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vi.
憔悴,潦倒
(草木等)凋萎
失去活力
烦恼,焦思
lan·guish
laeng gwihsh
第三人称单数:languishes
现在分词:languishing
过去式:languished
过去分词:languished
languisher (n.)
词根:languish
adj.languishing 渴望的;含情脉脉的;渐渐衰弱的
intransitive verb
to lose strength or energy; weaken.With such good care, he should have been gaining strength, but instead he was languishing.
to suffer in a state of neglect or indifference.Without new food supplies or reinforcements, the encamped army languished.The old woman languished in the nursing home with rarely a visit from one of her children.
to yearn or long for someone, esp. in a melancholy way.For years he languished, unable to think of any other woman.
14世纪初,“力量不足,表现出临近死亡的迹象”,来自 Old French languir(12世纪)的 languiss-, 现在分词词干,意为“无精打采,憔悴,悲伤,生病”,源自 Vulgar Latin *languire,源自拉丁语 languere “虚弱或昏厥”(来自 PIE 根 *sleg- “松弛,懒散”)。更弱的“相思,悲伤,哀叹,变得虚弱”的意义来自14世纪中叶。相关: Languished; languishing。
Middle English, from Anglo-French languiss-, stem of languir, from Vulgar Latin *languire, from Latin languēre
The first known use of languish was in the 14th century
languishverb
to become weak or languid : waste away
languish in prison
to suffer neglect
a bill languishing in the Senate
languishverb
to become weak or languid : waste away
languish in prison
to suffer neglect
a bill languishing in the Senate
languishverb
to become weak or languid : waste away
languish in prison
to suffer neglect
a bill languishing in the Senate
languishverb
to become weak or languid : waste away
languish in prison
to suffer neglect
a bill languishing in the Senate
languishverb
to become weak or languid : waste away
languish in prison
to suffer neglect
a bill languishing in the Senate
1 The red should languish and the green must grow?
应是绿肥红瘦。
2 The ship slid by for what seemed like a mile, a mile of high, black canyon wall, a mile of castle fortification with not a single sentinel to notice us languishing in the moat.
3 What achievements can not be said, what of it languish, the daily live without substantial simple.
说不上有什么成就, 也说不上有什么萎靡, 每天的生活过得简单而不充实.
4 They themselves shall be like watered gardens, never again shall they languish.
他们的心灵要好象受灌溉的田园,再也不感憔悴。
5 She languished in the Tucker Sanatorium for three months before being transferred to Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg.
6 “That they may not languish in unavailing grief,” he said in a slightly amplified voice, “nor sorrow as those who have no hope, but through their tears look always up to Thee....”
7 By the time the two of them finished trimming it — their tree-trimming instincts having languished for so many Christmases — hardly a pine needle could be seen under the tinsel and balls and whatnot.
8 She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
9 Pollard continues to languish in prison.
波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。
10 So many of my people today are languishing in refugee camps, belonging to no country, always in limbo.
11 The Council of Elders languished in prison, and new council members were elected by popular vote.
12 The housing market continues to languish.
房地产市场继续低迷。
13 And because you have stored your slices in the freezer, they do not degrade in the quick and nasty style of sliced bread left to languish at room temperature.
14 Judah mourns, her cities languish ; they for the land , and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
犹大悲哀、城门衰败 、 众人披上黑衣坐在地上.耶路撒冷的哀声上达.
15 Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished...
没有了创始人的斗志与指引,公司逐渐走向没落。
16 Interns can pitch in to support projects that might otherwise languish on a back burner.
实习生们可以投入那些原本可能会被搁置一旁的项目.
17 It reminded her of a certain abominable heresy, whose author was now deservedly languishing in the dungeons of the Consistorial Court.
18 The Arts Council promptly withdrew the company's grant, and the project languished until revived in the new National Theatre of Scotland in 2006.
19 While he dismally languished in Reading Gaol, his once-proud mother died, he was prohibited from seeing his two beloved sons Cyril and Vyvyan, and his brokenhearted wife changed the family name to Holland.
20 You are languishing in a tedious existence among dull people.
1 衰退
declining impotent obsolescent netherward downward downwards failure decline lag decay regression downturn degeneration atrophy obsolescence declination downbeat turndown declension involution retrogression retrogradation go fall flag fade erode ebb dwindle wither molder retrogress reduce depress damp off
2 萎靡
4 减弱
imperfect attenuate attenuation fall flag lower sink slack relent deaden slacken break discount soften blunt subdue wither emaciate emasculate geld unbrace
5 脉脉含情
6 衰弱
shaky worn-out withered emaciate effete enervated doddered adynamic down labefaction tabefaction waste decline collapse weakness breakdown relaxation sinking impotence infirmity prostration debility marasmus wear fail sink pine wither droop bate reduce sap wilt depress prostrate debilitate enervate enfeeble unstring etiolate devitalize
7 烦恼
agonize galling fretful tsoris pet trouble fry distress harassment fret taking annoyance worldly anguish canker disquiet vexation fash pother botheration worriment worry bother sweat fuss fester grizzle cark get exercise tear bug burden disturb rattle annoy exacerbate gall molest dun haggle pester vex ail rive discompose aggrieve beleaguer discommode careful worried worrying cloudy troubled turned-off carking care disease upset irritation lust cross nag graum baffle wherret pain load rank murder chase devil hassle inflict torment hump ruffle oppress beset irk encumber chevy scarify importune rowel moider fret gizzard get in hair bust a gut do to
10 受折磨
laden harried hagridden groan hagride strike eat the bread of affliction go through the hoop haveon back on the griddle
11 潦倒
12 含情脉脉
14 苦思
16 减少
subtractive peaked waney off loss decrease reduction slash rebate shrinkage attenuation abatement letdown diminution fall-off peak sink ramp dull diminish slack lessen wane dwindle whittle abate downhold down-point reduce limit shake relax shed relieve shave shorten impair lighten soothe deplete dampen slacken emaciate retrench bate minish falling off
17 凋萎
18 渴望
appetent orectic keen hungry eager anxious greedy thirsty longing yearning desirous bursting solicitous raring athirst hankeringly anxiously avidly longingly hungrily wishfully anxiety rage hunger aspiration calling itch craving lust thirst yen eagerness hankering avidity avidness appetency hungriness orexis appetence aspire long die pant pine crave ache starve yearn hanker desiderate set heart on set heart upon have a desire for be anxious to have a longing for have heart set on starve for yearn after pine after set mind on pant after desirous to as keen as mustard long to long for wish for hunger for keen on pine for dying avid impatient wishful ravenous wistful passional emulous sharp-set lickerish impatience solicitude prurience thirstiness pruriency water dream burn hone weary groan desire agog passionary keen-set sick ambitious itchy covetous prurient longed-for list itching gape Eros desiderium fain sigh covet ambition adore gape after gasp for
19 憔悴
wearish wasted gaunt emaciated haggard peaked peaky cadaverous chapfallen toilworn emaciation languishment peak consume fade pine wilt emaciate pine away thin hungry wan drawn seedy die wither pinch peak and pine devour heart out green about the gills fallen bony battered tabefaction sear worn consuming withered boney raddled
21 枯萎
emarcid dead killing sear withering blasted withered blighted sere sapless blastment blast fadeaway die flag fade damp wilt scorch wither droop shrivel kill choke blight scathe wither away faded dried-up blasting dieback languor perish pinch
22 失去活力
devitalize wither enervate emasculate rot wilt dehydrate effete deaden inactivate out of curl
23 焦思