| 单词 | long |
| 释义 | long I. 1. a. < oaks in long and imposing avenues — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < a long coastline > < the long trip from New York to London was made in remarkably short time > b. < a large oval man, with a long oiled mustache — Lawrence Durrell > < a long car > < long fingers > c. < walked over to the long French windows and looked out — May Sarton > < a long, lean individual — F.V.W.Mason > < a race of long gaunt men — Sherwood Anderson > d. < a long skull > < a long face > e. < the dress is long on her > < the column is two lines long > < his first serve was long > 2. a. < the table was six feet long > b. < the long side of the building > < placed the sofa the long way of the room > 3. a. < even after long experience editing has never become easy — E.S.McCartney > < a long tradition of national consciousness — Vera M. Dean > < a long friendship > b. < the play was two hours long > c. < drank in long, greedy swallows — Scott Fitzgerald > < the occasional shutting of a door would peal in long reverberations — T.L.Peacock > < a long look > < a long breath > < the four enemies who were lifting the long yell as they came racing for him — W.N.Burns > 4. a. < a long and strong list of candidates was put forward — S.H.Adams > < the long series of combat operations — Mack Morriss > < played a long list of comedy and farcical roles — W.P.Eaton > b. < a book 300 pages long > c. < this son was a man of 40 or thereabouts, was married, and had a long family — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < now reverenced as a master … because his pictures fetch long prices — Clive Bell > 5. a. of a speech sound < the vowel of dark is longer than the vowel of dock when the r is not pronounced > b. < long a in fate > < long e in equal > < long i in sign > < long o in ode > < long u in fuse > c. (1) of a syllable in Greek or Latin verse (2) of a syllable in English verse 6. a. < a long lecture > < a long explanation > b. < those long grim years between the fall of France and the battle of El Alamein — R.K.Dickson > < hung parasitically round the court in the long days of its poverty — A.M.Young > 7. < the long voice of the hounds — Thomas Wolfe > < a long northeast wind — Marjory S. Douglas > < a fighter with a long left jab > < hits a long ball > < long sight > 8. of a number or unit of measure < long mile > 9. a. < a long view of the problem > < the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts — H.W.Longfellow > b. < a long guess > c. < a long date > d. < a long note > 10. < long fodder > 11. < deficient in logic but long on human understanding — Stuart Chase > < long on ancestry and short on cash — Clement Eaton > 12. of betting odds a. < odds of 30 to 1 or even longer > b. < take the long end of the bet > 13. < strike out for himself, be independent, take a long chance for a large reward — W.P.Webb > 14. < long of cotton > < be on the long side of the market > 15. of a beverage < a long drink > 16. < corn is in long supply > 17. of fractional paper sizes < long quarto > 18. a. < a long printing ink > b. < a long carbon black > 19. • - at long last - at the longest - long in the tooth II. 1. < children know what a story or play is long before they know what an essay is — George Sampson > < a quiet picturesque resort, long the gathering place of artists — American Guide Series: Michigan > 2. < long-removed > < long-traveled > 3. < all summer long > < all his life long > < all day long > 4. < long before the discovery of America > < his diary was deciphered long after his death > 5. < didn't stay longer than five o'clock > < the city held out longer than a year under siege > III. 1. < expected the train before long > 2. 3. 4. 5. < tapped out a long and a short > < blew two longs on his whistle > 6. a. longs plural < was proudly wearing his first pair of longs > b. 7. longs plural • - the long and short IV. < long for summer to come > < when I look at her dancing, I long to dance with her — Anne D. Sedgwick > < longs for the big sales that a sensational book or a novelty may seem to promise — August Frugé > Synonyms: < however much you may long for a cigarette — Agnes M. Miall > < long for peace and security after war and disorder > < for the first time in her life she had ceased longing, ceased striving — Ellen Glasgow > yearn adds to long the idea of eagerness, tenderness, or passionateness < yearn for something to believe in > < they often became homesick and yearned for their old associations — V.G.Heiser > < gazed into his faded blue eyes as if yearning to be understood — Joseph Conrad > < yearned for the return of a lover > hanker suggests somewhat disparagingly that one is made uneasy or restless by a desire < he hankered after other, strange delights — Robertson Davies > < no hankering to be the founder of a new system of philosophy — M.R.Cohen > < all who enjoy or hanker after a life in the open air — British Book News > < hanker after illicit pleasures > pine suggests a languishing or other more or less adverse physical effect from usually fruitless longing < one realizes all the pleasure of the present good; the other converts it into pain by pining after something better — T.L.Peacock > < some people pine for adventure, stalk it, woo it with lures — Sylvia Berkman > < the job he had always pined for — Time > hunger and thirst suggest a compelling craving < could even a mother have hungered more acutely for the sight of a daughter? — Ellen Glasgow > < people thirsting for conquest — Julien Benda > < she was thirsting to hear the whole of the story — Winston Churchill > V. archaic < give thee everything that longs unto the daughter of a king — William Morris > VI. 1. 2. |
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