- 1大步慢跑；邁著大步輕快地跑
To lope is to run in an easy way, with long, relaxed steps — not a sprint, not a tired little . You often hear it of a horse, a dog, or a tall person covering ground without looking in a hurry. There is a noun too: a lope is that kind of run (a steady lope across the field). It is not a kitchen-table word; stories and sports writing use it more than chat. It is a cousin of leap: they are , two English words that grew from the same older word, Old Norse hlaupa, "to leap or jump." German laufen and Dutch lopen (walk/run) are family on the other side of the North Sea. The feeling of lope is long and easy, not a sudden jump.
組成從中古英語 lopen 來，再往上是古諾斯語 hlaupa（跳、躍）。和 leap 是一對雙生子：同一個老詞，兩條路走進英語。
同家族的字
- leapdoublet — both come from Old Norse hlaupa, to leap or jump
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
lopeverb/ləʊp/
- 1
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
- Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.
- 2
obsoleteTo jump, leap.
- And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
- 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy he that lopes on the ropes
lopenoun/ləʊp/
- 1
An easy pace with long strides.
- Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]
- Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。