单词 | 憔悴 |
释义 | 〔drawn〕a wan, drawn face.一张苍白而憔悴的脸〔reduce〕was reduced almost to emaciation.衰弱到近乎憔悴〔pine〕To wither or waste away from longing or grief:消瘦,憔悴:因怀念、痛苦而消瘦或衰弱:〔drawn〕Haggard, as from fatigue or ill health:憔悴的:憔悴的,如因疲劳或身体不好引起的:〔gaunt〕Emaciated and haggard; drawn.消瘦的,憔悴的;细长的〔rot〕To languish; decline:消瘦,憔悴:失去活力;走向毁灭:〔skeleton〕One that is very thin or emaciated.瘦骨如柴的人(或动物):瘦而憔悴的东西〔haggard〕Don't lose so much weight that you look haggard.别瘦太多,不然你会变得很憔悴的。〔haggard〕Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.憔悴的:显得疲惫的和筋疲力尽的;瘦弱的〔Echo〕A nymph whose unrequited love for Narcissus caused her to pine away until nothing but her voice remained.艾科:单恋纳西索斯的仙女,憔悴消损最后只留下声音〔scrawny〕Gaunt and bony.See Synonyms at lean 2憔悴的,骨瘦如柴的 参见 lean2〔haggard〕Her eyes were haggard and cavernous.她的眼睛深陷,十分地憔悴。〔peak〕To become sickly, emaciated, or pale.消瘦,憔悴:变得消瘦、憔悴或呈病态的苍白〔peaked〕Having a sickly appearance:呈病态面容的,憔悴的:〔haggard〕"I was shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face" (Charles Dickens).“我看到他那张年轻英俊的脸上显出憔悴的神色,十分地吃惊” (查尔斯·狄更斯)。〔scarecrow〕A gaunt or haggard person.憔悴或衣衫褴褛的人〔lean〕Rawboned suggests a thin, bony, gangling build: Rawboned 暗示瘦削、憔悴、难看的体格: 〔form〕"Europe is disclosed as a prone and emaciated figure, the Alps shaping like a backbone, and the branching mountain chains like ribs, the peninsular plateau of Spain forming a head" (Thomas Hardy).“欧洲象一个前倾而憔悴的人,阿尔卑斯山脉象他的脊椎,支脉象肋骨,西班牙的半岛高原则形成头” (托马斯·哈代)。〔echo〕One might think that our wordecho is from the name of the nymph Echo, whom Greek mythology associates with echoes.According to one version of her story,she was torn to pieces by shepherds driven to this act by the god Pan, who was hopelessly in love with her.Pieces of Echo hidden in the ground still respond to Pan's frenzied cries,producing the phenomena known as echoes.A second version of her tale has it that Echo, as a penalty for distracting Hera from observing Zeus's infidelities, lost all power of speech,except the ability to reply.This defect lost her the love of Narcissus,which caused Echo to pine away until only her voice was left.The hapless nymph, however, cannot even claim credit for echoesbecause the Greek wordēkhō, the source of Englishecho, existed with our common noun sense before any mention of Echo is found.Our wordecho is first recorded in Middle English in a work composed in 1340. 您可能想到echo 这个词来自仙女埃科的名字, 她在希腊神话中与回声有关。关于她的故事,有一种说法认为,神潘爱她无望,便指使牧羊狗将她撕成碎片。她的碎片藏在地下时仍在回答潘的疯狂叫喊,于是产生了回声。另一种说法是,埃科使得赫拉察觉不到宙斯的不忠,作为惩罚被剥夺了说话的能力,只能重复别人的话。这个缺陷使她失去了纳西色斯的爱情,于是埃科不断憔悴消损,最后只留下她的声音。可惜的是这位不幸的女神并不能因为制造了回声这个词而居功,因为希腊语ekho , 即英语中echo 的来源, 早在任何关于埃科的故事之前就存在了。我们现在的词echo 最早是在1340年出现于中世纪英文作品中 〔genre〕"Emaciated famine victims . . . on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent"(Helen Kitchen)“很憔悴的饥荒受害者…在电视上引起了对这个大陆的一种新型的注意”(海伦·基钦)〔harridan〕Possibly from French haridelle [gaunt woman, old horse, nag] 可能源自 法语 haridelle [憔悴的女人,老马,尤指爱唠叨的女人] 〔sad〕"His sorrow . . . made him look . . . haggard and . . . woebegone" (George du Maurier).“他的悲伤…使他看起来…憔悴且…愁眉苦脸” (乔治·杜·莫里耶)。〔lean〕Gaunt implies thinness and boniness and a haggard appearance;it may suggest illness or hardship: Gaunt 暗示瘦削、骨头突出而且憔悴的外表;也暗示有病或历经艰辛: 〔forworn〕Worn-out.破旧的,耗尽的,疲惫不堪的,憔悴的〔languish〕To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions.憔悴:存在于或继续处于悲惨或沮丧的境况中 |
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