lucubrate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night. rare
    — Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]
  2. To work or write like a scholar.
    — 1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261, […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.

词形变化

lucubrates present,singular,third-person lucubrating participle,present lucubrated participle,past lucubrated past

词汇关系

衍生词
lucubrated
相关词
elucubrate lucubration lucubratist lucubrator lucubratory

词源

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“to work by candlelight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lūx (“light”).
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