languish

Compared meaning: suffer and grow weak from longing or neglect (verb).

比较义项：因思念或被忽视而变得憔悴、痛苦（动词）。

• pine

  Pine stresses suffering from longing or yearning for someone or something absent or lost; typically followed by "for".

  pine 强调因渴望、思念某个不在身边或已失去的人或事物而痛苦，后面通常接介词 for。

  She pined for her hometown for years after moving abroad.

  移居国外后，她多年来一直思念着自己的家乡。

• languish 本词

  Languish stresses weakening or wasting away from prolonged neglect or being stuck in an unchanged, unfavorable situation; often followed by "in".

  languish 强调因长期被忽视或被困在一成不变的不利处境中而逐渐衰弱、荒废，后面常接介词 in。

  The old documents languished in a drawer for years, completely forgotten.

  这些旧文件被遗忘在抽屉里好几年，一直无人问津。

Pine and languish both mean to become weak or unhappy from suffering. Pine means suffering from longing for someone absent, often with 'for'. Languish means wasting away from long neglect, often with 'in'. Pine can mean a tree too; that is not compared here.

两词都可表示“因痛苦而变得憔悴、消沉”，但成因不同：pine 强调因渴望、思念某个不在身边的人或事物而痛苦，常与介词 for 连用；languish 强调因长期被忽视、放任不管而逐渐衰弱、荒废。这里不比较 pine 作名词时“松树”的意思。