| 单词 | lethargic |
| 释义 | le·thar·gic 1. a. < bullfrogs … were quite lethargic after storage — A.C.Giese > < the market … was even more lethargic than they indicated — Fortune > < the lethargic sullen power of the ocean — Norman Mailer > b. < the weak and lethargic government of Spain — Bernard DeVoto > < a lethargic entrepreneur in the egg business — Roger Eddy > 2. < yielded to the lethargic music and fell asleep > Synonyms: < a lethargic effect to compare somewhat with the effect of insulin — Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases > < she did look — not exactly sleepy, but lethargic, relaxed. All her movements were peculiarly slow — Margery Sharp > < a people grown lethargic from economic abundance — V.L.Parrington > sluggish describes a similar state but often implies criticism < sluggish transportation > < sluggish pond > < sluggish digestion > < England has become unenterprising and sluggish because England has been so prosperous and comfortable — H.G.Wells > < we are apt to scorn your neighbor because his rate of motion is faster or more sluggish than our own — A.L.Guérard > torpid and comatose both imply an aberration, more or less lasting, from the normal; torpid literally implies the numb or benumbed state of a hibernating animal, but in its more common extended sense it implies a lack of energy, responsiveness, or vigor commonly associated with healthy, active individuals < Oxford was torpid also, droning along in its eighteenth-century grooves — Van Wyck Brooks > < it would be a torpid and spiritless reader … who would pass by everything sensational — F.L.Mott > < as a reviver of the half-dead, or the merely torpid, Mencken's only rival … was Bernard Shaw — DeLancey Ferguson > comatose literally suggests the state of profound insensibility of a coma < the almost comatose condition which had first intervened never developed into a fatal diabetic coma — Havelock Ellis > in extended use comatose implies immobility, stagnation, extreme lethargy, often due to a paralyzing external force < the tradition of art remained comatose. Here and there a genius appeared and wrestled with the coils of convention — Clive Bell > |
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