喜樂美語
  1. 1（頭髮）細軟扁塌、無生氣的（帶貶義，不是單純「直髮」或「瘦」）

    Lank is used most of all about hair. Lank hair hangs straight, looks thin, and has no life in it — as if it were tired or a little dirty, even when it is clean. It is not a kind word.

    Lank is used most of alllank最常用來講 about hair頭髮. Lank hairlank hair垂垂的頭髮 hangs straight直直地垂下來, looks thin看起來很細, and has no life in it沒有生氣 — as if it were tired好像很累 or a little dirty或有點髒, even when it is clean即使其實是乾淨的. It is not a kind word這不是個好聽的詞.

    In older books you also meet lank for a person who is tall and very thin, more bony than . There is an old verb to lank, “to grow thin,” but it has almost gone from the language.

    In older books在比較舊的書裡, you also meet lank for a personlank也會用來形容一個人 who is tall and very thin又高又瘦的, more bony than graceful比起優雅，更像是骨感. There is an old verb還有一個古老的動詞 to lankto lank, "to grow thin,"意思是「變瘦」 but it has almost gone from the language但這個用法幾乎已經從語言裡消失了.

    Younger speakers often reach for flatter, limp, or greasy instead; lank still lives in writing and in careful speech.

    Younger speakers often reach for年輕人常常改用 flatter, limp, or greasy insteadflatter扁塌、limp軟趴趴、或greasy油膩來代替; lank still lives inlank這個字則還活在 writing and in careful speech寫作和正式一點的說話裡.

    Students sometimes hear it and think “long,” because long hair can hang — but long hair can be thick and lovely, and short hair can be lank. Slim and thin can be neutral or even kind; lank is the one.

    Students sometimes hear it and think學生有時候聽到這個詞會以為是 "long,"「long長」 because long hair can hang因為長頭髮也會垂下來 — but long hair can be thick and lovely但長頭髮可以又濃密又漂亮, and short hair can be lank短頭髮也可能是lank. Slim and thin can be neutral or even kindslim苗條和thin瘦可以是中性、甚至是稱讚的詞; lank is the unkind onelank才是不客氣的那個.

core核心畫面

組成From Old English hlanc, meaning thin. It does not split into pieces you can still see in English today.

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Lankname

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    A surname.

lankadj/ˈlæŋk/

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    Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

    • Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o’erteemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;
    • 1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume III, p. 226, […] who would not chuse […] to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain […] ?
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    obsoleteMeagre, paltry, scant in quantity.

    • 1659, Samuel Cradock, Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation, London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495, We should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver.
    • The Captain was inclined to be bald, but he brought a quantity of lank iron-grey hair over his pate, and had a couple of whisps of the same falling down on each side of his face.
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    Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)

    • 1695, John Stevens (translator), The Portugues Asia; or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues, by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, London: C. Brome, Chapter 10, p. 291, The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]
    • Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore-parts of their legs and feet […]
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    obsoleteLanguid; drooping, slack.

    • The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight to aged Nereus’ hall; Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head, And gave her to his daughters to imbathe […]
    • Let us weigh the promises of the one and of the other in the balance of truth, and we shall finde that the promises of God are gold, and the promises of the devil are Alchimy, such which though they glitter much, have no worth or excellency in them. […] God’s, are substantial realities, and his, vanishing and fleeting shadows windy and swollen bladders, which but a little prickt, do quickly fall and grow lank.

lankverb/ˈlæŋk/

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    rareTo become lank.

    • […] on the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on: and all this— It wounds thine honour that I speak it now— Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek So much as lank’d not.

lanknoun/ˈlæŋk/

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    A clump of lank hair.

    • Then he sat down on the edge of the bed and, his auburn hair coming down in glossy lanks over his right temple, his striped tie dangling out of the front of his gray jacket, his bulky gray-flanneled knees parted, zestfully opened the book.

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