languid

參見：lànguid

英語

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• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd/

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詞源 1

借自拉丁語 languidus (「虛弱的，遲緩的，懶散的」)。

形容詞

languid (比較級 more languid，最高級 most languid)

1. 無精打采的；懶散的，懶洋洋的

   languid movements

   懶散的動作

   languid breathing

   懶洋洋的呼吸

   • March 10 1753, Samuel Johnson (attributed), The Adventurer:

     As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章號 21, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC:

     George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce.

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2. 冷淡的，沒有熱情的
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3. 輕鬆的，閒適的
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 第 1 卷，第 1 頁:

     Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labour, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

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近義詞

(沒有力量的)：

• exhausted
• faint
• listless
• swear/sweer
• weak
• weary

衍生詞彙

• languidly

相關詞彙

• languish
• languor
• languorous

詞源 2

變化自languet。

名詞

languid (複數 languids)

1. （風琴內的）簧片
   • 1913, William Horatio Clarke, Standard Organ Building，第 150 頁:

     As may be required, a small hole is bored in either of the languids, or in the back of the pipe in the space between the two languids. By this means, in addition to the current of air passing between the languids and the lower lip, […]

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參考資料

• 「languid」，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587

異序詞

• Gauldin, dualing, lauding