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    Pendulous means hanging down loosely and free to swing — a heavy branch, a long , a pouch that droops. It comes from Latin pendulus, from a verb 'to hang'. It is a , slightly scientific adjective: like it for leaves, flowers, and animal parts; everyday people usually say hanging or droopy. It does not mean thoughtful (that is pensive), and it is not the clock's pendulum, though they are cousins: a pendulum is the hanging weight that swings. Use pendulous when the hanging thing is slack and can move, not when it is fixed tight.

    下垂而晃動的；懸垂的

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組成From Latin pendulus 'hanging', from pendeō 'to hang'

同家族的字

  • pendantsame hang-root; a pendant is a thing that hangs
  • pendulumthe hanging weight that swings; same Latin hang-family

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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pendulousadj/ˈpɛndjʊləs/

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    Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

    • The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union.
  • 2

    Indecisive or hesitant

  • 3

    biologynatural-sciencesHaving branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

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。