lithe
英语
编辑发音
编辑词源 1
编辑源自中古英語 lithen,源自古英語 līþan (“走,旅行,航行,失去”),源自原始日耳曼語 *līþaną (“走,离开,遭受”),源自原始印歐語 *leyt- (“走,启程,死”)。与北弗里斯蘭語 lyen、lije (“遭受”)、荷蘭語 lijden (“遭受,忍耐,停留”)、德語 leiden (“遭受,忍受,允许”)同源。参见lode、lead。
动词
编辑lithe (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 lithes,現在分詞 lithing,過去式 lithed 或 lode,過去分詞 lithed 或 lidden)
词源 2
编辑源自中古英語 lithe,源自古英語 līþe (“轻柔的”),源自原始西日耳曼語 *linþ(ī),源自原始日耳曼語 *linþaz,源自原始印歐語 *lentos。与薩特弗里斯蘭語 lied (“瘦的,憔悴的”),丹麦语和古德语lind (“温和的”)有关。在哥特语中不可考。一些文献指出拉丁語 lenis (“软的”)和/或拉丁語 lentus (“柔软灵活的”)亦为其同源词。
形容词
编辑lithe (比較級 lither,最高級 lithest)
- (棄用) 轻柔的,宁静的
- 苗条的
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章號 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版於 1915, →OCLC:
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All”, 出自 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle版, Little, Brown Book Group:
- The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 灵活的,柔韧的
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- 灵活的,适应性强的
- 2018年3月8日, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, 出自 The New York Times[1]:
- Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
衍生词汇
编辑相关词汇
编辑词源 3
编辑源自中古英語 lithen,源自古英語 līþian、līþiġian (“使...软,使...宁静,使...缓和,安抚”),源自原始日耳曼語 *linþijaną (“使...软”),源自原始印歐語 *lento- (“有弹性的”)。与德語 lindern (“减轻,缓和”)同源。
动词
编辑lithe
- (不及物,棄用) 平静下来
- (及物,棄用) 使...软,使...平静,缓和,减轻
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
- England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
- 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure
- Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
词源 4
编辑源自中古英語 lithen,源自古諾爾斯語 hlýða (“听”),源自原始日耳曼語 *hliuþijaną (“听”),源自原始印歐語 *ḱlewe- (“听见”)。与丹麥語 lytte (“听”)同源。与古英語 hlēoþor (“声音,声响,嗓音,歌声”)、古英語 hlūd (“吵闹的,洪亮的”)有关。其他见loud。
其他形式
编辑动词
编辑lithe (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 lithes,現在分詞 lithing,一般過去時及過去分詞 lithed)
词源 5
编辑不详,可能变换自lewth。
名词
编辑lithe (複數 lithes)
- (蘇格蘭) 避难所
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
异序词
编辑中古英语
编辑词源 1
编辑名词
编辑lithe (复数 lithes)
- light的另一種寫法
词源 2
编辑名词
编辑lithe
- lyth的另一種寫法