lengthy

英 ['le?θ?; 'le?kθ?] 美['l??θi]

TOEFL擴(kuò)展詞匯CET4中低頻詞

比較級:?lengthier;最高級:?lengthiest;

lengthy 冗長的

來自length,長度，引申詞義冗長的。

lengthy (adj.): 1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c. 1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism.
This word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]
Related: Lengthily; lengthiness.

1. No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.: 除人之外，所有的哺乳動物進(jìn)入這個(gè)國家都必須經(jīng)過長期隔離。

2. There is a lengthy article on Spike Milligan in the Observer newspaper.: 《觀察家報(bào)》上有一篇關(guān)于斯派克·米利根的長篇文章。

3. Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.: 蓋茨以一篇有關(guān)部署策略的鴻篇大論予以回應(yīng)。