stagnate

英 [stæɡˈneɪt]

美 [ˈstæɡneɪt]

v.  停滞; 不发展; 不进步; 因不流动而变得污浊

过去式：stagnated　过去分词：stagnated　现在分词：stagnating　第三人称单数：stagnates　

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.20471 / COCA.18383

牛津词典

verb

• 停滞；不发展；不进步
  to stop developing or making progress
  1. Profits have stagnated.
     利润原地踏步。
  2. I feel I'm stagnating in this job.
     我觉得，干这份工作我没有长进。
• 因不流动而变得污浊
  to be or become stagnant
  1. The water in the pond was stagnating.
     池塘里的水逐渐变成了死水。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 停滞不前;不发展;无变化
  If something such as a business or societystagnates, it stops changing or progressing.
  1. Industrial production is stagnating...
     工业生产正停滞不前。
  2. His career had stagnated.
     他的事业已经陷入停滞。

英英释义

verb

• be idle
  1. The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
  2. He slugged in bed all morning
  Synonym:idlelazeslug
• cease to flow
  1. Stagnating waters
  2. blood stagnates in the capillaries
• cause to stagnate
  1. There are marshes that stagnate the waters
• stand still
  1. Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy

双语例句

• One was that capitalism did not after all suffer from a long-term tendency to stagnate because of under-consumption.
  一个是，资本主义最终不会因为消费不足而出现停滞不前的长期趋势。
• If you merely repeat the same experiences, you'll stagnate, and your mental capacity will atrophy.
  如果你只重复相同的经验，就会停滞不前，脑容量会萎缩。
• He didn't want to stagnate in his dull office job until he retired.
  他不想停滞在枯燥乏味的办公室工作直到他退休。
• A power shift is also under way in Asia as the Chinese market continues to boom while markets such as Japan stagnate.
  随着中国市场继续繁荣发展，而日本等市场陷于停滞，亚洲的权力更迭也在进行之中。
• After six hour the talk is stagnate.
  六个小时后，会谈就停滞了。
• But it demonstrates the ambition of many UK engineering companies not just to exploit emerging economies such as China for their low manufacturing costs, but also for their growing domestic demand as western economies stagnate.
  但它证明了诸多英国工程技术公司的雄心：不仅要利用中国等新兴经济体较为低廉的制造业成本，还要在西方经济体停滞之际，利用它们日益上升的国内需求。
• Where the masses are not roused, work will stagnate.
  哪里不发动群众，哪里的工作就死气沉沉。
• The IMF predicts it will contract by 0.4 per cent before doing little better than stagnate in 2013.
  IMF预计，欧元区经济将萎缩0.4%，而后在2013年达到接近停滞的状态。
• Yet the ECB has permitted nominal GDP and the money supply ( supposedly, the second pillar of its policies) to stagnate.
  但欧洲央行放任了名义GDP和货币供给（一般认为这是其政策的第二支柱）的停滞。
• GDP is forecast to fall sharply in Italy and Spain, and stagnate in France and Germany.
  意大利和西班牙的GDP料将大幅下滑，而法国和德国将呈停滞状态。