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lingeringly

/ling-ger/US // ˈlɪŋ gər //UK // (ˈlɪŋɡə) //

徘徊不前,萦绕在心的,徘徊不前的,缠绵

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
    • : to remain alive; continue or persist, although gradually dying, ceasing, disappearing, etc.: She lingered a few months after the heart attack. Such practices still linger among the older natives.
    • : to dwell in contemplation, thought, or enjoyment: to linger over the beauty of a painting.
    • : to be tardy in action; delay; dawdle: to linger in discharging one's duties.
    • : to walk slowly; saunter along.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to pass in a leisurely or a tedious manner: We lingered away the whole summer at the beach.
    • : Archaic. to draw out or protract.

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Examples

  • If you’re going for a run or a bike ride, carry a mask in your pocket and avoid busy streets where passersby linger.

  • Ives notes the timing for inclusion is still up in the air, but “another quarter of profitability would help answer any lingering questions that S&P have,” he notes.

  • Despite many gaps between stones, sounds briefly lingered inside Stonehenge Lego, the team found.

  • Previously, some people in Japan and elsewhere had tested positive twice for the virus weeks apart, but doctors had concluded that those results were due to test errors or lingering infection.

  • Then, for the same period, they identified marine heat waves occurring around the world, where water temperatures for a region lingered in the highest 10 percent ever recorded for that place and that time of year.

  • His unusual request raised eyebrows in Germany, where dark memories of the Berlin Wall linger on.

  • Cuomo was asked to show up an hour early, but he evidently did not want to linger at the debate site.

  • One Republican consultant wondered how long Bridgegate will linger.

  • And when they linger open for just a few seconds longer than usual, it signals a dreaded delay.

  • For a writer who was a master of reduction, never one to linger on the passing view, this was an unusually effulgent paragraph.

  • They didn't linger long at Benton, but got under way and marched overland to the Cypress Hills.

  • As she said the last word, she looked at Baroudi, and her voice seemed to linger on the word as on a word beloved.

  • But one would linger long on the way if hePg 83 paused at every landmark on the Southampton road.

  • It is better to leave while all will regret you, than to linger on until you have worn out your welcome.

  • Of no part of our tour does a pleasanter memory linger than of the five or six hundred miles on the highways of Wales.