languish
['læŋgwiʃ]
v.衰弱无力, 失去活力, 受苦, 憔悴
例句与用法:
The flower languished from lack of water.
花因缺水而枯萎。
My interest in music has languished slightly.
我对音乐的兴趣有点减退。
词形变化:
副词: languishingly | 名词: languisher | 动词过去式: languished | 动词过去分词: languished | 动词现在分词: languishing | 动词第三人称单数: languishes |
vi.
1. 变得无生气, 衰弱
We all languished in the tropical climate.
受热带气候影响, 我们都变得倦怠乏力。
2. (植物等)凋萎
3. 长期受苦
He languished in poverty most of his life.
他大半辈子在贫穷中呻吟。
4. 焦思, 因渴望而苦恼[(+for)]
She languished for her children who had migrated to Australia.
她苦苦思念着移居澳大利亚的儿女。
短语词组:
languish for
1. 苦思
He languished for home.
他苦苦地思念家乡。
languish
过去式:languished
过去分词:languished
现在进行时:languishing
词形变化:
副词: languishingly | 名词: languisher | 动词过去式: languished | 动词过去分词: languished | 动词现在分词: languishing | 动词第三人称单数: languishes |
同义词:
weaken | fail | pine | flag | decline | diminish | grieve | sink | pine away | suffer | deteriorate | fade away | long for | teeter | ebb | fade | droop | devitalize | sag | yield | wither | abate | wilt | dwindle | abandoned | rot | fag | exhaust | fatigue | enfeeble | weary | debilitate | tire | enervate | sicken | repine | bewail | drop | lament | sigh | bemoan | fall | swoon | mope | mourn | stagger | despond | collapse | sulk | sleep | despair | covet | lessen | drowse | go downhill | listless | pine for | yearn for | downhill | hunger for | thirst for | yearn | go | die for | cry for | pant for | grow | waste | give | yen | lose heart | heart | give up | ache | lower | lose | up | hunger | pant | for | die | rave | cry | thirst |
反义词:
词义辨析:
同义:
v.变得衰弱无力, 失去活力
droop
fade
fail
wilt
weaken
decline
sag
yield
devitalize
enfeeble
debilitate
enervate
fag
weary
tire
exhaust
fatigue
flag
grow listless
wither
ebb
sicken
go downhill
v.晕厥, 昏倒, 困倦
drop
sink
stagger
swoon
fall
sleep
collapse
v.凋萎, 衰败
rot
ebb
abate
dwindle
diminish
abandoned
v.渴望, 焦思
pine for
yearn for
hunger for
thirst for
die for
cry for
pant for
rave for
covet
v.悲痛, 伤心, 绝望, 忧郁, 作出令人爱怜的倦态
grieve
mourn
lament
repine
pine
bewail
bemoan
despond
despair
lose heart
give up
mope
sigh
sulk
同义参见:
lower1
drowse
lessen
wilt1
反义:
vi.衰弱; 受折磨; 渴望
encourage
inspire
thrive
flourish
satiate
languish['læŋɡwiʃ]vi.1.■失去活力;变得衰弱无力;枯萎,凋谢:The leaves languished from lack of water.树叶因缺水而枯萎。2.■受折磨;受苦;呻吟:to languish for years in poverty常年为贫穷所困3.■松懈,松弛,懈怠:Our vigilance never languished.我们的警惕性从来没有放松过。4.■焦虑,苦思;渴望:The mother languished for the sight of her daughter.母亲苦苦地渴望见到女儿。5.■显得亲切伤感的样子,做出含情脉脉的伤感之态:The girl languished at him with her staring eyes.女孩目不转睛呆呆地望着他。
languishlanguish[ˈlæŋɡwiʃ]vi.1.■变得衰弱无力; 失去活力; 失去兴趣2.■憔悴, 潦倒; (植物等)凋萎3.■焦思, 因渴望而苦恼(for)4.■松弛, 放松5.■作出惹人爱怜的倦态[伤感之态]languish for home因思家而憔悴His vigilance never languished.他的警觉从未松懈下来。His interest in the poetry has languished recently.最近他对诗歌的兴趣减退了。The flowers languished from lack of water.花因缺水而凋萎。
词性变化languish[ˈlæŋɡwiʃ]n.1.■愁思伤感或亲切温柔的模样2.■憔悴
继承用法languishern.languishment[ˈlæŋɡwɪʃmənt]n.
verb
[no obj.]
- (of a person or other living thing) lose or lack vitality; grow weak or feeble
(人,生物)衰弱
plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant.
植物可能只是因休眠而显得无精打采。
■fail to make progress or be successful
不能前进,受阻
Kelso languish near the bottom of the Scottish First Division.
凯尔索队在苏格兰甲级联赛榜尾徘徊。
■(archaic)pine with love or grief
(古)思恋,哀思
she still languished after Richard.
她还在苦苦思恋着理查德。
■(archaic)assume or display a sentimentally tender or melancholy expression or tone
(古)(表情,语调)显得多愁善感
when a visitor comes in, she smiles and languishes.
有客来访时,她先笑一笑,继而愁容满面。 - be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation
受苦,受折磨
he has been languishing in a Mexican jail since 1974.
1974年以来他一直在墨西哥一监狱中受折磨。
languisher
noun
languishingly
adverb
languishment
noun
- (古)
- Middle English (in the sense 'become faint, feeble, or ill'): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir 'languish', from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus 'loose, lax'
languish
动词 languish:
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
become feeble
同义词:fade
languish
■Truth may languish But can never perish.
"真理可能衰微, 但不会灭亡"
■The 17-year-old Wie had the worst round of the day, shooting 12-over par to languish in 69th place.
17岁是心理有一轮最差的一天,射击12-超过相提并论萎靡在第69位。
■Judah mourns, And her gates languish; In black they mourn on the ground, And the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
2犹大悲哀,城门衰败;众人披着黑衣坐在地上悲哀,耶路撒冷的哀声上扬。
■He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish, And the sprout of Lebanon languishes.
4?斥责海,使海干了,使一切江河干涸。巴珊和迦密的树林衰残,利巴嫩的花草也衰残了。
■The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
4地上悲哀衰残,世界败落衰残,地上居高位的人也败落了。
■languish for
v. 因渴望而苦恼
■NIV] The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.
[和合]地上悲哀衰残;世界败落衰残;地上居高位的人也败落了。
■KJV] Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
[新译]“犹大悲哀,她的城镇(城镇”原文作“城门”)落,人人都坐在地上悲伤痛哭;耶路撒冷的哀声上达于天。
■KJV] The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
[新译]大地悲哀衰残,世界零落衰残,地上居高位的人也衰败了。
■KJV] The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
[新译]打鱼的人必哀号;所有在尼罗河上垂钓的必悲伤;那些在水面上撒网的,必灰心难过。
■Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
“犹大悲哀,她的城镇(“城镇”原文作“城门”)衰落,人人都坐在地上悲伤痛哭;耶路撒冷的哀声上达于天。
■to languish for
为.而憔悴
■Traditional Chinese Medicine researches considerate languish on the essence of it, grope for the modernization road of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
为了中医学的生存和发展,中医药研究人员苦苦思索着中医学的本质,探索着中医学的现代化道路。
■to languish in poverty
为贫穷所困
■Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
也不要在慢嚼的嘴里虚耗。
■Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
也不要在慢嚼的嘴里虚耗掉。
■In fact, a fleet of several hundred buses was left to languish in a lot that eventually flooded.
事实上,那数百辆巴士最终被淹没。
■Five odors choke our noses to make us languish in thinking.
五种气味,呛我们的鼻子,连带地使我们思维呆滞。
■They themselves shall be like watered gardens, never again shall they languish.
他们的心灵要好象受灌溉的田园,再也不感憔悴。
■"He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.
伯17:5控告他的朋友、以朋友为可抢夺的、连他儿女的眼睛、也要失明。
■But beyond the prosperous cities, millions of people still languish in poverty.
但在繁荣的城市之外,还有成百上千万人仍然在贫困中煎熬。
■But her productivity tips belie a Zen-like balance in which she isolates the most important things and lets other things languish if need be.
但是她的技巧就是违背禅似的平衡,那就是隔离出最重要的事情,有必要的话就让其他事情隐却。
■But the dollar continues to languish near 15-month lows against a basket of currencies.
但是,美元兑一揽子货币的汇价已经跌到了15个月低点附近。
■You soul will languish for eternity
你们的灵魂将在痛苦中煎熬
■Are you drowning your life with too much of a good thing or killing your life slowly by leaving it to languish, dehydrated and starved of crucial life-saving nutrients?
你属于那一种呢?沉醉于自己生命的美好,或是一步步把自己的生命带进痛苦,看它逐渐失水丧失营养死亡。
■Your soul will languish for eternity.
你的灵魂将永远枯萎。
■Yells: Your soul will languish for eternity.
你的灵魂将永远调零!
■There is none of the tendency to sing outside of my lady's window--to languish and repine in the face of difficulties.
像他这种人可不会在情人的窗外唱小夜曲--也不会在遇到挫折时憔悴或者呻吟。
■Kelso languish near the bottom of the Scottish First Division.
凯尔索队在苏格兰甲级联赛榜尾徘徊。
■How doth Thy visage languish that once was bright as morn!
原本俊俏似晨光,今竟憔悴神伤。
■Opponents still argue that those who exercise choice will be the most able and committed, and by clustering themselves together in better schools they will abandon the weak and voiceless to languish in rotten ones.
反对者仍然坚持认为那些择校的人一半能力很强,很执着,通过往好学校扎堆儿,他们把那些处于弱势地位、没有代言人的学生留在差等学校慢慢受煎熬。
■Languish for home
因思家而憔悴。
■While spending heavily on new models to pump up Oldsmobile, GM let Saturn languish, and its sales shriveled.
在投入巨资开发奥兹莫比新车型的同时,通用汽车让土星自生自灭,其销售也开始枯竭。
■to languish in enemy prison
在敌人监狱中备受折磨
■Legislation that continued to languish in committee
在这个委员会里继续被搁置的方法
■The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.
地上悲哀衰残,世界败落衰残;地上居高位的人也败落了。
■Local governments deny they are becoming lax, yet complaints against employers languish in huge backlogs as many are simply shuttering their factories.
地方政府否认管理松懈,但对雇主的大量申诉却无人理睬,很多雇主只是将工厂关闭了事。
■She languish for her children who have migrate to Australia.
她苦苦思念着移居澳大利亚的儿女。
■She languish for her children who have migrate to australia
她苦苦思念著移居澳大利亚的儿女
■She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
■Several of the most populous nations in the world languish at the lower end of the table. India, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt are all in the bottom 10.
好几个世界人口大国的排名都很靠后。印度、巴基斯坦、土耳其和埃及都在后10名之列。
■Romalia can be left to languish if it doesn't enter the world stage.
如果不进入国际舞台,罗姆利亚会逐渐在国际上没落。
■Great ideas can languish in our subconscious if we don't take the time to reflect and digest the techniques we devised during past projects.
如果我们不去思考和消化从过去的项目中总结出来的技巧,一些伟大的创意就会在不经意间消失。
■The children soon began to languish in the heat.
孩子们很快就热得懒洋洋的了.
■Interns can pitch in to support projects that might otherwise languish on a back burner.
实习生们可以投入那些原本可能会被搁置一旁的项目。
■Under the objective conditions, some are stubborn, nonnegotiable and unfriendly. With age increasing, some become senile and their spirit languish, like withered tree without vitality.
客观环境中有些人僵硬顽固、坚持己见,很难与之沟通、相处;有些人随着年岁增长,形体日益衰老,精神萎靡,像一棵凋零的老树般毫无生气。
■32 Under the objective conditions, some are stubborn, nonnegotiable and unfriendly. With age increasing, some become senile and their spirit languish, like withered tree without vitality.
客观环境中有些人僵硬顽固、坚持己见,很难与之沟通、相处;有些人随著年岁增长,形体日益衰老,精神萎靡,像一棵凋零的老树般毫无生气。
■2、For Somalis, the simple fact that pirates offer jobs is enough to gain their esteem, even as hostages languish on ships for months.
对于索马里人而言尽管船上的人质因被挟持数月而憔悴,但海盗提供了许多就业机会,仅此一点就足以赢得他们的尊重。
■Chicken sales are down at markets and restaurants,and caged birds languish unsold in pet shops.
市场和餐厅鸡的销售量一落千丈,宠物店鸟笼里憔悴的鸟也无人问津。
■Hopefully early adopters of the Internet such as the United States will continue investment in Internet infrastructure improvements and not let this trend languish.
希望互联网的先行者(比如美国),将会继续在互联网的基础设施上投资,不让这种趋势衰竭。
languish for
1. 苦思
He languished for home.
他苦苦地思念家乡。