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词汇 floundering
释义 floundering
present 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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 floundering


floundering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The verification methods used here can also be used to show that programs are free from (full) unification, occur-check, and floundering.
Second, treatment of floundering within negation is improved (it is often done poorly).
In the individual projects, specific theorems are given in the project assignment to keep the students from floundering.
We have also ignored floundering, which can occur as well as or instead of the other behaviours.
An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever.
It is the programmer's responsibility to prevent agents from floundering.
The actors were floundering: they committed themselves to making strange noises, artificial and energetic gestures, but it was all curiously empty and unengaging.
It is corporeal but not floundering.
However, because of our commitment to state education, some four-year-olds are taking up places in the local authority nurseries and are leaving those groups floundering.
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We are all floundering around trying to understand, and getting extremely angry.
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They seem to be floundering over what is happening within their party and over the divisions that exist.
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They have been floundering for years on this subject.
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My noble friend generously said that he was floundering when he asked his first question.
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It is no wonder that we are floundering around in the dark.
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Would a private contractor, floundering in the first few months of a four-year contract, have done half as well?
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