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
- 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。 - Let them languish in a box in your bedroom and you are sure to catch some flack.
让他们在煎熬中,在你的卧室,你一定要捕捉一些弗拉克。 - 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。 - While students languish in debt, many university presidents enjoy lofty paychecks.
虽然学生们债务缠身,但许多大学校长却享受着超高的薪水。 - Now the danger is that we will languish in a period of under-confidence.
目前的危险在于,我们会在一段信心不足的时期内消沉下去。 - 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。 - In the Tower of London, prisoners used to languish in chains, cold, and darkness.
过去,在伦敦塔里的囚犯受到镣铐、寒冷和阴暗的折磨。 - Almost four years after the$ 700bn Troubled asset relief programme for the banks, US house prices still languish roughly a third below their peak.
在面向银行的7000亿美元问题资产救助计划(Tarp)实施近4年之后,美国房价仍比历史峰值大约低了三分之一。 - 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。 - Some are bound to languish, but others may be passed& though there would then be further hurdles to jump, not least the president's power of veto ( George Bush has other conflicts on his mind).
其中一些肯定会夭折,但另一些则有可能通过&虽然还有更多的障碍需要通过,不仅是总统的否决权(乔治布什还在做其它的思想斗争)。