Loiter
['lɒɪtə] or ['lɔɪtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be about; 'The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square'; 'Who is this man that is hanging around the department?'.
編輯:波西亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
(v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.
盖尔校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Lag, linger, delay, saunter, dillydally, move slowly.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See LAD]
巴里整理
解釋/意思:
v.i. to delay: to be slow in moving: to linger.—n. Loi′terer.—adv. Loi′teringly.
手打:洛葛仙妮
例句/造句/用法:
- He knew we could not get along without him and that we would not want to loiter about and wait for him. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Now, when we come to St Paul's churchyard,' pursued Eugene, 'we'll loiter artfully, and I'll show you the schoolmaster. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The weather being dark, and piercing cold, he had no great temptation to loiter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But don't loiter, boy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Mind you do it thoroughly, and don't loiter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Why have you been loitering so, Sam? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Did you ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any one loitering about Charles Street? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- They were loitering somewhere, talking about him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We loitered down to the Temple stairs, and stood loitering there, as if we were not quite decided to go upon the water at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This,' said the man: 'I saw three boys: two others and the prisoner here: loitering on the opposite side of the way, when this gentleman was reading. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We loitered down to the Temple stairs, and stood loitering there, as if we were not quite decided to go upon the water at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Having put the Collector into the hands of his servant, Dobbin loitered about, smoking his cigar before the inn door. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Several men in civilian metal loitered near the front entrance and in the rear were others. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- We loitered the morning away in the garden. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A few people loitered about, but the greater part of the population was within doors. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Tom was in attendance, and loitered about until the expected train came in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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