| 英语单词 | stagnation |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [stæɡ'neɪʃn] 美 [stæɡ'neɪʃn] |
| 中文释义 | n.停滞 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The country enters a period of stagnation. (2) But what happens if collectivist societies snap out of their economic stagnation? |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这个国家进入了经济停滞时期。 (2) 但如果集体主义社会迅速走出经济停滞呢? |
| vocabulary简明 | Stagnation is the state of being still, or not moving, like a sitting puddle of water where stagnation attracts mosquitoes. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The root of stagnation is the Latin word for "standing water," stagnatum. The stagnation of water can be a serious problem in parts of the world where mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, or where there is a shortage of drinkable water. There are also other kinds of stagnation, or inactivity — like a struggling country's economic stagnation or a writer's mental stagnation that results in writer's block. |
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