记忆方法
将“languish”分解为“lang”和“uish”。想象语言（lang）因为缺少了某种元素（如氧气）而变得虚弱（uish），如同语言在某种环境中失去活力，缓慢衰退。这样的图像可以帮助记忆“languish”意为衰弱、萎靡不振。
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词族 · languish
中文词源
languish 长期受苦，煎熬
来自PIE*sleg,松的，松散的，词源同lax,slack.引申词义松软无力的，消瘦的，后用来指长期受苦，煎熬。
英语词源
- languish
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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.
权威例句
- 1. Pollard continues to languish in prison.
- 波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。
- 2. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
- 她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
- 3. No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
- 无人清楚如今有多少难民在到处流浪，或有多少人流离失所，在难民营里受苦。
- 4. New products languish on the drawing board.
- 新产品在计划阶段即告失败。
- 5. New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
- 新的发明总会在实验室里多年无人问津.