languish

英['læŋɡwɪʃ] 美['læŋɡwɪʃ]
  • v. 衰弱无力；失去活力；受苦；憔悴
languishingly languisher languished languished languishing languishes
CET6+ TEM8 GRE
使用频率:
星级词汇:
  • lang abbr.语言（=language）

详细释义

Verb:
  1. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

    "After her husband died, she just pined away"

  2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present;

    "She ached for a cigarette"
    "I am pining for my lover"

  3. become feeble;

    "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

双语例句

1. Pollard continues to languish in prison.
波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。

来自《权威词典》

3. No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
无人清楚如今有多少难民在到处流浪，或有多少人流离失所，在难民营里受苦。

来自柯林斯例句

4. New products languish on the drawing board.
新产品在计划阶段即告失败。

来自辞典例句

5. New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
新的发明总会在实验室里多年无人问津.

来自辞典例句

    用作动词 (v.)
    1. Shares now languish around $13 per share.
      股价现在衰弱到了每股%2413左右。
    2. The housing market continues to languish.
      房地产市场继续低迷。
    3. My interest in music has languished slightly.
      我对音乐的兴趣有点减退。
    4. The flower languished from lack of water.
      花因缺水而枯萎。
    5. The children soon began to languish in the heat.
      孩子们很快就热得懒洋洋的了.
    6. In the Tower of London,prisoners used to languish in chains,cold,and darkness.
      过去，在伦敦塔里的囚犯受到镣铐、寒冷和阴暗的折磨。
    7. 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。

用法讲解

相关词汇

【邻近词汇】

languor languid languisher languishing languishment languish for languishingly Languish for home languish for home and family. languishing under foreign domination
展开全文

大家正在查

affronted是什么意思 affuse是什么意思 affusion是什么意思 afge是什么意思 afghan是什么意思 afghani是什么意思 afield是什么意思 afips是什么意思 afire是什么意思 afl是什么意思