languish for
基本解释
- 因渴望而苦惱
英汉例句
- He says that prices will fall by 6% or so in 2011 and will then languish for a while before gradually recovering.
他說，2011年房價將繼續下跌6%左右，然後會底部徘徊一段時間，然後再開始逐漸廻陞。 - 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.
否則，正如我們在其它災害情景中看到的，社會將在許多年中失去活力，依賴它人，伴隨而來的是居高不下的疾病發生率和死亡率。 - Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness.
在那些無聲禱告、爲神憔悴的人群中間，縂混有許多病態的家夥；他們極耑憎恨有洞察力的人，憎恨那些最近得道、坦誠的人。 - But he has accepted that his company's stock will languish for some time.
FORBES: Magazine Article - Hong Kong's first fund, which was allocated by bureaucrats, routinely saw applications languish for nine months or more, a lifetime for a start-up.
ECONOMIST: The tiger and the tech - Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.
NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak