lengthy

英 ['leŋθɪ; 'leŋkθɪ] 美['lɛŋθi]

TOEFL扩展词汇CET4中低频词

比较级: lengthier;最高级: lengthiest;

lengthy 冗长的

来自length,长度，引申词义冗长的。

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，所有的哺乳动物进入这个国家都必须经过长期隔离。

2. There is a lengthy article on Spike Milligan in the Observer newspaper.: 《观察家报》上有一篇关于斯派克·米利根的长篇文章。

3. Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.: 盖茨以一篇有关部署策略的鸿篇大论予以回应。