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
- New inventions often languish in the laboratory for years.
新的发明都将在实验室里孕育多年。 - The US continued to languish slightly below the OECD average.
美国依然稍稍落后于经合组织国家的平均水平。 - Languish as with love or desire.
带着心愿或者爱好苦思。 - 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。 - 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? - Many other journalists languish in jail simply for doing their jobs.
还有许多记者仅仅是因为做了自己本该做的工作而身陷囹圄。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。