languished
美 [?læ?ɡw??] 
英 ['læ?ɡw??]
- v.憔悴；潦倒；衰弱；(草木等)凋萎
- n.憔悴；惹人憐愛的感傷模樣[倦態等]；脈脈含情
- 網絡失去活力；被忽視；凋謝的
詞形變化
第三人稱單數：languishes 現在分詞：languishing 過去式：languished 反義詞
同義詞
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
一百年以后，黑人仍然是在美國人的拐角里面失去活力社會和發現他自己流放在他的自己的土地里面。
Now, at a train station in communist East Germany, he learns that his mother died while he languished as a political prisoner.
現在，在一個共產主義東德的一個火車站里，他知道了他媽媽在他被當做政治囚犯羈押期間去世了的消息。
The company has long ceased to be seen as a top innovator and its stock has languished.
另外雅虎早已失去了一流創新公司的地位，它的股市表現也一蹶不振。
But since the end of a railway and road-building binge, the rural northern half of Iwate has languished.
但自從鐵路和公路建成后，巖手北方的農村就開始衰落了。
Mobile usage in travel applications has languished for years with a poor technology capability and an even worse business model.
多年來，由于技術能力薄弱，商業模式更低效，旅游應用軟件的移動應用一直發展遲滯。
Over the last decade, Yahoo Japan held onto its dominant position here while Yahoo languished virtually everywhere else.
在過去的十年中，雅虎日本在這里保持領先優勢，但同時雅虎在其他地方卻失去了活力。
And millions of farmers whose income has languished through years of cheap food are now earning well.
還有很多農民經歷了幾年的市場不景氣后也有了不錯的收益。
A few hundred yards away other Americans, our prisoners of war, still languished in a cruel captivity.
數百碼之遙的另一些美國人作為戰爭俘虜仍然在煎受扣押的折磨。
Since the war the industry has gradually languished .
戰爭結束以來，工業逐漸衰退。
eg. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
沒有了創始人的斗志與指引，公司逐漸走向沒落。
As I languished predictably in a prison cell later that evening, I contemplated whether people would understand why I'd done it.
當晚我不出所料地在牢房里度夜，我考慮到人們是否能夠理解我行為背后的目的；
Numerous business documents have languished unread in file systems for the last decade or more.
無數業務文檔隱藏在文件系統的角落中，已有十年或更久的時間未被閱讀。
Going back to earlier projects that have languished and finishing them now - that's a perfect Mercury retrograde focus.
完成早些進展不順的項目——這是水星逆行的一個完美的焦點。
The deal languished as the Bush administration didn't feel confident it could win ratification for it in the Senate.
由于布什政府對協定能否獲得參議院批準沒有把握，這份協定被束之高閣。
If GM and Chrysler had languished in bankruptcy, industry executives argue, things would have been far worse.
企業業內高管認為，如果通用汽車和克萊斯勒真的走到了破產地步，那么整個事態會變得糟糕很多。
She languished there for days, the wobbly ceiling fan swishing overhead, silent geckos darting along the walls.
她憂傷憔悴地在床上躺了幾天，搖搖擺擺的吊扇在頭頂嗖嗖地轉動，壁虎悄無聲息地在墻上飛竄。
Foreign language proficiency, a core competency of the service, has languished due to funding gaps.
駐外任職的一個關鍵競爭力就是外語的熟練不熟練，但是由于資金缺口，任職人員的熱情大減。
A BURSTING real estate bubble set off the Japanese recession of the 1990s, which deepened as ailing banks languished.
20世紀90年代日本的經濟衰退始于房地產泡沫的破裂，而隨著銀行業日漸不景氣，這種經濟衰退也愈加嚴重。
Productivity languished, and American industry was fading away in the face of foreign competition.
勞動生產率停滯不前，面臨外國競爭美國的工業逐漸衰落。
the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society.
黑人依然在美國社會中向隅而泣。
A few hundred yards away other Americans, our prisoners of war, still languished in a cruel captivity.
數百碼之遙的另一些美國人作為戰爭俘虜仍然在煎受扣押的折磨。
My interest in the subject has greatly languished.
我對這一問題的興趣大大減退了。
After his death optics again languished.
他死后，光學又衰落了。
Since parting, my face looks languished, As I half think of my boy and half hate him.
自從別後減容光，半是思郎半恨郎。
In recent years, Japan has languished on many fronts. Its economy has been weak, its politics muddled and its birth rate declining.
近年來，日本在很多領域都衰敗了。日本經濟持續低迷，政壇亂作一團，出生率也在不斷下降。
Yet for over a decade he has languished in jail awaiting a response to his plea for mercy.
十年來，他一直在監獄中倍受煎熬地等待著對他的寬恕請求的答復。
On her side, Cosette languished.
在珂賽特那一面，她終日郁郁不樂。
The Australian group has issued a number of profits warnings this year and its shares languished at A$4. 06 at Friday's close.
今年以來，新農公司發布了一系列盈利預警。上周五收盤時，該公司股價已跌至每股4.06澳元。
Why has the creativity of the San Francisco area, epitomised by Silicon Valley, developed while other regions have languished?
為什么以硅谷（SiliconValley）為代表的舊金山地區的創造力得到了發展，而其它地區卻停滯不前？
As a result, AOL has languished for the past decade and made a number of strategic missteps.
結果，AOL十年來日見凋敝，且實施了許多錯誤戰略步驟。
Single-celled plants languished in the primeval seas, while a layer of life-supporting oxygen gradually formed above them.
單細胞的植物在原始的浩瀚大海里失去活力，而在它們的上方正逐漸形成一層維持生命的氧氣。
But the issue has languished over the years and the current Doha round of trade negotiations remains moribund.
但近幾年，該問題毫無進展，而且本輪多哈貿易談判仍然停滯不前。
The Catholic Lithuanians were beyond the pale as Slavs , as far as Himmler was concerned, so they languished in special police battalions.
天主教的立陶宛人和斯拉夫人一樣蒼白，他們不受希姆萊的重視，因此在特種警察部隊中很少。
One notorious and impoverished slum in northern Haiti languished with no public or private assistance.
位于海地北部的一個名聲不好，貧困潦倒的貧民窟里，民眾正為得不到公共或者私人的援助而苦不堪言。
California languished then in a fiscal crisis whose causes were pretty much the same as today.
加州當時正陷于一場財政危機，原因跟今天遇到的一樣。
Einstein's brain samples languished in a cider box next to the beer cooler under his desk.
愛因斯坦的腦部切片長年塵封在哈維醫生辦公桌底下小冰箱旁邊的一個蘋果酒盒子里。
Our reputation in the world is diminished , our economy has languished , and civility and common decency in government have perished .
我們在世界上的名聲在降低，我們的經濟在衰退，政府的禮節和共有的莊重在毀滅。不知道怎么譯。
Scandinavian tourists languished in the summer Mediterranean heat.
在地中海的酷暑之下，斯堪的納維亞的旅游者的數量減少了。
Trade deals with Colombia and Panama have also languished without Congressional action.
與哥倫比亞和巴拿馬的貿易協議也因沒有進行國會投票失去活力了。
and Susan McDougal, who languished in jail for refusing to testify at Starr's grand juries for reasons never made clear.
蘇珊因為拒絕向斯塔爾陪審團證實從未搞清楚的原因而在獄中備受折磨。
Where communal farms once languished, one can find modern skyscrapers and Starbucks.
一個曾經集體農場毫無活力的地方，可以找到現代摩天大樓和星巴克。
For these comments, he received a $1, 000 fine and languished in jail for four months until he could raise the funds to pay the fine.
為此，他被罰款$1000美元，并坐牢四個月，直到籌齊資金支付罰款為止。
The girl thereupon fell into such deep reflection that conversation languished.
隨即這個少女便陷入了沉思，于是談話冷下去了。
