Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2024年4月14日 星期日
procrastinate, defriend, befriend, aftertaste lingers. fondly. Cadolle has been making lingerie for more than a century in Paris and considers its custom items a form of couture.Credit...
Cadolle has been making lingerie for more than a century in Paris and considers its custom items a form of couture.Credit...Lucie Cipolla for The New York Times
Cadolle, a maker of corsets favored by designers like John Galliano and labels like Dior, is known for custom underpinnings that can cost thousands of dollars.
Snowden Case Has Cold War Aftertaste By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN Russia ignored demands by the White House to intercept the N.S.A. leaker and return him to the United States, showing the two countries still have a penchant for that old rivalry from the Soviet era.
Ethnic Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo are facing changes to law
enforcement, schools and courts that take effect on Saturday as part of a
landmark power-sharing accord.
After his retirement in 1974, Professor Tucker tried to recapture some
of the magic of Princeton's mathematics department in the 1940's. He
organized a novel oral history project involving hundreds of taped
interviews with former faculty members and students. He also
procrastinated, his former colleagues recall fondly. His last book,
published recently, was in the works for 18 years.
Debora Spencer at first could not bring herself to defriend her ex-boyfriend, but finally did. After a rejection, the hurt can linger online, witnessed by everyone.
The memories that linger, ten years onEvents to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks are to take place as planned, despite an escalation of the perceived terror threat. Visitors to ground zero are not allowing themselves to be intimidated.
Bush and Obama, Shoulder to Shoulder
By MARK LANDLER and ERIC SCHMITT
The president defined by his response to Sept. 11 stood alongside the one who has tried to take America beyond the lingering, complicated legacy of that day.
Best not to linger until the last elf was out of sight.
linger
(lĭng'gər)
v., -gered, -ger·ing, -gers.
v.intr.
To be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance; tarry. See synonyms at stay1.
To remain feebly alive for some time before dying.
To persist: an aftertaste that lingers.
To proceed slowly; saunter.
To be tardy in acting; procrastinate.
v.tr.
To pass (a period of time) in a leisurely or aimless manner.
[Middle English lengeren, frequentative of lengen, to prolong, from Old English lengan.]
a taste remaining in the mouth after eating or drinking something:the wine had a bitter aftertaste figurativewe concluded many exchanges in uneasy fashion, leaving behind a sour aftertaste
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