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Going on for too long — longer than it should be, so that people get tired or bored. It works as an adjective (an overlong speech, an overlong film, an overlong meeting) and, less often, as an adverb (we waited overlong). This is a reviewer's word. It lives in book reviews, film reviews, and polite complaints about meetings and ceremonies. It is almost always about TIME rather than physical length; you would not call a river or a piece of rope overlong, you would say too long. And it carries a judgement, gently but clearly: "a long film" is neutral, "an overlong film" says the writer was bored and thinks the director should have cut it. In speech most people just say "too long" — "overlong" sounds like something written down, a little formal, a little literary. Note it needs no "too" of its own: the "over-" is already doing that job.
冗長的、太長的(多指時間上拖太久)
組成over- + long. The prefix "over-" here means "too much, more than is right" — the same over- as in overcook, overpay, overeat.
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。
overlongadj
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Too long; overly long.
- O, hold me not with silence over-long!
- As the Island Mindanao lies very convenient for Trade, so considering its distance, the way thither may not be over long and tiresome.
overlongadv
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Too long, for an excessively long time.
- […] she casteth the rest into the fire, and there withall sodainely flings herselfe into it: Which is no sooner done, but the people cast great store of Faggots and Billets vpon hir, lest she should languish over-long […]
- […] his wandering restless glance lingered over-long even on his girl cousin, so that his pretty sharp-voiced wife recalled him with a little sneer she slipped sidewise into something else she said.
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。