单词	limbo
释义	limbolim‧bo /ˈlɪmbəʊ $ -boʊ/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINlimbo Origin: 1 1300-1400 Medieval Latin, Latin limbus ‘border’2 1900-2000 ➔ LIMBER2 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Cops and gangsters alike prefer to see pachinko remain uneasily in limbo. Do they wander for ever in limbo? Goulding's move leaves Wigan's £75,000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away. I felt as if I was in limbo. Petey and Carol and Lois would be sent into limbo for a little scare. They - and the enterprises concerned - are now in limbo. Toward the same limbo where the Galactic Empire was heading. Well, how else are we ever going to get out of this limbo? Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► leave · Since some modules maybe in those states and would otherwise be left in limbo.· It left the files in limbo, and no action was taken on these cases.· They must be forgiven and not left in limbo, ready to be recalled if needed for attack or defence. ► remain · In fact, since President Reagan came to office in 1981 the system itself has remained in virtual limbo.· Cops and gangsters alike prefer to see pachinko remain uneasily in limbo. 1[singular, uncountable] a situation in which nothing happens or changes for a long period of time, and it is difficult to make decisions or know what to do, often because you are waiting for something else to happen firstbe in limbo I’m in limbo now until I know whether I’ve got the job.limbo of the limbo of his eight years in jail2the limbo a West Indian dance in which the dancer leans backwards and goes under a stick that is lowered gradually
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