lingering

1 It wasn’t difficult to convince Mother that I was ill, what with my listlessness and lingering hives.

2 He was weary from practice, the constant punishment his body took, the frustration of never getting a play off, never completing a pass, the coach’s sarcasm, the lingering September heat.

3 Diegos skin pressed against mine as he kissed my lips and my neck, lingering only long enough in one spot to make me want more.

4 While he waited, Pax licked his fur dry and clean, taking comfort in the lingering Peter-scent he found there.

5 But Boeing's outward success concealed lingering problems.

然而波音公司出色的表现暗藏挥之不去的的隐患。

6 He has recovered from his serious lingering disease.

他的沉疴痊愈.

7 No one wears shoes indoors, and there’s always the faint scent of food lingering in the air.

8 She found the baboon troop still lingering by the stream.

9 Dimly, Powell was aware that the robot was making a friendly gesture, perhaps to quiet some lingering remorse in forcibly replacing the humans at the controls of the station.

10 It was a lingering effect of the life he had known in Camp 14.

11 He’d smoked a vaporizer, which never stank very much, but we were inside, not outside, and without the breeze it had left a little something lingering in the air.

12 As they continued to shop, it was Citra who first noticed two suspicious-looking teens who seemed to be tracking them through the store, lingering behind them, trying to look like they were just shopping.

13 His kiss before he left was quick, not the usual lingering press of lips, and that too she held against him.

14 She wiped a lingering tear away from her cheek and let her hand hover over the other books.

15 Marcus, having seen Aurelia off in her carriage, with sharp, whispered orders to keep silent, was lingering outside in the dark, afraid, now he was alone, to return to the villa and face the situation.

16 It was difficult to see because the roiling surface had yet to recover its tranquillity, and the turbulence was driven by the lingering spirit of her fury.

17 The truth is nothing more than a small green room with dirty windows and a lingering smell of cigarettes, even though it has been illegal to smoke on school property for years.

18 The men in the rocket saw his shadow lingering in the stone-hut doorway.

19 The cold, wet weather and the lack of heating in the police barracks were making it hard for Don Hume to throw off the cold—or whatever it was that was lingering in his chest.

20 She nodded, lingering as if she had something else to say.

1 持续

consistent constant ongoing enduring continual relentless unrelenting insistent unremitting through steadily relentlessly persistently insistently enduringly unremittingly untiringly continuation continuance be go last run continue progress extend endure span sustain uninterrupted solid running continuous continued steady persistent lasting sustained sitting flowing hold persist perpetuate go on run on hold out

2 继续存在

ongoing persistence live

3 缠绵的

syrupy

4 缓慢消失

linger

5 存留

survival survive

6 踌躇

vacillant hesitative hesitant tentative shrinking halting faltering hesitatingly pause poise fluctuation hesitation falter hesitance vacillation scrupulosity swither stop stand balance stick chop stumble hesitate hover dwell crane boggle tarry stickle deter

7 逡巡的

backward

8 拖延

lagging dilatory languishing behindhand procrastination arrearage protraction drag-out linger procrastinate shunt drag feet drag heels stall protract temporize be in into arrears get behind protracted tardy dilatoriness delay dawdle impede drag out arrear on the hook shift off get behind with sit on run on put back draw out in arrears long-drawn-out keep string out hold off spin out willy-nilly drag go-around foot-dragging spread prolongate drive wait hang defer prolong sidetrack

9 踌躇的

vacillant hesitative hesitant tentative shrinking halting faltering

10 逡巡

backward prowl take a prowl be on the prowl go on the prowl falter lurch stagger

11 犹豫的

hesitant halting veering hesitating

12 逗留

stop visit stay be remain abide linger tarry sojourn hang stick around

13 继续存在的

ongoing

14 长期持续的

long-standing

15 拖延的

lagging dilatory languishing behindhand protracted tardy long-drawn-out willy-nilly

16 持续的

consistent constant ongoing enduring continual relentless unrelenting insistent unremitting uninterrupted solid running continuous continued steady persistent lasting sustained sitting flowing

17 犹豫

hesitant halting veering hesitating hesitatingly hesitation oscillation hesitancy vacillation shilly-shally hang weaken stagger waver balk oscillate dither scruple swither