slouch
英 [slaʊtʃ]
美 [slaʊtʃ]
- n. 下垂;笨拙的人,懒散的人;懒散的样子
- vi. 没精打采地站;耷拉
- vt. 使下垂
1. slack => slouch.
2. relax => lax => slack.
slouch 懒人,懒鬼,没精打采,耷拉来自辅音丛 sl-,邋遢的,懒的,比较 slattern,slut,sloven,slug.
- slouch (v.)
- "walk with a slouch," 1754; "have a downcast or stooped aspect," 1755; from slouch (n.). Related: Slouched; slouching (1610s as a past participle adjective; 1660s of persons, 1690s of hats).
- slouch (n.)
- 1510s, "lazy man," variant of slouk (1560s), probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse slokr "lazy fellow," and related to slack (adj.) on the notion of "sagging, drooping." Meaning "stooping of the head and shoulders" first recorded 1725. Slouch hat, made of soft material, first attested 1764.
- 1. She has recently begun to slouch over her typewriter.
- 最近,她坐在打字机前就开始变得无精打采的。
- 2. Most of the time, they slouch around in the fields.
- 他们绝大多数时间都无精打采地走在田间。
- 3. He straightened himself from a slouch.
- 他一改刚才的无精打采,挺直了腰杆。
- 4. Sit up straight. Don't slouch.
- 挺起胸坐直,别歪歪斜斜的。
- 5. He told the children to sit up and not slouch.
- 他告诉孩子们坐直,别没精打采的.