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词汇 marooned
释义 marooned
adjective
uk /məˈruːnd/ us /məˈruːnd/
left in a place from which you cannot escape: 困在某处的,处于无法脱身的困境中的
What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?如果你发现自己被困于荒岛,你最想念的会是什么?
The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them.警方建议被困于暴风雪中的驾车者在救援人员到达前先呆在车中。
Synonym
stranded
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marooned | American Dictionary


marooned
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/məˈrund/
left in a place from which you cannot escape:
My flight was canceled because of a snowstorm and I was marooned at the Denver airport.

Examples of marooned


marooned
The survivors were marooned on an ice floe and driven against a large berg.
Others, with the ex-chief, are marooned below the gangway.
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These people are not marooned on a desert island.
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They have been subject to a dehumanising system that has left them feeling marooned and helpless.
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In that way the pathologist will not feel isolated and marooned.
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We may find ourselves marooned here with academic discussions about things which may not be very interesting and not always very important.
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The lights can get broken, and that leads to accidents to children, who are as it were marooned in mid-air.
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When the husband takes the car to work as he must—there is no alternative way of travelling—his wife and children are marooned.
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There are old-age pensioners, disabled people and families who are abandoned and marooned by the lack of bus services.
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This means that families and, as they grow older, pensioners become marooned by their less affluent state and by the decline in public transport.
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Our proposals to give mandatory rate relief will assist a large number of people who are themselves disadvantaged and in some cases marooned.
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There must be a breakdown procedure or people may be marooned in the middle of a supermarket or in an isolated lane.
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Many of these migrants are marooned in distant countries and are in a position of special difficulty.
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Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy, marooned, shell-shocked and becalmed.
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In such an event the possibility of so many people being marooned is alarming.
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