linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German l?ngen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into English in the 10th century as leng. By now, ‘lengthen’ had progressed metaphorically via ‘prolong’ to ‘delay’, which is what it meant when linger was derived from it in the 13th century. => long
linger (v.)
c. 1300, lenger "reside, dwell," northern England frequentative of lengen "to tarry," from Old English lengan "prolong, lengthen," from Proto-Germanic *langjan "to make long" (cognates: Old Frisian lendza, Old High German lengan, Dutch lengen "to lengthen"), source of Old English lang (see long (adj.)). Sense of "delay going, depart slowly and unwillingly" is from 1520s. Related: Lingered; lingering.
雙語例句
1. When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.
廢除了種族隔離政策后痼疾依然存在。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.
客人盡可以喝著咖啡逗留到午夜左右。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Don't linger away your holidays. Try to find something useful to do.
不要虛度假日, 盡量找些有意義的事做.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. His last words still linger in our ears.
他的臨終囑咐仍縈繞在我們耳際.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. Larry didn't linger over his work completely, but he did linger over it to some extent.