中文词源
torpid 懒散的，无力的
来自 torpor,懒散，无力。
英语词源
- torpid
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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.
权威例句
- 1. After a long sleep,he still felt torpid.
- 长睡一觉后他仍然觉得有气无力。
- 2. He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.
- 他只是埋头走,脑袋里思想都凝滞了,有如一汪流不动的溪水.
- 3. Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull.
- 她们完全没有受过教育, 官能十分迟钝, 在我看来笨得毫无希望.
- 4. Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
- 他醒着的时候也完全麻木不动.
- 5. Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May.
- 但是无论哪里都躲不过那欲吹无力的五月的风.
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