| 词汇 | flounder |
| 释义 | flounder verb[ I ] uk /ˈflaʊn.dər/ us /ˈflaʊn.dɚ/ to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next: 困难重重；艰苦挣扎；不知所措 He lost the next page of his speech and floundered around/about for a few seconds.他把演讲稿的下一页弄丢了，支支吾吾了几秒钟。 Although his business was a success, his marriage was floundering.他虽然事业有成，可婚姻却陷入了困境。 Richardson resigned as chairman, leaving the company floundering.理查德森辞去了董事长职务，公司因此在困境中苦苦挣扎。 Experiencing difficulties be be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom be climbing the wallsidiom be for the high jumpidiom be/come up against a brick wallidiom fall into something frying pan fumble fun go through a bad/difficult/rough/sticky patchidiom jungle leg on a razor edgeidiom out of the frying pan into the fireidiom pickle pressed prob rocky sticky strand flounder noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈflaʊn.dər/ us /ˈflaʊn.dɚ/pluralflounder or flounders a flat sea fish that can be eaten鲆，鲽;鲆鱼肉 AlexeyKonovalenko/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Sea fish albacore American shad anchovy barracuda beluga eel elver flatfish flathead flying fish Pacific salmon pilchard pink salmon plaice pollack sprat stickleback stingray stonefish striped bass flounder | American Dictionaryflounder verb[ I ] us/ˈflɑʊn·dər/ flounderverb[I] (MOVE AWKWARDLY)to move awkwardly or to be in an awkward or difficult situation: She floundered around in the water. He lost the next page of his speech and floundered for a few seconds. His business was flourishing, but his marriage was floundering. flounder noun[ C ] us/ˈflɑʊn·dər/pluralflounder floundernoun[C] (FISH)a flat fish that is used as food flounder | Business Englishflounder verb[ I ] uk /ˈflaʊndər/us to have serious financial or economic problems: Stock markets all over the world are floundering due to the current recession. In spite of a slight increase in exports, the economy continues to flounder. flounderingadjective[ before noun ] a floundering stock market/economy/business Examples of flounderflounder The examination of flounders for additional macro- and microparasites was undertaken in conjunction with the examination for metacercarial cysts. In addition, the different feeding habits employed by flounders in the upper and middle estuary affect this parameter to a certain extent. Digeneans require invertebrates as intermediate hosts to complete their life cycle and thus the distribution of invertebrates determines the presence of digeneans in flounders. An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever. Other professional historians often floundered for lack of this sort of assistance. They subsequently remain within the flounders as they travel back upstream. Muscle squashes were carried out on a small subsample of the flounders used for the epidemiological survey. Nevertheless, the overriding fact remained that flounders at both locations were dominated, or co-dominated, by estuarine parasites. Third-stage larvae, fourth-stage larvae, immature and mature adults were found in flounders from the éresund throughout the year. In the experimentally infected flounders the worms survived and grew to maturity. Their imperial ambition floundered because it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits". Moreover, this can in turn lead to a specialised program that has a computed answer while the original program flounders. The system floundered, however, when technological warfare advances meant that sailing ships were replaced with faster ships able to disable and sink vessels from an extended distance. His political ambitions have floundered. In relatively short order, however, many of the new democracies undergoing market reforms appear to have floundered as a result, in large part, of political corruption. See all examples of flounder These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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