| 单词 | stagnate |
| 释义 | stagnate (once / 2323 pages) v If after high school you choose to live in your parents' house, keep the same job, and spend time with the same friends, your mother might worry that you've decided to stagnate, or stop moving forward. When water stagnates, it stops moving and then sometimes begins to smell bad and attract mosquitoes. Think of a marshy pond or an old puddle. Similarly in the figurative sense, when the economy or society stagnates, it doesn't just sit still, it loses momentum. The word carries with it a negative connotation as something that stagnates really should be moving. WORD FAMILYstagnate: stagnancy, stagnated, stagnates, stagnating, stagnation+/stagnancy: stagnancies/stagnation: stagnations USAGE EXAMPLESMarket researcher IHS Automotive expects sales to stagnate next year. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) Shippers' margins are falling or stagnating, despite steady price increases, because homes are roughly three times as expensive to deliver to as business addresses. Reuters(Dec 14, 2016) Since the turn of the millennium, we’ve seen stagnating living standards, eroding trust in public institutions, and rising anger at the political system. Slate(Dec 13, 2016) 1v stand still Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v cause to stagnate There are marshes that stagnate the waters Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v cease to flow; stand without moving Stagnat ing waters blood stagnates in the capillaries Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 4v be idle; exist in a changeless situation The old man sat and stagnated on his porch Syn|Ant|Hypo idle, laze, slug work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity do work, workbe employed moon, moon around, moon on be idle in a listless or dreamy way ride the bench, warm the benchbe out of the game daydream, moonhave dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's timebe lazy or idle lie about, lie aroundhang around idly |
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