英:[ˈlʌvsɪk]
美:['lʌvsɪk]
英:[ˈlʌvsɪk]
美:['lʌvsɪk]
love·sick
luhv sIk
lovesickness (n.)
adjective
longing for, marked by, or expressive of a desire for romantic love "I'd trade a thousand roses for just one hand to hold," went one line of the lovesick songs [Allison Moorer] sang …—Kevin McKeough (humorous) News of a lovesick moose brought visitors by the carload to the farm …—Faith McNulty
As the play begins, the Duke is like a lovesick teenager who listens to the same melancholy tune over and over as he dreams of the object of his affection.—Tanya Grosz and Linda Wendler
也称 love-sick,意为“因爱而憔悴”,始见于1520年代,由 love(n.)和 sick(adj.)组成。相关词汇: Lovesickness。
The first known use of lovesick was in the 15th century
lowdownnoun
reliable information
lowbrowadjective
of, relating to, or suitable for a person without intellectual interests or culture
lowboynoun
a chest of drawers about three feet (one meter) high with long legs
lovingadjective
feeling or showing love : affectionate a loving glance
loving care
lovingadjective
feeling or showing love : affectionate a loving glance
loving care
lovingadjective
feeling or showing love : affectionate a loving glance
loving care
lovesickadjective
weak with love
expressing a lover's desire
lovesick poems
lovesickadjective
weak with love
expressing a lover's desire
lovesick poems
1 Ms. Finck didn’t pick these 11 letters at random, of course; her tender affinity for lovesick schlemiels out of Isaac Bashevis Singer skews the sample.
2 “I’ll buy a Hershey bar to share with you, but only if you promise not to say his name again like some lovesick puppy.”
3 In the first place, he was in love—that was why he had been weeping inthe boat He explained it to Queen Morgause on the fint opportunity —because he was lovesick, not seasick.
4 It was the sort of story — a pretty young tourist, a lovesick croupier, the ineffable mechanisms of chance — in which Ms. Pearlman specializes.
5 I dropped mix tapes and notes on her palace from the air, like lovesick bombs.
6 “I know for a fact that there are many Marias in Miami who are lovesick for musicians,” he said.
7 It’s cloudy now, like even the sun is trying to spare you the embarrassment of being seen walking hand in hand with the object of your unrequited affection like some lovesick puppy.
8 The first episode of the fish-out-of-water dramedy sees a group of lovesick, largely American drifters make their way through the bars and nightlife of Paris.
9 No point in asking whether Una, the character played with mesmerizing neuroticism by the waifish Williams, is closer to Carol, the avenging student in Mamet's "Oleanna," or lovesick May from Shepard's "Fool for Love."
10 And a music video from the band Scattered Trees, called "Love and Leave," takes a look at the more mundane activities performed by lovesick Stormtroopers.
11 And Beatrice, who was either terrified, lovesick, or sound asleep.
12 The film starred Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker as a couple whose wedding plans in Las Vegas go awry at the hands of a lovesick gambler played by James Caan.
13 I had to wonder what Chas would say if he knew he was pouring his lovesick heart out to a gay guy with the serious hots for the fly half on our rugby team.
14 All the while she leaves Christine to a fate that can be guessed from a word, “forsaken,” that is visibly prominent on the lovesick victim’s bedroom wall.
15 But the mournful, lovesick crooning of a countertenor elephant may touch them quite in spite of themselves.
16 Beside the work, Goldsmith contributes the lyrics of the Cure’s “How Beautiful You Are,” a Baudelaire-based dirge about wandering, lovesick, through Parisian streets.
17 So what we experience now as a gloriously spontaneous outburst for a couple of lovesick youngsters is really the result of a whole context preparing its immortality in advance.
18 It has verses about lovesick loneliness, and a chorus that concludes, “I got lost on the river, but I got found.”
19 Sandy’s mother works long hours as a domestic for an exacting white woman and comes home so exhausted and lovesick that she doesn’t have much attention to spare for her young son.
20 Twelfth Night Shakespeare's romantic farce about a shipwrecked woman, a lovesick duke and others.