英语词汇“linger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINlinger

Origin:

1200-1300 leng ‘to lengthen, delay’ (11-16 centuries), from Old English lengan

VERB TABLE

linger

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	linger
	he, she, it	lingers
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	lingered
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have lingered
	he, she, it	has lingered
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had lingered
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will linger
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have lingered

Continuous Form
Present	I	am lingering
	he, she, it	is lingering
	you, we, they	are lingering
Past	I, he, she, it	was lingering
	you, we, they	were lingering
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been lingering
	he, she, it	has been lingering
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been lingering
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be lingering
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been lingering

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A few fans lingered on after the concert was over.
As she lingered over her coffee, the sky began to darken and heavy rain clouds swept in.
Doubts about Manzi's honesty still linger on.
Garlic has a taste which tends to linger in your mouth.
I lingered on the sidewalk outside the old house, wondering who lived there now.
Jack lingered for a while in the hall, hoping to get the chance to talk with her.
She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
Summer weather has lingered longer than usual.
The faint smell of cigar smoke lingered on in the room.
Uncle Gene lingered on a year longer than doctors expected.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But the memory of that last family holiday together in Orkney lingers for ever.
Derek, in a show of good manners, lingered long enough to exchange a few remarks.
It usually takes several days for the pain to subside, although it can linger for weeks.
Outside the church many parishioners lingered, distributing leaflets and gossiping.
Spike, still feeling in disgrace, comes in with her but lingers in the doorway.
The chromium, used to prevent pipe corrosion, was released from 1951 until 1966, but lingered in groundwater.
The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode.
We lingered, not just because of the food but also because of the view out the picture window.

THESAURUS► stay

to not leave a place, or to be in a place for a particular period of time: · Stay where you are and don’t move.· John only stayed at the party for a couple of hours.

► remain

formal to stay somewhere. In written English, people often prefer to use remain rather than stay, because it sounds more formal: · Some 2,000 protesters remained outside the building and refused to leave.· The judge recommended that he remain in jail for the rest of his life.

► linger

to stay in a place a little longer than you need to, because you are enjoying yourself, or because you hope to see someone or something: · He lingered outside the lecture hall, hoping for a chance to talk to her.· There are plenty of small cafés where you can linger over a cappuccino.

► loiter

to stay in a place not doing anything – used when you think someone is waiting for the chance to do something bad or illegal: · The two men had been seen loitering in the area on the day that the car was stolen.

► hang around

informal to stay somewhere not doing anything: · There are gangs of boys hanging around on street corners.· I don’t mind hanging around for a few minutes.· The boss doesn’t like being kept hanging around.

► stick around

informal to stay in the same place or situation for a period of time, especially while you are waiting for something to happen or someone to arrive: · I decided to stick around and see how it all turned out.· Make up your mind. I’m not going to stick around forever.

Longman Language Activatorto continue to be in the same place or situation► stay

to continue to exist or still be in the same place: · The car was abandoned in a field, and there it stayed until police towed it back.stay with: · He stayed with the company for over thirty years.· The memory of his father's death stayed with him all his life.

► remain

written to continue to exist or still be in the same place: · The computers remained in their boxes until enough money was found to buy the software needed to operate them.remain with: · Her unhappy face remained with me throughout the rest of my journey.· The picture remained with the artist's family for a number of years.

► linger

if a sight, smell, or taste lingers you can still see it, smell it, or taste it even after a long time: · Garlic has a taste which tends to linger in your mouth.· The faint smell of cigar smoke lingered on in the room.

► still

use this to emphasize that someone or something still exists or is still in the same place, especially when this is unusual or surprising: · After two hours the dog was still there, just sitting and staring at our door.· Soloviov returned to the town where he was born after more than forty years and found his old house still standing.

to stay somewhere a little longer► stay on

to stay somewhere after other people have gone, or after you expected to leave: · The others went back to the hotel, but I stayed on in the bar, chatting to Alan.· It's okay, I'll stay on until you're ready to leave.· About 40 members of the audience stayed on after the performance for a glass of wine. stay on to do something: · I'll be late home -- I'm staying on to help organize the exhibition.

► stay late

to stay somewhere after other people have gone, often because you have work to do: · Employees regularly stay late to complete tasks, but they are not paid overtime.· In those days, teachers enjoyed running reading clubs, and stayed late after the bell to do so.

► stay (in) after school

if a student has to stay after school , they have to stay at the school for a short period of time after the other students have left, usually as a punishment: · If Sean failed to complete any of his classwork assignments, he had to stay after school until they were finished.

► linger

to stay in a place a little longer, either because you are hoping to see someone, or because you are enjoying yourself: · Jack lingered for a while in the hall, hoping to get the chance to talk with her.· She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.linger over: · As she lingered over her coffee, the sky began to darken and heavy rain clouds swept in.linger on: · A few fans lingered on after the concert was over.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a lingering/nagging doubt

(=one that does not go away)· I still had a nagging doubt that there might be something seriously wrong.

► a long/lingering kiss

· He gave her a a long, slow, lingering kiss.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► here

· No, he was not going to linger here.· Why linger here in the sordid dark for nothing?

► long

· But the aroma of the food lingered long after all the sounds of movement had ceased.· Even after swallowing it, its bitter taste lingered long in my mouth.· Blanche did not linger long over the local news reports.· He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while, but it was too cold to linger long.

► on

· Alas, the poll tax will linger on, in less expensive form, until April 1993.· Director Mike Figgis' powerfully bleak film lingers on like a hangover.· It lingered on well into the 1930s.· The whooping cough passed, but humiliation lingered on.· Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways.· The assumptions underlying the deconstructionist view of reality linger on in surprisingly wide circles of influence in the 1990s.· But the issue will linger on until both governments agree to resume the repatriation programme.· While his wife lingered on, in agony, he had no coverage at all.

► over

· She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup.· You can see at a glance the few places other readers lingered Over.· Jacqui noticed that she spent ninety percent of her time lingering over the two dozen Allied officers left in the audience.· There is no need to linger over this stage.· Muriel said nothing while Lily lingered over breakfast and then disappeared upstairs.· He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state.· There was only one couple lingering over coffee and cigarettes.· Unlike other tourists, we must not linger over these delights.

► still

· Most still linger in county jails, awaiting the outcome of appeals or seeking jury trials.· The air of empty spaces still lingered around her.· But, his hand still lingering, he was straightening up.· The onion smell still lingered, sharp and pungent.· Here and there a few flakes of skin still lingered like the scurf of stars.· Reverberations from that situation still linger.· This had provoked hostility in some quarters towards him - a hostility that lingered still in the family-orientated Marsh End.· If you sit down with somebody who has been on a series for four years, that feeling still lingers.

► there

· Several men in the after shell-room lingered there too long... and were drowned.· Warm fingers touch my shoulder; they linger there.· Half a dozen girls, most of them hatted and ready for the street, lingered there.

► too

· Don't linger too long, though.· Other kids complained it tasted great at first, but the aftertaste lingered too long.· She doesn't linger too long, for there are preparations to be made at home.· Many lingered too long with their breakfast dishes.· He had learned his craft and had lingered too long.

NOUN► coffee

· There was only one couple lingering over coffee and cigarettes.

► death

· I dread a painful, lingering death.· History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.

► doubt

· But doubts are bound to linger and further clarifications are required to dispel them.

► hand

· But, his hand still lingering, he was straightening up.· His hand, lingering behind a moment, made a hook for her to follow.· Stephen felt the softness of the chair beneath him and allowed his hand to linger on the brocade.

► memory

· For those at Little Rock's night of celebration, the memory will linger for ever.· Her memory must be lingering in every lonely room and courtyard - hence his hardness now.· The benefits of the scheme, like the memories, will linger on.· The memory lingered on, though, in the minds of many Stamford people.

► mind

· None the less, a few crimes linger in the public mind.· This notion of how the geodynamo might work has lingered in the minds of geomagnetists.· In some ways it is an unfinished, unrealised film, yet it lingers potently in the mind.· Looking back on college, academic involvements, including debating, linger most in my mind.

► moment

· His hand, lingering behind a moment, made a hook for her to follow.

► question

· But the question lingers: Just what visions do our current and former elected officials hold for this state and its people?· A key question lingering is where the investors' money went.· But a question lingers none the less: When we photograph our children naked, are we crossing a line without realizing it?· This question continued to linger in our midst and shroud our lives in a ravenous expanse with no discernible seams or edges.

► smell

· The smells lingered faintly to enchant the air even at this time of year, but the mystery of childhood had vanished.· The onion smell still lingered, sharp and pungent.· The smell of Warsaw lingers as that of coal.· A musk smell lingered on Groves' sleeve, from where the female snake had curled around his arm.· He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow, the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live.

VERB► let

· I am inclined to doubt it, but let us not linger, and consider instead the second premiss of the argument.· You already blew it by letting it linger this long.· Each of these station types had its own distinctive character and ambience. Let us linger a while at some of them.· Violetta is hardly the type to let lingering illness disrupt her lusty courtesan life.· I should not let them linger, wasting time, wasting money, until the spring brings them fresh hope.· He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds, during which his bulk seems to swell in the room.· It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years, when it should have been released long before.

► seem

· These smells all seem to linger, unfolding page by page, Memories of years gone by, until the present age.· Lilithian traditions seem to have lingered on in the Pyrenees until the twentieth century.· The scent still seems to linger.

► want

· Large lounge for those who want to linger.· These are high-spending areas, and the management wants you to linger.· I don't want to linger on in hospital with tubes and drugs and all that messy business.