languish
英 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ]
美 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ]
v. 被迫滞留; 长期受苦; 受煎熬; 变得衰弱; 未能取得进展
现在分词:languishing 过去式:languished 第三人称单数:languishes 过去分词:languished 复数:languishes
Collins.1 / BNC.14532 / COCA.11648
牛津词典
verb
- 被迫滞留;长期受苦;受煎熬
to be forced to stay somewhere or suffer sth unpleasant for a long time- She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
- She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
- 变得衰弱;未能取得进展
to become weaker or fail to make progress- Share prices languished at 102p.
股票价格停滞在102便士上。
- Share prices languished at 102p.
柯林斯词典
- VERB (被迫)受苦,受折磨
If someonelanguishessomewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation.- Pollard continues to languish in prison...
波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。 - No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
无人清楚如今有多少难民在到处流浪,或有多少人流离失所,在难民营里受苦。
- Pollard continues to languish in prison...
- VERB 中落;衰败;衰落
If somethinglanguishes, it is not successful, often because of a lack of effort or because of a lot of difficulties.- Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished...
没有了创始人的斗志与指引,公司逐渐走向没落。 - New products languish on the drawing board.
新产品在计划阶段即告失败。
- Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished...
英英释义
verb
- become feeble
- The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- After her husband died, she just pined away
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- She ached for a cigarette
- I am pining for my lover
双语例句
- With all the work we put into the class and the quests, we aren't going to let death knights languish in obscurity.
我们在职业和任务作了大量工作,不会让死亡骑士成为笑话或者没人关注的。 - For one, the longer these workers languish, the more that delays their careers& impacting how much they earn years from today.
比方说,年轻工作者挣扎于就业边缘的时间越久,职业发展就越遥遥无期&它将影响到几年后他们能挣多少钱。 - Pollard continues to languish in prison
波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。 - Otherwise, as we have seen with other disasters, communities can languish for many years in a state of dependence, with high levels of disease and mortality.
否则,正如我们在其它灾害情景中看到的,社会将在许多年中失去活力,依赖它人,伴随而来的是居高不下的疾病发生率和死亡率。 - Chicken sales are down at markets and restaurants, and caged birds languish unsold in pet shops.
市场和餐厅鸡的销售量一落千丈,宠物店鸟笼里憔悴的鸟也无人问津。 - The hardware maker's shares are now within touching distance of their 2008 high. Yet expectations for Dell are largely unchanged, and its shares languish well below last year's levels.
眼下这家电脑硬件制造商的股价距离2008年的高点已是触手可及。然而对戴尔的预期基本上没有什么变化,其股价也远低于去年的水平。 - Five odors choke our noses to make us languish in thinking.
五种气味,呛我们的鼻子,连带地使我们思维呆滞。 - And those she disdains, such as Secretary of State Dean Rusk, tended to languish.
而那些她鄙视的,则并不受重视,比如国务卿迪安•腊斯克。 - New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
新的发明都将在实验室里孕育多年。 - Why do people in developing countries leave undermanned farms to languish in urban unemployment, for example?
比如,为何发展中国家的人民要离开人手不足的农村,到城市里去经受失业的折磨?