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小词详解 | languish
languish 英 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ] 美 [ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ]
After languishing under eBay’s control, in 2015 it broke away and re-listed.
经历在eBay的控制下萎靡不振之后,它在2015年剥离出来并重新上市。
——《经济学人》A film project based on Liu’s best-known work, the trilogy that began with “The Three-Body Problem,” was optioned and even filmed in 2015 but has since languished in postproduction, reportedly because of technical challenges and costs.
将刘慈欣最著名的三部曲《三体》改编为电影的计划于2015年被选中,甚至进行了拍摄,但是据报道,由于技术上的挑战和成本问题,后期制作一直处于停滞状态。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 遭受被迫留在不愉快的地方或处境的痛苦
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
人生的主要目的是诚实地生活、思想和行动;如果对肉体过多地注意,灵魂便失去活力了。
rot: gradually deteriorate through lack of attention or opportunity sag: decline to a lower level, usually temporarily molder: slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect