torpid: [17] Torpid was acquired from Latin torpidus, a derivative of torpēre ‘be stiff, numb, inactive, etc’. Also from torpēre came torpēdō, which was applied to a type of fish capable of producing an electric shock with which it numbs its prey. English adopted the term as torpedo [16]. The fish is long and thin, and in the 1860s its name was applied to an underwater selfpropelled missile which shares its shape, and its disconcerting effect on enemies (it had earlier, from the late 18th century, been used for a sort of underwater mine). => torpedo
torpid (adj.)
1610s, "benumbed, without feeling or power," from Latin torpidus "benumbed, stupefied," from torpere "be numb or stiff" (see torpor). Figurative sense of "sluggish, dull, apathetic" is from 1650s. Related: Torpidly; torpidness.
雙語例句
1. After a long sleep,he still felt torpid.
長睡一覺后他仍然覺得有氣無力。
來自辭典例句
2. He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.
他只是埋頭走,腦袋里思想都凝滯了,有如一汪流不動的溪水.
來自辭典例句
3. Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull.
她們完全沒有受過教育, 官能十分遲鈍, 在我看來笨得毫無希望.
來自辭典例句
4. Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
他醒著的時候也完全麻木不動.
來自辭典例句
5. Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May.