stagnate是什么意思？

stagnate

英[stægˈneɪt] 美[ˈstægneɪt]

• vi. 停滞，不流动，不发展，变萧条；
• vt. （使）（水等）停滞不流，（使）不动，（使）不活动，（使）迟钝，（使）不活泼，（使）变萧条；

第三人称单数：stagnates;

过去式：stagnated;

过去分词：stagnated;

现在分词：stagnating;

名词：stagnation;

例句

• Career development is faced with many predicaments, such as stagnate, discontinue and tiredness of career. 新时期女性职业发展面临着多重困境, 主要包括女性职业发展的停滞 、 业生涯的中断及职业厌倦等三个方面.
• The unpardonable sin of nature is to stand still, to stagnate. 自然界最不可饶恕的罪行就是驻足不前, 淤滞停止.
• Where the masses are not roused, work will stagnate. 哪里不发动群众, 哪里的工作就死气沉沉.
• If you allow your mind to stagnate, this particular talent will atrophy. 如果你老不用脑，那么这一特殊才能就会退化。
• If you allow your mind to stagnate, this particular talent will atrophy... 如果你老不用脑，那么这一特殊才能就会退化。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  停滞不前;不发展;无变化
  If something such as a business or society stagnates, it stops changing or progressing.
  例句
  Industrial production is stagnating... 工业生产正停滞不前。 His career had stagnated. 他的事业已经陷入停滞。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. stand still;
  "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy"
  2. cause to stagnate;
  "There are marshes that stagnate the waters"
  3. cease to flow; stand without moving;
  "Stagnating waters""blood stagnates in the capillaries"
  4. be idle; exist in a changeless situation;
  "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch""He slugged in bed all morning"