lithe
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词源 1[编辑]
源自中古英语 lithen,源自古英语 līþan (“走,旅行,航行,失去”),源自原始日耳曼语 *līþaną (“走,离开,遭受”),源自原始印欧语 *leyt- (“走,启程,死”)。与北弗里斯兰语 lyen、lije (“遭受”)、荷兰语 lijden (“遭受,忍耐,停留”)、德语 leiden (“遭受,忍受,允许”)同源。参见lode、lead。
动词[编辑]
lithe (第三人称单数简单现在时 lithes,现在分词 lithing,过去式 lithed 或 lode,过去分词 lithed 或 lidden)
词源 2[编辑]
源自中古英语 lithe,源自古英语 līþe (“轻柔的”),源自原始西日耳曼语 *linþ(ī),源自原始日耳曼语 *linþaz,源自原始印欧语 *lentos。与萨特弗里斯兰语 lied (“瘦的,憔悴的”),丹麦语和古德语lind (“温和的”)有关。在哥特语中不可考。一些文献指出拉丁语 lenis (“软的”)和/或拉丁语 lentus (“柔软灵活的”)亦为其同源词。
形容词[编辑]
lithe (比较级 lither,最高级 lithest)
- (弃用) 轻柔的,宁静的
- 苗条的
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章号 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版于 1915, →OCLC:
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All”, 出自 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle版, Little, Brown Book Group:
- The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.
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- 灵活的,柔韧的
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- 灵活的,适应性强的
- 2018 3月 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, 出自 The New York Times[1]:
- Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
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词源 3[编辑]
源自中古英语 lithen,源自古英语 līþian、līþiġian (“使...软,使...宁静,使...缓和,安抚”),源自原始日耳曼语 *linþijaną (“使...软”),源自原始印欧语 *lento- (“有弹性的”)。与德语 lindern (“减轻,缓和”)同源。
动词[编辑]
lithe
- (不及物,弃用) 平静下来
- (及物,弃用) 使...软,使...平静,缓和,减轻
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
- England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
- 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure
- Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
词源 4[编辑]
源自中古英语 lithen,源自古诺尔斯语 hlýða (“听”),源自原始日耳曼语 *hliuþijaną (“听”),源自原始印欧语 *ḱlewe- (“听见”)。与丹麦语 lytte (“听”)同源。与古英语 hlēoþor (“声音,声响,嗓音,歌声”)、古英语 hlūd (“吵闹的,洪亮的”)有关。其他见loud。
其他形式[编辑]
动词[编辑]
lithe (第三人称单数简单现在时 lithes,现在分词 lithing,一般过去时及过去分词 lithed)
词源 5[编辑]
不详,可能变换自lewth。
名词[编辑]
lithe (复数 lithes)
- (苏格兰) 避难所
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
异序词[编辑]
中古英语[编辑]
词源 1[编辑]
名词[编辑]
lithe (复数 lithes)
- light的另一种写法
词源 2[编辑]
名词[编辑]
lithe
- lyth的另一种写法