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Groggy is how you feel when you are up but not yet yourself: weak, a little unsteady, and thinking in fog. Illness can do it, and so can being very tired, waking too fast, medicine at the dentist, a bump on the head, or drink.
Groggy是 how you feel when you are up but not yet yourself:形容你雖然起來了,但還沒完全恢復精神的那種感覺: weak, a little unsteady, and thinking in fog.虛弱、有點不穩、腦子霧霧的。 Illness can do it,生病會這樣, and so can也可能是因為 being very tired, waking too fast, medicine at the dentist, a bump on the head, or drink.太累、醒太快、看牙醫打的藥、撞到頭,或喝了酒。
You can still walk and talk. You just would not want to sit a test yet.
You can still walk and talk.你還是能走能講話。 You just would not want to sit a test yet.只是你還不會想去考試。
It is informal and kind. You can tell a friend you are groggy, and a doctor may use it because patients already know it. It is weaker than drunk and far from unconscious.
It is informal and kind.這個字是口語,語氣也很親切。 You can tell a friend你可以跟朋友說 you are groggy,你現在groggy, and a doctor may use it因為病人已經懂這個字 because patients already know it.醫生也可能會用。 It is weaker than drunk它比drunk(醉了)程度輕 and far from unconscious.離昏迷還差得遠。
Though actually, the word started with drink. Grog was the rum mixed with water that British sailors were given; groggy first meant shaky from that. Everyday English kept the shaky, feeling and mostly dropped the rum.
Though actually,不過其實, the word started with drink.這個字最早是從喝酒來的。 Grog was the rum mixed with waterGrog指的是英國水手配給的蘭姆酒兌水 that British sailors were given; groggy first meant shaky from that.groggy一開始就是指喝了那個之後搖搖晃晃的樣子。 Everyday English kept the shaky, foggy feeling日常英文留下了那種搖晃、腦霧的感覺, and mostly dropped the rum.但大多丟掉了跟蘭姆酒的關係。
Students often think it only means hungover. People use it just as often for the morning after too little sleep, or the afternoon after a fever.
Students often think it only means hungover.學生常常以為它只是指宿醉。 People use it just as often人們也一樣常用它 for the morning after too little sleep,形容睡不夠的隔天早上, or the afternoon after a fever.或是發燒退了之後的那個下午。
組成From grog + -y. Grog was the old sailors’ rum-and-water drink.
同家族的字
- grogthe old sailors’ rum mixed with water; groggy first meant shaky from that
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
groggyadj/ˈɡɹɒ.ɡi/
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Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.
- The medicine made him groggy and irritable.
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Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。