linger

lingers 是 linger 的第三人称单数,页面展示原形释义。
英 [ˈlɪŋ.ɡər] 美 [ˈlɪŋ.ɡɚ]
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  • vi. 徘徊;苟延残喘;磨蹭
  • vt. 消磨;缓慢度过
  • n. (Linger)人名;(德、捷、瑞典)林格;(法)兰热
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记忆方法

分析:ling——“铃”的拼音;er——“儿”的拼音。
记忆:上课的铃声都响了,儿子还逗留在课室外面。
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词族 · linger

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中文词源

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。

英语词源

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.
=> long
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.

权威例句

1. When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.
废除了种族隔离政策后痼疾依然存在。
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.
4. His last words still linger in our ears.
他的临终嘱咐仍萦绕在我们耳际.
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.

词语辨析

【wander, linger】
wander: 指毫无目的地来回走动 wander about a place :漫游某处
linger: 指“想在呆一会儿,留恋不舍而逗留徘徊”,linger about a place在某处留恋不舍

【stay, remain, linger】
这组词都有“停留,逗留”的意思,其区别是:
stay: 普通用词,多指人在某地暂时逗留。有时可指较长时间的居留。
remain: 指某人或某物仍留在原处或保持原来的状态。
linger: 着重因愉快的事而使人不愿离开。

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