Languid

(a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

(a.) Slow in progress; tardy.

(a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.

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• The weak and languid appearance of the troops, so visible before, disappeared at once. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Mr Wegg, in a languid transport, again dropped over on Mr Venus, and again recovering himself, masked his emotions with a sneeze. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But in a moment she re-assumed her self-possession; and her languid eyes recovered their brilliancy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If I do come back, said he, forcing a languid smile, mind let me find you married, and rich enough to lend me an occasional hundred pounds or two. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Yes, she answered, laying down her work, which she had been carrying on with a languid semi-consciousness, most unlike her usual self. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She looked languid, full of a suffering sweetness; she carried a scent-bottle in her hand. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Did his languid air attest that he also was struck with contagion? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It is almost too troublesome to her languid eyes to bestow a look upon him as she asks this question. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Marie lifted her large eyes on her cousin with an air of some curiosity, and received her with languid politeness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She listened with languid civility. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Besides them, there was but one other passenger--a young lady, whom a gentlemanly, though languid-looking man escorted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She looked as fresh as Shirley when both were dressed, only that Miss Keeldar's eyes were lively, and Miss Helstone's languid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Of course you have seen my fire, she answered with languid calmness, artificially maintained. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She lifted her head with the quick motion of revived sensation; she shot, not a languid, but a lifelike, questioning glance at Fanny. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But it gets,' remarked Lightwood, with a languid inclination of the head, 'into excellent hands. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Too languid to sting, he had the more venom refluent in his blood. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She pressed Mrs. Hale's soft languid hand; and rose up and went her way out of the house without seeing a creature. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It was not, however, able to stop altogether the progress of these colonies, though it rendered it more slow and languid. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And these were her longest speeches and clearest communications: the rest was only a languid Yes, yes; very well; did you? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Slight exertion at this time left me overcome with fatigue--sleepless nights entailed languid days. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Half an hour followed that would have been at least languid under any other circumstances, but Fanny's happiness still prevailed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• These recitals, Jem, in a languid manner, received with 'charming! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• For whom everything must be languid and pretty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The facility takes off from the force of the passive habits by rendering the motion of the spirits faint and languid. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Theirs is the dewy bloom of morning, the languid flush of evening, the peace of the moon, the changefulness of clouds. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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