Droop
[druːp] or [drup]
解释:
(v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
(v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
(v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
(v. t.) To let droop or sink.
(n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
整理:莱斯利
同义词及近义词：
v. n. [1]. Wilt, wither, fade.[2]. Languish, faint, sink, fail, decline, grow weak, be dispirited.
杰里米整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Sink, flag, decline, pine, languish, drop, bend, incurve, fade
ANT:Revive, flourish, luxuriate, prosper, rally, raise
手打:丽塔
解释:
v.i. to sink or hang down: to grow weak or faint: to decline.—v.t. to let sink.—n. a drooping position.—adv. Droop′ingly in a drooping manner.
录入:诺顿
例句:
- She would not permit the gardens to be neglected, nor the very flowers in the cottage lattices to droop from want of care. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He has the faded appearance of a gentleman in embarrassed circumstances; even his light whiskers droop with something of a shabby air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She might droop, and flush, and flutter to his arms, as to her natural home and resting-place. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- I may be stung, I may seem to droop for a time, but no pain or malady of sentiment has yet gone through my whole system. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Few cared to buy flowers in summer, and her bouquets began to droop long before night. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- He soon began to droop his head again, and roll it heavily, and speak as if he were half awake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She noiselessly paced to and fro the carpeted floor, her head drooped, her hands folded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Bella's eyes followed him to the door, lighted on Mr Boffin complacently thrown back in his easy chair, and drooped over her book. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- All drooped low in the saddles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The reflection brought back the yielding of her face and form as she had drooped under his gaze. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Mrs. Corney drooped her head, when the beadle said this; the beadle drooped his, to get a view of Mrs. Corney's face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Her words were smothered in her throat, and her head drooped down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- My flagging spirits asked for something to speak to the affections; and not finding it, I drooped. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Here, however, an object presented itself, which rekindled their hopes, and reanimated their drooping spirits. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She had nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- He looked her over in his searching fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I trust not, said Justinian, who stood sternly under the drooping folds of the Union Jack, but I doubt it while Caliphronas is alive. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Before he left the room, he appointed a time for them to come to him; and so, with his gray head drooping, went away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- He cowers and droops. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She affects not to know that his eyes are fastened on her as she droops her head again; but her whole figure reveals that she knows it uneasily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He is so low that he droops on the threshold and has hardly strength of mind to enter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The mind flags beneath the weight of thought, and droops in the heartless intercourse of those whose sole aim is amusement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
手打:拉蒙纳