| 单词 |
sluggishness |
| 释义 |
sluggishness|ˈslʌgɪʃnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The character or quality of being sluggish, torpid, or slow: a. Of persons (or animals).
c1440Alph. Tales 20 A monk..tempyd with sleuthe & slugisnes. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xviii, O þe sluggussnes & þe negligence of oure tyme, þat we..are wery to lyue for sluggussnes and werynes! 1539Elyot Cast. Helthe 48 b, Sluggyshenes dulleth the body. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 2 b, We loose the healthfullest and sweetest time with sluggishnesse. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 160 Hay, whereof they make little for sluggishnesse. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 41 Nor can this be called slothfulness or sluggishness in them,..but a decay of their spirits. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 127 Thanks to the cold sluggishness of our national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 187 The time was one neither of sluggishness nor of performance, but of active and earnest preparation. 1875H. G. Wood Therap. (1879) 156 The first symptom manifested is sluggishness, as shown by a disposition to be quiet.
personif.a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 129 To defie desperation the daughter of sluggishnesse.
b. Of things, their motion, etc.
1715tr. Gregory's Astron. (1726) I. 135 Lest this Motion should languish by degrees on account of the sluggishness of Matter. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 525 The part [has] put on that degree of sluggishness and livid hue, as to require a very different mode of treatment. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 322 The sluggishness of the compass..in the Arctic seas. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 24 A sluggishness in the flow of the blood. |
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