port.
noun
an uneven movement or gait : a favoring of one leg while walking
adjective
lacking firm texture, substance, or structure her hair hung limp about her shoulders
limp curtains
not stiff or rigid
a book in a limp binding
weary, exhausted
limp with fatigue
lacking in strength, vigor, or firmness : spiritless
"踉踉跄跄地移动",1560年代,起源不明,在古英语或中古英语中找不到; 可能与中古英语 lympen "不足"(约1400年)有关,后者可能源于古英语 lemphealt "跛行的,瘸的",其中的第一个成分本身也不清楚。
OED 指出,德语 lampen "松弛地垂下"(中古高地德语 limphin)"已经进行了比较"。也许它来自一个表示"松弛、松散、垂下"的 PIE 词根(源自梵语 lambate "垂下",中古高地德语 lampen "垂下")。相关词汇: Limped; limping。中古英语中的 Limpen 是一个不同的动词,意为"发生,降临,落到...的命运",源自古英语 limpan,可能最终源自同一词根。
Verb and Noun probably from Middle English lympen to fall short; akin to Old English limpan to happen, lemphealt lame Adjective akin to limp >entry 1
The first known use of limp was circa 1570
limpidadjective
perfectly clear : transparent
limpid streams
limpidadjective
perfectly clear : transparent
limpid streams
limpidadjective
perfectly clear : transparent
limpid streams
limpidadjective
perfectly clear : transparent
limpid streams
limpidadjective
perfectly clear : transparent
limpid streams
limpetnoun
a marine mollusk that has a low cone-shaped shell, moves over rocks or timbers feeding on food found there, and clings very tightly when disturbed
limp1 of 3verb
to walk with difficulty due to physical impairment
to go slowly or with difficulty
limp2 of 3noun
a limping movement or gait
walked with a limp
limp3 of 3adjective
not firm or stiff
weary entry 1 sense 1, exhausted
limp1 of 3verb
to walk with difficulty due to physical impairment
to go slowly or with difficulty
limp2 of 3noun
a limping movement or gait
walked with a limp
limp3 of 3adjective
not firm or stiff
weary entry 1 sense 1, exhausted
limp1 of 2intransitive verb
to walk lamelyespecially: to walk favoring one leg
to go unsteadily
limp2 of 2noun
a limping movement or gait
1 Phil whispers my name and takes my limp left hand in his.
2 This man was dusty and a little crumpled, machine gun limp in his hands.
3 He took it out of the limp hand, which yielded it automatically, and began to read, tilting the page to the light.
4 His dark coat rippled in the salt breeze, his limp more pronounced tonight, as it always was when the weather turned cold.
5 Camel limps weakly behind, popping his head around one side, and then falling back and running along the other like a disgraced puppy.
6 The car had just passed the zugangi barracks when the hospital door opened and a small thin boy limped down the steps, his right knee bloody and his blue eyes ringed with dirt.
7 When Shorty let me stand up and see in the minor, my hair hung down in limp, damp strings.
8 As he approaches the dark bulwark of the ramparts, a man in uniform limps toward him out of the blackness.
9 She was told to reject applicants with limp handshakes.
她被告知要回绝掉那些握手软弱无力的申请者。
10 When he saw her limping forward, he laughed.
11 I limp through the streets along the rim of Alta and Winter sector, along the lake and out in the open, lost in the crowded shuffle of other people.
12 Her stomach rumbled as she limped after Robin down the stairs.
13 I do not think that he knew I was picking him up, for his body was limp, as if he were dead.
14 But as I limped on home, I figured that if I read an act that night, and another on Thursday, and Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, I could have it all finished pretty painlessly.
15 Dad brought Littlebit’s limp body home that night and, while I wailed, turned me over his knee and gave me three good whacks.
16 When I congratulated him after the wedding and shook his hand, his fingers were limp and moist.
17 The meetings were held in the basement of Wharton Hall, a harshly lit, windowless room, paper plates, pizza cartons, and soda bottles piled on a metal table, folding chairs arranged in a limp semicircle.
18 How slowly time limps by in childhood.
19 During the afternoon of the following day, while the Off Fore Mark were at silflay, he came limping through the sentry line with a straggling handful of six or seven rabbits.
20 He stopped a dozen yards away beside a copse and waited for the star, who limped down the side of the caravan steps and came over to him.
3 意志薄弱的
4 软面
6 软弱的
milk-toast soft trick weak mushy flabby feckless washy gutless chinless wet feeble weedy languid spastic spineless Dicky nicey-nice mild tender delicate pale faint milky floppy powerless meek flaccid effete dickey weak-kneed forceless limpsy
7 喝醉
wapsed fuzzled rileyed scraunched swazzled woofled stotious full cut blue shot comfortable wet mixed floating rigid cooked loaded twisted gone bottled sloppy boiled jagged ripped potted preserved greased smashed boozy crashed stoned tipsy malty piped woozy stewed screwed stung cockeyed corked buffy sloshed fou tanked honkers sozzled walleyed chocker shit-faced swacked flako spiflicated cup corn bighead liquor gin lubricate sozzle tipsify can soak souse fuddle the worse for drink lit to the gills have a pack have a snoot full get a can on get tanked up have a buzz on tie one on be in beer knocked out in wine draw blank in pot
10 柔弱
female weak tender delicate feminine milky slender sissy effeminate nancy nance feebly weakness delicacy femininity weakling effeminacy milkiness soften emasculate
11 疲倦的
ennuyé tired wearing jaded washed-out wearied languorous weary worn hung
12 柔软
soft smooth supple velvety pliable yielding emollient ductile downy limber lithe pulpy pillowy cushiony cottony willowy pappy crumby softish lissom wandle molluscous tenderness softness pliability pliancy soften tenderize tender delicate lank delicacy flexible waxy balmy pliant lissome svelte lithesome silky mushy cushy flaccid bendy flossy softly buff mollescent pulpous kind plastic fluffy velvet nappy silken waxen pily waxiness unlimber pulpify satin Pliable buxom satiny sarcenet quaggy pultaceous
14 一瘸一拐地走
17 蹒跚
stagger hobble totter toddle shamble titubation stot founder falter flounder dodder hirple reel
18 艰难地移动
get claw your way back of claw your way back to claw your way into of claw your way into to claw your way out of claw your way out to struggle
20 没有精神的
21 柔软的
soft smooth supple velvety pliable yielding emollient ductile downy limber lithe pulpy pillowy cushiony cottony willowy pappy crumby softish lissom wandle molluscous tender delicate lank flexible waxy balmy pliant lissome svelte lithesome silky mushy cushy flaccid bendy flossy feathery luscious silken doughy mollescent pulpous kind plastic fluffy velvet nappy waxen pily satin Pliable buxom satiny sarcenet quaggy pultaceous
23 无力的
milk-toast low weak wan faint incapable helpless watery powerless diluted spent impotent ineffectual paralytic languorous unemphatic strengthless asthenic muscleless adynamic forceless impuissant thin feeble sickly washy nerveless droopy languid pallid subaqueous flabby dead empty invalid vain meager inefficacious pathetic etiolated flaccid anaemic enfeebled
25 松软的
28 喝醉的
wapsed fuzzled rileyed scraunched swazzled woofled stotious full cut blue shot comfortable wet mixed floating rigid cooked loaded twisted gone bottled sloppy boiled jagged ripped potted preserved greased smashed boozy crashed stoned tipsy malty piped woozy stewed screwed stung cockeyed corked buffy sloshed fou tanked honkers sozzled walleyed chocker shit-faced swacked flako spiflicated lit to the gills
30 软弱
milk-toast soft trick weak mushy flabby feckless washy weakly meekly feebly punily milksopism weakliness puniness flaccidity overcome nicey-nice wet mild tender delicate pale faint milky floppy powerless meek feeble flaccid spineless effete dickey weak-kneed chinless forceless limpsy soften emasculate unbrace
31 无精神的
32 无力
milk-toast low weak wan faint incapable helpless watery powerless diluted spent impotent ineffectual paralytic languorous unemphatic strengthless asthenic muscleless adynamic forceless impuissant dilutedly weakly faintly feebly limply rockily disability weakness paralysis inertia incapacity impotence powerlessness asthenia enervation rockiness anergy impuissance hamstring paralyze beggar enervate thin unequal feeble sickly washy nerveless inability enfeeble flabby dead empty invalid vain meager languid inefficacious inanition incapacitate cut the claws of pathetic etiolated emasculate flaccid anaemic enfeebled can't be fagged
33 无生气
low dead flat pedestrian sterile lifeless frigid inanimate lacklustre insipid bloodless muzzy out of curl drab dour anaemic Podunk weak doldrums inert aseptic pallid lethargy deadness inanimation thewless thowless slumbery slow wooden passive faint bland glazed lackluster soulless flabby desiccated gutless unfired insensate cut-and-dried fireless slumberous insentient unenlivened undynamic unlively uneager thieveless unvital vegetably flatness vapidity cut and dried
34 疲倦
ennuyé tired wearing jaded washed-out wearied languorous wearily languorously tire weary tucker look washed out be worn out worn hung frazzle lassitude knock the stuffing out of
35 无生气的
stark bloodless low dead flat pedestrian sterile lifeless frigid inanimate lacklustre insipid muzzy drab dour anaemic Podunk weak arid glassy soulless pallid waxen inert aseptic thewless thowless slumbery slow wooden passive faint bland glazed lackluster flabby desiccated gutless unfired insensate cut-and-dried fireless slumberous insentient unenlivened undynamic unlively uneager thieveless unvital cut and dried
36 松软