languish
vi. 憔悴；凋萎；失去活力；苦思
vi.
憔悴，潦倒；（草木等）凋萎；失去活力；烦恼，焦思
n.
憔悴；惹人怜爱的感伤模样[倦态等]；脉脉含情；
变形
过去式：languished过去分词：languished现在分词：languishing第三人称单数：languishes
英英释义
languish[ 'læŋɡwiʃ ]
v.
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
同义词：pine awaywaste
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
同义词：acheyearnyenpine
become feeble
"The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
同义词：fade
双语例句
用作动词(v.)
Shares now languish around $13 per share.
股价现在衰弱到了每股%2413左右。
The housing market continues to languish.
房地产市场继续低迷。
My interest in music has languished slightly.
我对音乐的兴趣有点减退。
The flower languished from lack of water.
花因缺水而枯萎。
The children soon began to languish in the heat.
孩子们很快就热得懒洋洋的了.
In the Tower of London,prisoners used to languish in chains,cold,and darkness.
过去，在伦敦塔里的囚犯受到镣铐、寒冷和阴暗的折磨。
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。
权威例句
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Why do Profitable Energy-Saving Investment Projects Languish?
As Donors Focus on AIDS, Child Illnesses Languish
Whistle-Blower Suits Languish at Justice
When the paradigms languish.
Bird flu data languish in Chinese journals
THE ROAD TO UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY LICENSING IS LITTERED WITH PATENTS THAT LANGUISH
Science posts languish (vol 80, pg 34, 2002)
Creating Contagious: How Social Networks and Item Characteristics Combine to Drive Persistent Social Epidemics
languish
languish: see relish
languish (v.)
early 14c., "fail in strength, exhibit signs of approaching death," from languiss-, present participle stem of Old French languir "be listless, pine, grieve, fall ill," from Vulgar Latin *languire, from Latin languere "be weak or faint" (see lax). Weaker sense "be lovesick, grieve, lament, grow faint," is from mid-14c. Related: Languished; languishing.
1. Truth may languish But can never perish.
"真理可能衰微, 但不会灭亡"
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语
2. to languish for
为.而憔悴
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
3. languish as with love or desire.
带着心愿或者爱好苦思。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
4. languish for home and family.
苦苦思念家和家庭
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
5. languish for home
因思家而憔悴
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
6. legislation that continued to languish in committee.
在这个委员会里继续被搁置的方法
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
7. to wither; to fade; to languish
萎谢
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
8. to languish in enemy prison
在敌人监狱中备受折磨
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
9. languish for love, company, sympathy
渴望得到爱、 相伴、 同情而憔悴.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
10. New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
新的发明都将在实验室里孕育多年。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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