| 词汇 | floundered |
| 释义 | floundered past simple and past participle offlounder 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 flounder frying pan fumble fun jungle not have a leg to stand onidiom on a razor edgeidiom out of the frying pan into the fireidiom pickle pressed rocky sticky strand weed Examples of flounderedfloundered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nodes containing only a satisfiable set of equality atoms and non-grounded negative literals are said to be floundered and have no children. An attempt by area gentlemen to gain a new charter for the town in 1675\\6 had floundered on the gentry's objections. Efforts to diversify the economy floundered as the exogenous shock of the early 1970s oil crisis impacted on the world economy. The debate floundered, unable to overcome the fuzziness of the premises. As the crisis deepened and the industry floundered, it became clear that individual approaches were hurting more than they were helping. Other professional historians often floundered for lack of this sort of assistance. Any node with a non-ground negative literal selected is a leaf of a tree, such a node is marked floundered. Their imperial ambition floundered because it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits". 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. They just floundered along as best they could. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The campaign could so easily have floundered without that support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That scheme floundered, and floundered hopelessly, because it produced results regarded by serving soldiers and sailors as inequitable as between man and man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was the atmosphere of panic, fear and intimidation that then existed as we floundered around wondering what could be done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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