Linger

(verb.) take one's time; proceed slowly.

(verb.) remain present although waning or gradually dying; 'Her perfume lingered on'.

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• This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, It is folly to linger in this manner. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• So long did he linger, that the very urn died; it ceased to hiss. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As they were all going out again, he favoured her with one slight roll of his movable eye, desiring her to linger behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• A man in the full swing of his activities in a gay city could not afford to linger long on Egdon Heath. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They will not linger long. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She watched his eyes linger a moment on Halliday, on Halliday's party. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The footman still lingered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Don't say my John, it isn't proper or true, but Meg's voice lingered over the words as if they sounded pleasant to her. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She did not mind it at the minute, for she lingered to answer Hannah's eager inquiry. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Her voice lingered over it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Whereas in Gerald's soul there still lingered some attachment to the rest, to the whole. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I yet lingered half-an-hour longer, hoping to see some sign of amity: but she gave none. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• If she lingered much later dusk would draw on, and Fanny would be put to the trouble of coming to fetch her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The view lingers with regard to the ?sthetic imagination. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Jo, whispers the law-stationer softly as the boy lingers on the step. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Caroline, it seems, cannot, for she lingers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Where what is left among us of deportment, he added, still lingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I am sorry, because I could have wished to keep up a little lingering fragment of respect for him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He has seen my solitary, lingering death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Glad to see you here again, sir, said Pratt, lingering to adjust a blind. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Old Sedley's lingering illness and death supervened, after which a meeting was for some time impossible. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He watched the lingering way she took her feet from the ground. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This done, I rested, leaning against the tree; lingering, like any other mourner, beside a newly-sodded grave. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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