• vi. 徘徊；苟延残喘；磨蹭
• vt. 消磨；缓慢度过
• n. (Linger)人名；(德、捷、瑞典)林格；(法)兰热

来自古英语lengan,延长，加长，词源同long.引申词义逗留，流连。

linger

linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German l?ngen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into English in the 10th century as leng. By now, ‘lengthen’ had progressed metaphorically via ‘prolong’ to ‘delay’, which is what it meant when linger was derived from it in the 13th century.
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linger (v.)

c. 1300, lenger "reside, dwell," northern England frequentative of lengen "to tarry," from Old English lengan "prolong, lengthen," from Proto-Germanic *langjan "to make long" (cognates: Old Frisian lendza, Old High German lengan, Dutch lengen "to lengthen"), source of Old English lang (see long (adj.)). Sense of "delay going, depart slowly and unwillingly" is from 1520s. Related: Lingered; lingering.

1. When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.

废除了种族隔离政策后痼疾依然存在。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.

客人尽可以喝着咖啡逗留到午夜左右。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Don't linger away your holidays. Try to find something useful to do.

不要虚度假日, 尽量找些有意义的事做.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. His last words still linger in our ears.

他的临终嘱咐仍萦绕在我们耳际.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Larry didn't linger over his work completely, but he did linger over it to some extent.

劳里虽未完全磨洋工, 但多少有一点.

来自《简明英汉词典》