doldrums / ˈdoʊl drəmz, ˈdɒl-, ˈdɔl- /

⚽高中词汇低潮期低迷低潮低气压

doldrums 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art: August is a time of doldrums for many enterprises.
  2. 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.
  3. a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits.

doldrums 近义词

n. 名词 noun

depression

更多doldrums例句

  1. The prospects for geothermal—energy extracted from the nuclear furnace at the Earth’s core—are rising after decades in the doldrums.
  2. His successor, the first George Bush was at a loss about how to respond to the economic doldrums of the early 1990s.
  3. But the Republicans have the greatest opportunity to offer an alternate economic vision to the Obama doldrums.
  4. But in these scorching summer doldrums of 2013, you have to wonder: did it have to be this disappointing?
  5. Here's something to chew on while I'm gone: what if the current doldrums are the new normal?
  6. The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.
  7. Both got in the doldrums near the Start mark, but taking a chill 'Navahoe' got away with a long lead.
  8. Oh, well, there was no sense in staying in the doldrums forever.
  9. A low-pressure area of calm, light variable winds near the equator is known to mariners as the doldrums.
  10. Our vegetables gave out and we drank too much rain water and ate too much fresh fish down in the Doldrums.
  11. In the calm, windless doldrums, he never came up on deck but what the aroma of whisky travelled with him.