languish / ˈlæŋ gwɪʃ /

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languish2 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
  2. to lose vigor and vitality.
  3. to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress: to languish in prison for ten years.
n. 名词 noun
  1. the act or state of languishing.
  2. a tender, melancholy look or expression.

languish 近义词

v. 动词 verb

droop; become dull, listless

更多languish例句

  1. Other journalists and opposition activists languish in prison on similar charges.
  2. Common sense, uncontroversial ideas tend to languish when attention has moved elsewhere.
  3. Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.
  4. Critical journalists continue to languish in prison and inside the courtrooms the breadth of the clampdown is on full display.
  5. They see people just like them being elevated quickly to power while they languish, and they become envious.
  6. If one could languish through life in the shell of a mere beauty that life would be a good deal simpler proposition than it is.
  7. If a man be poor who wishes to have everything, then an ambitious and a miserly man languish in extreme poverty.
  8. You who will not wish to see her languish—suffer—go mad—Thomas, I am not the raving being you take me for.
  9. Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.
  10. She would be left to languish and die in some awful Moorish prison.