词族 · livelong
词形变化
中文词源
livelong 整个的
来自中古英语leve longe,长久的，leve,爱，即love,此处表强调义，longe,长，即long.后受live影响拼写俗化。
英语词源
- livelong (adj.)
- also live-long, c. 1400, lefe longe (day), from leve, lief "dear" (see lief), used here as an emotional intensive + long (adj). From late 16c. conformed in spelling to live (v.) as lief grew strange. German has cognate die liebe lange Nacht, literally "the dear long night."
权威例句
- 1. She sat beside her husband through the livelong night.
- 她坐在她丈夫的身边度过一个漫漫长夜.
- 2. He likes to and fish all the livelong day.
- 他喜欢整天其他事都不干,专心于钓鱼.
- 3. Also without somebody breathing down your neck all the livelong day!
- 没人整天跟在你屁股后面也比较得心应手吧?
- 4. She has eaten nothing this livelong day.
- 她整整一天没有吃东西.
- 5. To tell one's name ? the livelong June?
- 整个六月?对着一洼无知的沼泽?