Linger
['lɪŋgə] or ['lɪŋɡɚ]
解释:
(verb.) take one's time; proceed slowly.
(verb.) remain present although waning or gradually dying; 'Her perfume lingered on'.
乔纳森手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
(v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
(v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.
芭比整理
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Loiter, delay, tarry, lag, saunter, be slow, wait long, remain long.
杰德手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Tarry, loiter, saunter, lag, hesitate, wait
ANT:Haste, speed, press, push
录入:玛格利特
解释:
v.i. to remain long in any state: to loiter.—v.t. (Shak.) to prolong protract: (with out) to pass in a tedious manner.—n. Ling′erer.—adj. Ling′ering protracted.—n. a remaining long.—advs. Ling′eringly; Ling′erly (rare).
整理:华莱士
例句:
- This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, It is folly to linger in this manner. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- So long did he linger, that the very urn died; it ceased to hiss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- As they were all going out again, he favoured her with one slight roll of his movable eye, desiring her to linger behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- A man in the full swing of his activities in a gay city could not afford to linger long on Egdon Heath. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- But I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They will not linger long. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She watched his eyes linger a moment on Halliday, on Halliday's party. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The footman still lingered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Don't say my John, it isn't proper or true, but Meg's voice lingered over the words as if they sounded pleasant to her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She did not mind it at the minute, for she lingered to answer Hannah's eager inquiry. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Her voice lingered over it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Whereas in Gerald's soul there still lingered some attachment to the rest, to the whole. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I yet lingered half-an-hour longer, hoping to see some sign of amity: but she gave none. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- If she lingered much later dusk would draw on, and Fanny would be put to the trouble of coming to fetch her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The view lingers with regard to the ?sthetic imagination. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Jo, whispers the law-stationer softly as the boy lingers on the step. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Caroline, it seems, cannot, for she lingers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Where what is left among us of deportment, he added, still lingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I am sorry, because I could have wished to keep up a little lingering fragment of respect for him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He has seen my solitary, lingering death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Glad to see you here again, sir, said Pratt, lingering to adjust a blind. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Old Sedley's lingering illness and death supervened, after which a meeting was for some time impossible. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He watched the lingering way she took her feet from the ground. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This done, I rested, leaning against the tree; lingering, like any other mourner, beside a newly-sodded grave. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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