| 正面 | 6111.lengthy 英 ['leŋθɪ; 'leŋkθɪ]美 ['lɛŋθi]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 美剧: 《危机边缘》：《Fringe》：其它译名：迷离档案，F档案。2. 谐音“辐轮际”----辐轮、轮辐的边际、边缘。3. brink => fringe.4. brim <====> brink, fringe.adj. 漫长的，冗长的；啰唆的 例句： 1. No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.除人之外，所有的哺乳动物进入这个国家都必须经过长期隔离。 lengthy 冗长的来自length,长度，引申词义冗长的。 lengthy (adj.)1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c. 1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism. This word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816] Related: Lengthily; lengthiness." |