limp

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n. 跛行 a. 柔软的, 无力的, 软弱的 vi. 跛行

发音

US /lɪmp/

词形变化

limps 复数 limps 三单 limping 现在分词 limped 过去式 limped 过去分词 lamp 过去式 lump 过去式 lump 过去分词 limper 比较级 limper limpest limpest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

柔软的，无力的；软弱的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

    跛行

    She walks with a limp.

  2. 2.

    A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

  3. 1.

    A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

v. B1
  1. 1.

    To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.

    一瘸一拐

    一步一瘸

    跛行

    蹒跚

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.

    比喻 不及物

    The bomber limped home on one engine.

  3. 3.

    To move or proceed irregularly.

    比喻 不及物

    limping verses

    The business limped through the recession

  4. 4.

    To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.

    不及物 俚语 游戏
  5. 1.

    To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.

    不及物
  6. 1.

    To happen; befall; chance.

    不及物 废旧
  7. 2.

    To come upon; meet.

    废旧 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Flaccid; flabby, resembling flesh.

    无力的

    无生气的

    无精神的

    松弛的

  2. 2.

    Lacking stiffness; floppy, flimsy.

    不直挺的

    a limp rope

  3. 3.

    Soft; weak, in special physically weak.

  4. 4.

    Not erect.

    俚语
  5. 5.

    Not having an erection.

    俚语
phr.
  1. 1.

    Acronym of Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of Wales (a code-word among Jacobites)

    历史

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

hitch hobble

上位词 1

gait
动词

同义词 3

hitch gimp hobble

上位词 4

walk continue proceed move ahead
形容词

同义词 1

wilted

近义相关 2

weak lax

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

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