languishing

英 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋ]

v.  被迫滞留; 长期受苦; 受煎熬; 变得衰弱; 未能取得进展
languish的现在分词

现在分词：languishing　

COCA.43066

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.
  1. Pollard continues to languish in prison...
     波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. New products languish on the drawing board.
     新产品在计划阶段即告失败。

双语例句

• Its share price is still languishing almost 80 per cent below its level before the muddy waters report.
  东方纸业的股价如今仍然比浑水提出指控前低近80%。
• But with its climate-change bill still languishing in Congress, Washington has little leverage.
  但由于美国的气候变化法案仍在国会遭到冷落，华盛顿几乎没有多少影响力。
• This conflict between the new urban capitalism, flourishing with party support, and the former rural capitalism, now languishing, has dug a social divide with no equivalent in other nations, rich or poor.
  在党的支持下繁荣起来的新都市资本主义和现在已经衰落的从前的农村资本主义之间的冲突造成了严重的社会分裂，这种分裂的程度在无论贫富的任何其他国家中都不曾出现过。
• After years of languishing, Europe's biggest economy is beginning to feel the benefit of reforms, particularly to its financial system.
  欧洲最大的经济体在经历了数年退步之后，开始收获改革成果，尤其是在金融体系方面。
• And what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal of romances.
  并且说也奇怪，她老象有满腔心事似的，那是由于她多读了几回香艳小说。
• He has been languishing in jail for the past twenty years.
  过去的二十年里他一直在监狱忍受折磨。
• She has been languishing for love and sympathy.
  她一直因渴望爱情和同情而烦恼。
• You definitely do not want a home languishing on the market.
  你绝对不想要一个家黯淡的市场前景。
• In spite of their best efforts, however, the dinner was a languishing affair.
  然而，尽管他们使尽浑身解数，宴会仍是索然无味。
• Which of these countries has a mercy-killing doctor now languishing in its jails?
  但是，在上述那个国家有医生因为实施安乐死而在监狱里服刑呢？