lengthy 的意思
冗长的; 长的; 过长的
lengthy 的词源
lengthy(adj.)
“having length”(尤其是指“过长”),1759年出现于美式英语,源自 length + -y (2)。直到大约1840年,这个词在英式英语中一直被视为美式用法。
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]
这个词在我们这里非常常见,无论是书面语还是口语中都有人使用。但由于美英两国的人们都对它进行了很多嘲笑,因此在书面表达中现在一般都避免使用。韦伯斯特先生已经将其收入词典,但显然在任何一本英式词典中都找不到。正如韦伯斯特先生所正确指出的,我们主要将这个词用于描述文章或演讲。因此我们会说,一本 lengthy 小册子,一场 lengthy 讲道等等。而英国人则会说,一场 long 或(更口语化一些)longish 讲道。[约翰·皮克林,《美国特有词汇表或词语与短语集》,波士顿,1816年]
相关词汇:Lengthily;lengthiness。
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