languish 的 2 个定义
- to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- to lose vigor and vitality.
- to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress: to languish in prison for ten years.
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- the act or state of languishing.
- a tender, melancholy look or expression.
languish 近义词
droop; become dull, listless
更多languish例句
- Other journalists and opposition activists languish in prison on similar charges.
- Common sense, uncontroversial ideas tend to languish when attention has moved elsewhere.
- Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.
- Critical journalists continue to languish in prison and inside the courtrooms the breadth of the clampdown is on full display.
- They see people just like them being elevated quickly to power while they languish, and they become envious.
- 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.
- If a man be poor who wishes to have everything, then an ambitious and a miserly man languish in extreme poverty.
- You who will not wish to see her languish—suffer—go mad—Thomas, I am not the raving being you take me for.
- Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.
- She would be left to languish and die in some awful Moorish prison.