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slack
英 [slæk]美 [slæk]
adj. 鬆弛的；疏忽的；不流暢的
vi. 鬆懈；減弱
n. 煤末；峽谷
vt. 放鬆；使緩慢
adv. 馬虎地；緩慢地
n. (Slack)人名；(英)斯萊克
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中文詞源
slack 鬆懈的，懈怠的，懶散的
來自古英語 slaec,疲倦的，來自 Proto-Germanic*skakas,疲倦的，來自 PIE*sleg,疲倦的，來自 PIE*sleu,無精打采的，虛弱的，懶散的，詞源同 lax,slake,slow.引申諸相關詞義。
英語詞源
slack
slack: [OE] In common with Dutch and Swedish slak, slack comes from a prehistoric Germanic *slakaz. This was derived from the same ultimate source that produced Latin laxus ‘loose’ (source of English lax, relax, release, and relish) and languēre ‘languish’ (source of English languish). The plural noun slacks was first used for ‘trousers’ in the early 19th century. (The noun slack ‘small pieces of coal’ [15] is a different word, probably borrowed from Middle Dutch slacke ‘waste produced by smelting metal’.)
=> languish, lax, relax, release, relinquish
slack (n.2)
"coal dust," mid-15c., sleck, of uncertain origin, probably related to Middle Dutch slacke, Middle Low German slecke "slag, small pieces left after coal is screened," perhaps related to slagge "splinter flying off metal when it is struck" (see slag (n.)).
slack (adj.)
Old English slæc "remiss, lax, characterized by lack of energy, sluggish, indolent, languid; slow, gentle, easy," from Proto-Germanic *slakas (cognates: Old Saxon slak, Old Norse slakr, Old High German slah "slack," Middle Dutch lac "fault, lack"), from PIE root *(s)leg- "to be slack" (see lax).
Sense of "not tight" (in reference to things) is first recorded c. 1300. As an adverb from late 14c. Slack-key (1975) translates Hawaiian ki ho'alu. Slack water (n.) "time when tide is not flowing" is from 1769. Slack-handed "remiss" is from 1670s. Slack-baked "baked imperfectly, half-baked" is from 1823; figuratively from 1840.
slack (n.1)
early 14c., "cessation" (of pain, grief, etc.), from slack (adj.). Meaning "a cessation of flow in a current or tide" is from 1756; that of "still stretch of a river" is from 1825. Meaning "loose part or end" (of a rope, sail, etc.) is from 1794; hence figurative senses in take up the slack (1930 figuratively) and slang cut (someone) some slack (1968). Meaning "quiet period, lull" is from 1851. Slacks "loose trousers" first recorded 1824, originally military.
slack (v.)
1510s, "to moderate, make slack," back-formed from slack (adj.) after the original verb veered into the specialized sense of slake. Meaning "be remiss, inactive or idle, fail to exert oneself" is attested from 1540s; current use is probably a re-coining from c. 1904 (see slacker, and compare Old English slacful "lazy," sleacmodnes "laziness"). Related: Slacked; slacking.
權威例句
1. He just gazed at me slack-jawed.
他張大了嘴巴，吃驚地盯着我。
2. Many publishers have simply become far too slack.
許多出版商就是變得過於懈怠了。
3. The boy's jaw went slack.
男孩張大了嘴巴。
4. She was staring into space, her mouth slack.
她雙脣微張，失神地望着前方。
5. Slack off those ropes there ; there's a storm coming!
把那裏的繩索放鬆, 暴風雨就要來了!
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