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单词 leisurely
释义
leisurely
adjective
uk
/ˈleʒ.ə.li/us
/ˈleʒ.ɚ.li/
used todescribeanactionthat is done in arelaxedway, withouthurrying:
（行动）悠闲的，休闲的
Weenjoyeda leisurelypicniclunchon thelawn.中午我们在草地上悠闲地享用了一顿野餐。
Synonym
unhurried
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
slow
  • slowYou're so slow - hurry up!
  • leisurelyWe took a leisurely drive along the quiet coast road.
  • unhurriedI like the unhurried pace of life in the countryside.
  • gentleStart off with a gentle jog, then gradually increase your speed.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Peaceful and tranquil
  • balm
  • beatitude
  • consonance
  • coolness
  • dust
  • non-militant
  • peaceable
  • peaceably
  • peaceful
  • peacefully
  • peacefulness
  • quietness
  • sequestered
  • sleepiness
  • sleepy
  • soothing
  • soothingly
  • the calm before the stormidiom
  • the dust settlesidiom
  • tranquil
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(Definition ofleisurelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofleisurely

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People may eat their food hurriedly or be moreleisurely.
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These sources serve to reinforce one another, and in next section we give an informal andleisurelysurvey of the perspectives offered by them.
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The routines of editing the journal are dominated by a two-monthly rolling production cycle that is lodged within the moreleisurelyannual cycle.
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He felt that he could not respireleisurelynor stop breathing at any time because of this restlessness in respiration.
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However, the elderly may not have spent aleisurelylife completely withdrawn from the world of work.
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The rhythmic pattern of the bass line establishes theleisurelypace of the promenade.
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Overdamped systems are slow but stable; they should occur when time allows, as in maternal imprinting, with aleisurelypostpartum cleaning that establishes an enduring bond.
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The students were asked to record their own conversations with their friends, housemates, or family members in the casual,leisurelycontext of their own student or family home.
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Slack discipline and a prodigiouslyleisurelyrate of fire could find gunners caught unprepared by swift enemy attack.
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Physical functions, which tend to be linked to sociodemographic and health status characteristics, may be maintained even by moderate levels of activity, such asleisurelywalking.
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The musical style, along with the fantasy of over-indulgentleisurelybachelorhood, grows more dissonant with competing images of heroic masculinity, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Generally the tone is relaxed, evenleisurely: sometimes this produces a rather diffuse impression, with a tendency towards over-sectionalized structures linking a succession of separate four-bar phrases.
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The paper concludes with a discussion of representations of the 'leisurelybachelor' in other contemporaneous media.
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Here the duality is not between absolute and experiential time but between the more intensively experienced time of music and the moreleisurelypassing time of speech.
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The man is pictured in someleisurelyoccupation - playing tennis, selecting a fine wine, purchasing a tie (or, in one rather strange example, watching a portable television on the beach).
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