Stagnant
['stægnənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
(a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Motionless, standing, close.[2]. Sluggish, inactive, inert, torpid, dull, heavy.
編輯:玛杰里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Motionless, currentless, tideless, unflowing, uncirculating, still, dull,torpid, lifeless, quiescent
ANT:Brisk, flowing, circulating, rapid, lively, agitated, seething, effervescent,restless
錄入:希莉娅
解釋/意思:
adj. stagnating: not flowing: motionless: impure from being motionless: not brisk: dull.—n. Stag′nancy the state of being stagnant.—adv. Stag′nantly.—v.i. Stag′nate to cease to flow: to become dull or motionless.—n. Stagnā′tion act of stagnating: state of being stagnant or motionless: dullness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff--on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The kennel was stagnant and filthy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- To me, who can do nothing, it has been like living under stagnant water. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This stagnant state of things makes them decline in health. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And in the country some get such stagnant habits of mind that they are almost fatalists. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The night was still, dark, and stagnant: the water yet rushed on full and fast; its flow almost seemed a flood in the utter silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- No other class has been so stagnant intellectually as the British military caste. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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