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　

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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
  1. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
     她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
• 变得衰弱；未能取得进展
  to become weaker or fail to make progress
  1. Share prices languished at 102p.
     股票价格停滞在102便士上。

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。

英英释义

verb

• become feeble
  1. The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
  Synonym:fade
• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
  1. After her husband died, she just pined away
  Synonym:pine awaywaste
• have a desire for something or someone who is not present
  1. She ached for a cigarette
  2. I am pining for my lover
  Synonym:acheyearnyenpine

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Similar hopes were voiced after lawmakers approved a free-trade deal with Peru this past fall, but the three pending deals still languish.
  今年秋季美国与秘鲁达成的自由贸易协定让人看到了希望的曙光，但眼下政府对上述三份协议依然是一筹莫展。
• Languish as with love or desire.
  带着心愿或者爱好苦思。
• 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。
• Pollard continues to languish in prison
  波拉德继续受牢狱之苦。