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
- If you encounter roadblocks, marshal your resources to get around them rather than letting a project languish.
如果你遇到了障碍,不是让项目失败,而是动员起所有的资源。 - Yet both belong to that wide, august circle of friends who never abandon us to languish in grief or solitude, but offer us solace in all pain.
然而,二者又都属于那一群贤恢弘的朋友圈中,这些朋友从来不遗弃我们,不让我们在凄楚与孤寂中哀怨凋零,而是蔚籍我们于所有可能的哀痛之中。 - 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。 - Such services may languish until a more effective governance strategy can bring them into the light of day.
在出台更有效的治理策略之前,这些服务可能会一直处于被搁置状态、永不见天日。 - 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。 - Languish as with love or desire.
带着心愿或者爱好苦思。 - New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
新的发明都将在实验室里孕育多年。 - 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。 - 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。