记忆方法
loiter(老爱拖)徘徊，游荡
2. 读：蝼蚁头儿，蝼蚁的头儿不用工作，可以整天游荡!
3. 音：老头；老头可以整天提笼架鸟，四处遛达，游荡
2. 读：蝼蚁头儿，蝼蚁的头儿不用工作，可以整天游荡!
3. 音：老头；老头可以整天提笼架鸟，四处遛达，游荡
中文词源
loiter 逗留，停留
来自Proto-Germanic*lutana,弯腰，蹲下，休息，来自PIE*leud,蜷缩，变小，词源同lout,little.引申词义休息，逗留，停留。
英语词源
- loiter (v.)
- early 15c., "idle one's time, dawdle over work," from Middle Dutch loteren "be loose or erratic, shake, totter" like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work." Probably cognate with Old English lutian "lurk," and related to Old English loddere "beggar;" Old High German lotar "empty, vain," luzen "lurk;" German Lotterbube "vagabond, rascal," lauschen "eavesdrop;" Gothic luton "mislead;" Old English lyðre "base, bad, wicked." Related: Loitered; loitering.
权威例句
- 1. We'll be left behind if we loiter.
- 我们如果游荡,就会落后了.
- 2. Unemployed young men loiter at the entrance of the factory.
- 失业的小年轻在工厂门口游荡。
- 3. He had no great temptation to loiter.
- 他实在没有闲逛的雅兴.
- 4. Don't loiter on your way home from school.
- 不可在放学回家的路上闲逛.
- 5. Don't loiter away your time.
- 别虚掷光阴.