喜樂美語
  1. 1柔軟的；柔韌的（身材、動作靈活優美）

    Lithe describes a body that bends and moves easily and with grace — a dancer, a gymnast, a cat stretching along a wall. The person is often slim, but the point is not weight: nothing looks stiff. It is a compliment, and you will meet it more in stories and careful description than in everyday chat. You would not usually call a lithe over lunch. Older English used a close form to mean “gentle” or “mild”; that softer meaning has mostly gone. What students meet now is the body: flexible, , able to twist without strain. It can describe the figure (“a lithe body”) or, a little less often, the way someone moves.

組成From Old English līþe, “gentle, mild.” That came from older West Germanic and Germanic forms, and further back from an Indo-European root tied to being springy or able to bend. Close old words in Frisian, Danish, Dutch, and German meant “mild” or “thin.” Latin lenis (“soft”) and lentus (“supple”) are sometimes listed as relatives, but that link is not certain.

同家族的字

  • lithelythe adverb: moving in a lithe way
  • lithesomelithe + -some; the same idea, now rather old-fashioned

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

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litheadj詞源 1/laɪð/

  • 1

    obsoleteMild; calm.

    • lithe weather
  • 2

    Slim but not skinny.

    • lithe body
    • The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.
  • 3

    Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

    • the elephant’s lithe trunk.
    • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
  • 4

    Adaptable.

    • Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let^([sic – meaning yet]) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.

litheverb詞源 2/laɪð/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo become calm.

  • 2

    obsoleteTo make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

    • England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
    • Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.

litheverb詞源 3/laɪð/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo attend; listen, hearken.

  • 2

    To listen to, hearken to.

lithenoun詞源 4/laɪð/

  • 1

    Shelter.

    • So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

litheverb詞源 5/laɪð/

  • 1

    archaicdialectalto thicken (gravy, etc.)

    • lithe widely used as a verb in nEng Sc and Ir, as a noun only in Cu
    • to render lithe or thick, to thicken (broth, etc.)

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