Droop
[druːp] or [drup]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Wilt, wither, fade.[2]. Languish, faint, sink, fail, decline, grow weak, be dispirited.
杰里米整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sink, flag, decline, pine, languish, drop, bend, incurve, fade
ANT:Revive, flourish, luxuriate, prosper, rally, raise
手打:丽塔
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:诺顿
例句/造句/用法:
- She would not permit the gardens to be neglected, nor the very flowers in the cottage lattices to droop from want of care. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He has the faded appearance of a gentleman in embarrassed circumstances; even his light whiskers droop with something of a shabby air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She might droop, and flush, and flutter to his arms, as to her natural home and resting-place. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 維萊特.
- Few cared to buy flowers in summer, and her bouquets began to droop long before night. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He soon began to droop his head again, and roll it heavily, and speak as if he were half awake. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She noiselessly paced to and fro the carpeted floor, her head drooped, her hands folded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Bella's eyes followed him to the door, lighted on Mr Boffin complacently thrown back in his easy chair, and drooped over her book. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- All drooped low in the saddles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The reflection brought back the yielding of her face and form as she had drooped under his gaze. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mrs. Corney drooped her head, when the beadle said this; the beadle drooped his, to get a view of Mrs. Corney's face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Her words were smothered in her throat, and her head drooped down. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- My flagging spirits asked for something to speak to the affections; and not finding it, I drooped. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Here, however, an object presented itself, which rekindled their hopes, and reanimated their drooping spirits. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless. 威爾基·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I trust not, said Justinian, who stood sternly under the drooping folds of the Union Jack, but I doubt it while Caliphronas is alive. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Before he left the room, he appointed a time for them to come to him; and so, with his gray head drooping, went away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He cowers and droops. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He is so low that he droops on the threshold and has hardly strength of mind to enter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The mind flags beneath the weight of thought, and droops in the heartless intercourse of those whose sole aim is amusement. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
手打:拉蒙纳