length: [OE] Length was coined in the prehistoric Germanic period from the adjective *langgaz (source of English long) and the abstract noun suffix *-ithō. The resultant *langgithō has subsequently diversified to Dutch lengte, Swedish l?ngd, Danish l?ngde, and English length. (German has plumped for the different noun derivative l?nge ‘length’, whose English relative lenge ‘length’ survived until the 17th century.) => long
length (n.)
Old English lengeu "length," from Proto-Germanic *langitho, noun of quality from *langgaz (root of Old English lang; see long (adj.)) + *-itho, abstract noun suffix (see -th (2)).
Cognate with Old Norse lengd, Old Frisian lengethe, Dutch lengte. Figurative sense of "the distance one goes, extremity to which something is carried" is from 1690s. Phrase at length "to full extent" is attested from c. 1500.
雙語例句
1. Strangely enough, you will automatically wake up after this length of time.
奇怪的是，過了這樣一段時間你就會自己醒來。
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2. The length of the war is one of the biggest unknowns.
戰爭要持續多久是最大的未知數之一。
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3. They trekked from shop to shop in search of white knee-length socks.
他們拖著步子從一家商店走到另一家，尋找齊膝的白襪子。
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4. The guy just loves to yap, and will do so at length.
那家伙就愛胡扯，而且一說起來就沒完沒了。
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5. He struck a match, and held it at arm's length.