floundering / ˈflaʊn dər /

漫无边际漫无边际的漫无目的方兴未艾

floundering 的定义

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

floundering 近义词

v. 动词 verb

struggle; be in the dark

更多floundering例句

  1. The search giant is keenly interested in growing its cloud computing division alongside its business collaboration tools, yet its many attempts at developing chat services—Allo, Duo, Hangouts—have floundered.
  2. In fact, the games industry has thrived at a time when other entertainment mediums have floundered.
  3. Arcadia, once a mighty business that dominated the British high street with brands such as Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, and Dorothy Perkins, has been similarly floundering.
  4. In Coach Zac Taylor’s second season, the team is floundering at 2-7-1 and now is without its franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future.
  5. Moreover, the show never fully decides whether Rory is floundering professionally because the economy is bad, because she is a bad journalist, or because she isn’t emotionally strong enough to handle the hustle.
  6. His November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech in Iowa jump-started a floundering campaign.
  7. There between the third and fourth version of “Sheep in Fog” is the shift that sets Plath floundering and signals her desperation.
  8. In this case, Santorum received a major assist from Ron Paul, who left Romney floundering in an embarrassingly weak third.
  9. In 2011, with the economy floundering and even bad jobs in short supply, advice like this might ring a bit idealistic.
  10. When she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, leaving behind an undistinguished record, she was floundering.
  11. So had he stopped there it would have been wonderfully well; but he had to go floundering innocently on.
  12. He loosed the blankets from his shoulders, and floundering down the slope was lost in the vapor.
  13. Dawn found him at last, floundering hopelessly in snow-screened woods, going on toward he knew not where.
  14. After two or three more steps, the bottom fell away and, floundering savagely, he sank to his shoulders.
  15. My fears of burglars or stray cattle were dispelled by the voices of lost and floundering men calling to each other.