Deadness
[dednis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the inanimate property of something that has died.
(noun.) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity; 'he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls'.
克莱德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
整理:罗拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Torpor, flatness, faintness, heaviness
ANT:Quickness, vitality, life, vivacity
整理:梅纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- It seemed to me impossible: I could not realize such deadness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Trudging round the country and tiring of myself out, I shall keep the deadness off, and get my own bread by my own labour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Twas the deadness again! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There's a deadness steals over me at times, that the kind of life favours and I don't like. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was the deadness, there's not a doubt about it,' returned the man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We have already called attention to its intellectual deadness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When she had spoken to the Secretary of that 'deadness that steals over me at times', her fortitude had made too little of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The result is an inevitable deadness of topics to which attention is invited, but which are so isolated that they do not feed imagination. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I shall be stronger, and keep the deadness off better, this way, than any way left open to me, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I should have thought the deadness was a mild word for it, if it had been named to me when we brought you in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
哈里特編輯