| 单词 | droop |
| 释义 | droop I. intransitive verb 1. < a tree that droops gracefully as if inviting to its shade — H.A.Overstreet > < his heavy eyelids drooped — Kenneth Roberts > 2. < droops the soaring youth with slackened wing — S.T.Coleridge > < as night drew near the crimson sun drooped slowly in the west > 3. a. < let not your spirits droop too low when the decision is adverse — B.N.Cardozo > b. (1) < who droops far off on a sick bed — S.T.Coleridge > (2) < her thoughts drooped with fatigue — Ellen Glasgow > transitive verb < the bird drooped his wings > Synonyms: < he shrank, drooped, sank heavily into his chair, and once more his face folded into its lines of despair — G.W.Brace > < “He knows it”, the trainer said to himself with a drooping of the heart — Donn Byrne > wilt often applies to the loss of freshness and firmness of flowers and leaf or stalk vegetables deprived of water; it is often used of enervation, discouragement, and loss of spirit, force, and resolution < flowers wilting in the sun > < I fear it's a feeble and sickly patriotism that wilts before such dreadful hardships — Kenneth Roberts > flag indicates a dwindling into forcelessness or vacuity of interest or energy < for a couple of hours he wrote with energy, and then his energy flagged — H.G.Wells > < these devices succeed, every time, in stimulating our interest afresh just at the moment when it was about to flag — T.S.Eliot > < to keep him up to his duties when he showed signs of flagging, he was made much of by his superiors and told what a fine fellow he was — Rudyard Kipling > sag may indicate a sinking out of line at one point; more figuratively it indicates a drooping or decline accompanying loss of strength, determination, spirit, resiliency, or power < the sagging floor of the old house > < in places the rail level may sag out of true — O.S.Nock > < his heart sagged with disappointment — Van Wyck Mason > < stared out of the window, his face sagging once more — Gertrude Atherton > II. 1. < the droop of a gun > : the condition or appearance of drooping < her figure had a listless droop — A.J.Cronin > 2. |
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