| 单词 | prolonged |
| 释义 | prolonged (once / 467 pages) adj Something prolonged is long and drawn-out — it's taking longer than it should. A prolonged wait is usually annoying. If a fan throws a drink on the court during a basketball game and it takes an hour to clean it up, and then another hour to re-wax the floor, and then another hour for the players to warm up again...that's a prolonged delay. Anything prolonged has been stretched out further than it should be. America's war with Vietnam was prolonged much longer than anyone expected. If something is tedious, time-consuming, and feels like it's taking forever, it's prolonged. WORD FAMILYprolonged: prolongedly+/prolong: prolongation, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs/prolongation: prolongations USAGE EXAMPLESPASADENA, Calif. — In mid-August, after prolonged vacillation, Southern California Coach Clay Helton declared the junior Max Browne his starting quarterback. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Moments after contact, he turned and sprinted to midfield near the Seahawks’ logo, delivering a prolonged stare at the stunned Seattle sideline. Seattle Times(Dec 24, 2016) As documented by the Center for American Progress, a prolonged foreclosure crisis was still depressing home values in those places. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj relatively long in duration; tediously protracted a prolonged and bitter struggle Syn drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified 2adj drawn out or made longer spatially a prolonged black line across the page Syn elongated, extended, lengthened long primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified |
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