| 词汇 | limping |
| 释义 | limping present participle oflimp limp verb uk /lɪmp/ us /lɪmp/ limpverb (PERSON/ANIMAL)[ I ] to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot: 瘸着脚走，跛行 Three minutes into the game, Jackson limped off the pitch with a serious ankle injury.比赛刚刚开始3分钟，杰克逊就因脚踝严重受伤而下场。 to walk in a way that is not controlled or even stumbleHe was stumbling around the house like he was drunk. lumberWe held our breath as a black bear lumbered across the hiking trail ahead of us. galumphThe children galumphed down the steps and raced outside to play. bumbleHe bumbled into her and spilled her drink down her gown. falterThe dancer faltered right before the jump and landed awkwardly. totterHe tottered carefully down the gangplank, clutching at the railing. Moving unsteadily or with difficulty blunder bumble dodder dodderer doddery favour inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily lurch reel squeeze toddle toil totter tottering totteringly tumble limpverb (PROCESS/THING)[ I+ adv/prep ]informal to move or develop slowly and with difficulty: 缓慢行进；艰难移动 The little boat limped slowly towards the shore.那条小船缓慢地向岸边靠近。 After limping along for almost two years, the economy is starting to show signs of recovery.经过差不多两年的徘徊，经济开始出现了复苏的迹象。 Making progress and advancing adaptive evolution advance the cause advanced advancement age boom evolve evolved flourish flower formatively from A to Bidiom mature punctuated equilibrium rebuild regenerate ripen ripeness spread wing Examples of limpinglimping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. And as scientific advances rocket far ahead of both our bemused journalistic establishment and our limping regulatory apparatus, the reality becomes ever more pernicious. Although we hear the song 'in four', it is a 'limping' four - definitely not a 'funky' four. To take one final pain example - consider the phenomenon of limping. When, in the second act of the play, she emerges into the public discourse surrounding the 1890s anti-nautch movement, it is as a limping grotesque. The killdeer's mimicry has presumably evolved; but is it wise to conclude that the human limping response has, as well? It felt post-coital in the way it evaded cultural work, limping pusillanimously from one note to the next. All vertebrates, when they have an injured leg, exhibit a limping gait that presumably has little, if any, intrinsic social communicative value. Either the limping reflects the effects of internally experienced pain on the central motor apparatus, or simply damaged peripheral structural supports. This strategy realized limping gait, and despite the back-and-forth hopping, there was a net forward motion. Panksepp's example of the limping child could, of course, concern a child with or without pain who seeks to gain attention and sympathy. His preliminary assessment is that this has produced a 'limping' rule of law, since it was imposed from above, unaccompanied by any changes in social values especially of the elites. Young children can surely increase their limping to obtain sympathy after an injury, or decrease it when faced with an unsympathetic audience. Liberals, not alone, bitterly regret that this absurd, one-legged monster is limping into another financial year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now we are limping up the fire escape, trying to get in through the seventh storey window. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This results in a so-called "limping marriage", where the parties are free to remarry civilly, but not religiously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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