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flounder

/floun-der/US // ˈflaʊn dər //UK // (ˈflaʊndə) //

鲽鱼,漫天飞舞,漫天飞舞的鱼群,漫无目的的游荡

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements: He saw the child floundering about in the water.
    • : to struggle clumsily or helplessly: He floundered helplessly on the first day of his new job.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbstruggle; be in the dark
Forms: floundered, floundering

Examples

  • As the continent is constituted currently, you cannot have a successful Pan-Africanism economically, socially, and culturally, while its biggest nation flounders.

  • It’s unlikely the HEROES Act will get passed as is, but you know, a floundering industry can dream.

  • As Magic Leap floundered, it began to re-examine its options.

  • Starting several decades ago, four psychologists decided to examine how individuals flourish or flounder over the long run.

  • A decade ago, city leaders floated a brand new City Hall complex but the idea floundered and the city, instead, began renegotiating its leases.

  • So far, proposals of “Senate flounder,” “House blowfish,” and “Hope and Change smelt” have met with little public acceptance.

  • Instead, Bayou, Israel's hedge-fund group, continued to flounder and the deception only grew.

  • Why did Obama's White House flounder in its initial response to the economic crisis?

  • China may flounder on the soccer field, but the country is in the grip of a mad World Cup fever.

  • It has a bathing beach where the gals show what they've got and fat men flounder and cavort far beyond their capacities.

  • Men crawled over one another, then dropped to the first open spot, to flounder there a moment, then roar in snoring sleep.

  • Those who followed were compelled to flounder on the best way they could.

  • And they can go where horses couldn't do anything but flounder and probably cut themselves with their own feet.

  • She was most aptly named; indeed, I think the Flounder would have been a still more appropriate designation.