指植物或生物:逐渐干枯、萎缩并死去。
"Without any rain for weeks, the flowers in the garden began to wither away."
逐渐变得更弱、更小或更不重要,直到几乎什么都不剩。
慢慢枯干、死去,或越来越虚弱,就像缺水的植物一样。
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指植物或生物:逐渐干枯、萎缩并死去。
"Without any rain for weeks, the flowers in the garden began to wither away."
指人:身体逐渐变得虚弱、消瘦,尤其因为疾病或年老。
"He watched his grandfather wither away in the hospital over the course of the winter."
指机构、思想或感情:逐渐失去力量和重要性,直到消失。
"Their friendship withered away after they moved to different cities and stopped keeping in touch."
"The state will wither away."
— Friedrich Engels, summarising Marx's theory of the state in 'Anti-Dühring', 1878.
wither 表示像快死的植物那样枯干、萎缩,away 表示脱离原来的状态——字面意思很明显。
慢慢枯干、死去,或越来越虚弱,就像缺水的植物一样。
既可用于本义(植物、身体),也可用于比喻义(机构、希望、关系)。比喻用法在政治和哲学写作中很常见。常带有伤感、惋惜的语气。也常见于马克思主义理论中(如“the state will wither away”)。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "wither away" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
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