lithe

参见：liþe 和 -lithe

英语

发音

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词源 1

源自中古英语 lithen，源自古英语 līþan (“走，旅行，航行，失去”)，源自原始日耳曼语 *līþaną (“走，离开，遭受”)，源自原始印欧语 *leyt- (“走，启程，死”)。与北弗里斯兰语 lyen、lije (“遭受”)、荷兰语 lijden (“遭受，忍耐，停留”)、德语 leiden (“遭受，忍受，允许”)同源。参见lode、lead。

动词

lithe (第三人称单数简单现在时 lithes，现在分词 lithing，过去式 lithed 或 lode，过去分词 lithed 或 lidden)

1. (不及物，弃用) 走，去

词源 2

源自中古英语 lithe，源自古英语 līþe (“轻柔的”)，源自原始西日耳曼语 *linþ(ī)，源自原始日耳曼语 *linþaz，源自原始印欧语 *lentos。与萨特弗里斯兰语 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。一些文献指出拉丁语 lenis (“软的”)和/或拉丁语 lentus (“柔软灵活的”)亦为其同源词。

形容词

lithe (比较级 lither，最高级 lithest)

1. (弃用) 轻柔的，宁静的

   近义词：clement、gentle、mellow

   lithe weather

   宁静的天气

2. 苗条的

   近义词：lithesome、lissome、swack

   lithe body

   修长的身子

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章号 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版于 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.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

3. 灵活的，柔韧的

   近义词：pliant、flexible、limber

   the elephant’s lithe proboscis

   大象灵活的长鼻

   • 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125

     … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

4. 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.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

衍生词汇

• litheness

相关词汇

• -inda
• lind
• linden
• Linda

词源 3

源自中古英语 lithen，源自古英语 līþian、līþiġian (“使...软，使...宁静，使...缓和，安抚”)，源自原始日耳曼语 *linþijaną (“使...软”)，源自原始印欧语 *lento- (“有弹性的”)。与德语 lindern (“减轻，缓和”)同源。

动词

lithe

1. (不及物，弃用) 平静下来
2. (及物，弃用) 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.

词源 4

源自中古英语 lithen，源自古诺尔斯语 hlýða (“听”)，源自原始日耳曼语 *hliuþijaną (“听”)，源自原始印欧语 *ḱlewe- (“听见”)。与丹麦语 lytte (“听”)同源。与古英语 hlēoþor (“声音，声响，嗓音，歌声”)、古英语 hlūd (“吵闹的，洪亮的”)有关。其他见loud。

其他形式

• lythe

动词

lithe (第三人称单数简单现在时 lithes，现在分词 lithing，一般过去时及过去分词 lithed)

1. (不及物，弃用) 听取
2. (及物) 倾听，聆听

词源 5

不详，可能变换自lewth。

名词

lithe (复数 lithes)

1. (苏格兰) 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.

异序词

• Leith, Theil, Thiel, lieth

中古英语

词源 1

名词

lithe (复数 lithes)

1. light的另一种写法

词源 2

名词

lithe

1. lyth的另一种写法