doldrums 的定义
- a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art: August is a time of doldrums for many enterprises.
- the doldrums, a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.the weather prevailing in this area.
- a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits.
doldrums 近义词
depression
更多doldrums例句
- The prospects for geothermal—energy extracted from the nuclear furnace at the Earth’s core—are rising after decades in the doldrums.
- His successor, the first George Bush was at a loss about how to respond to the economic doldrums of the early 1990s.
- But the Republicans have the greatest opportunity to offer an alternate economic vision to the Obama doldrums.
- But in these scorching summer doldrums of 2013, you have to wonder: did it have to be this disappointing?
- Here's something to chew on while I'm gone: what if the current doldrums are the new normal?
- The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.
- Both got in the doldrums near the Start mark, but taking a chill 'Navahoe' got away with a long lead.
- Oh, well, there was no sense in staying in the doldrums forever.
- A low-pressure area of calm, light variable winds near the equator is known to mariners as the doldrums.
- Our vegetables gave out and we drank too much rain water and ate too much fresh fish down in the Doldrums.
- In the calm, windless doldrums, he never came up on deck but what the aroma of whisky travelled with him.