linger

英 ['l??g?] 美['l??ɡ?]

CET6TEM4IELTSGRE考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數:?lingers;過去式:?lingered;過去分詞:?lingered;現在分詞:?lingering;

分析：ling——“鈴”的拼音；er——“兒”的拼音。
記憶：上課的鈴聲都響了，兒子還逗留在課室外面。

linger 逗留，留連

來自古英語lengan,延長，加長，詞源同long.引申詞義逗留，流連。

linger: linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German l?ngen 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.
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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.

2. Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.: 客人盡可以喝著咖啡逗留到午夜左右。

3. Don't linger away your holidays. Try to find something useful to do.: 不要虛度假日, 盡量找些有意義的事做.

5. Larry didn't linger over his work completely, but he did linger over it to some extent.: 勞里雖未完全磨洋工, 但多少有一點.