turgid
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自拉丁語 turgidus (“肿胀的”)，源自turgeō (“肿胀”)。
发音
编辑形容词
编辑turgid (比較級 more turgid，最高級 most turgid)
- 肿胀的，浮肿的
- 近義詞：bloated、distended、inflated、swelled、swollen、tumescent、tumid、turgescent
- I have a turgid limb.
- （請為本使用例添加中文翻譯）
- 2004, Harold McGee, 章號 5, 出自 On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
- A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- (指辞藻) 浮夸的，浮华的，卖弄的
- 1976, William Zinsser, On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition, Kindle版, Harper Perennial, 出版於 2012, →ISBN，第 172 頁:
- These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: television and U.S. fiction”, 出自 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle版, Little, Brown Book Group:
- Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）