linger

英 ['lɪŋgə] 美 ['lɪŋɡɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"linger"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

linger 逗留，留连

来自古英语lengan,延长，加长，词源同long.引申词义逗留，流连。

linger: linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German längen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into English in the 10th century as leng. By now, ‘lengthen’ had progressed metaphorically via ‘prolong’ to ‘delay’, which is what it meant when linger was derived from it in the 13th century.
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linger (v.): c. 1300, lenger "reside, dwell," northern England frequentative of lengen "to tarry," from Old English lengan "prolong, lengthen," from Proto-Germanic *langjan "to make long" (cognates: Old Frisian lendza, Old High German lengan, Dutch lengen "to lengthen"), source of Old English lang (see long (adj.)). Sense of "delay going, depart slowly and unwillingly" is from 1520s. Related: Lingered; lingering.

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2. Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.: 客人尽可以喝着咖啡逗留到午夜左右。

3. Don't linger away your holidays. Try to find something useful to do.: 不要虚度假日, 尽量找些有意义的事做.

5. Larry didn't linger over his work completely, but he did linger over it to some extent.: 劳里虽未完全磨洋工, 但多少有一点.