| 正面 | 12449.limp 英 [lɪmp]美 [lɪmp]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 该词是 ante- "before" + ocular "of the eyes" 复合缩略词(*antlar => antler)，表示：before the eyes.2. 最初应该是短语：antler horn, 即：horn in front of the eyes. 也就是长在眼睛前面的角，后来简略成 antler.adj. 柔软的，无力的；软弱的vi. 跛行，一拐一拐地走；缓慢费力地前进n. 跛行n. (Limp)人名；(英)林普 例句： 1. A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.手术后她的膝盖活动不便，走路时被迫跛行。 limp 跛的，无生气的来自*limp,跛的，来自Proto-Germanic*limpana,悬垂，垂下，引申词义一脚长，一脚短，跛脚的，无生气的。 limplimp: English has two words limp, which perhaps share a common ancestry. Neither is particularly old. The verb first crops up in the 16th century (until then the word for ‘walk lamely’ had been halt, which now survives, barely, as an adjective). It was probably adapted from the now obsolete adjective limphalt ‘lame’, a descendant of Old English lemphealt (which goes back ultimately to Indo-European *lomb-). The adjective limp is first recorded in the 18th century, and in view of the common meaning element ‘lack of firmness, infirmity’ it seems likely that it is related to the verb.limp (v.)1560s, of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle English lympen "to fall short" (c. 1400), which is probably from Old English lemphealt "halting, lame, limping," which has a lone cognate in the rare Middle High German limphin, and perhaps is from a PIE root meaning "slack, loose, to hang down" (cognates: Sanskrit lambate "hangs down," Middle High German lampen "to hang down"). Related: Limped; limping. As a noun, 1818, from the verb.limp (adj.)1706, "flaccid, drooping," of obscure origin, perhaps related to limp (v.)." |