languorous
languorous 英 ['læŋɡərəs] 美 ['læŋɡərəs]
adj. 怠惰的；无力的
- To be languorous is to be dreamy, lackadaisical, and languid. When someone is languorous, she’s lying around, daydreaming, possibly fanning herself lazily. It’s a little self-indulgent.
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- adj. 怠惰的；无力的
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1. And Keats — my heart aches — murmuring of love and languorous death.
而看到济慈诗集--我的心好痛--绵绵之爱，死亡无息。
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2. Photograph by Michael NicholsTigers, like this female in India’s Bandhavgarh National Park, spend hot days in a languorous laze, storing energy for nights of hunting.
如图中这只印度班达迦国家公园的雌老虎，在炎热的天气里老虎总是没精打采的打瞌睡，以为夜里的捕猎积蓄能量。
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3. Bob Bowman, longtime coach of swimming phenom Michael Phelps, was once asked why Phelps did not swim the languorous distance sets that were part of some other competitors' regimens.
游泳天才菲尔普斯的教练鲍曼曾经被问及，为什么菲尔普斯不做令人厌倦的长距离游泳训练？ 而长距离游泳正是其他竞争对手训练的一部分。
- languorous (adj.) late 15c., "mournful," from Old French langoros "ill, ailing, suffering, languishing" (11c., Modern French langoureux), from langor "sickness, weakness" (see languor). Meaning "suggestive of languor, weariness, or want of energy," often with a suggestion of seductiveness, is from 1821. Related: Languorously; languorousness.
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