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stagnation

/stag-ney-shuhn/US // stægˈneɪ ʃən //

呆滞,停滞不前,呆滞状态,停滞

Related Words

sluggishness不景气,呆滞,不振,呆滞性status身份,身份地位,身份信息torpor默默无语,默不作声,默默无言,默默无语的人torpidity酷刑,酷刑性,酷刑性的,酷刑罪stasis停滞期,停滞,停滞不前,静止期quiescence静止状态,静止,静止期,静默calm平静,平息,平静的,平静下来dullness暗淡无光,暗淡,沉闷,呆滞

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
    • : a foulness or staleness, as one emanating from a standing pool of water.
    • : a failure to develop, progress, or advance: periods of economic stagnation followed by bursts of growth.
    • : the state or quality of being or feeling sluggish and dull: Happily, they have been able to avoid stagnation in their ten-year marriage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouninactivity
Synonyms
sluggishness不景气,呆滞,不振,呆滞性calm平静,平息,平静的,平静下来dullness暗淡无光,暗淡,沉闷,呆滞quiescence静止状态,静止,静止期,静默stasis停滞期,停滞,停滞不前,静止期status身份,身份地位,身份信息torpidity酷刑,酷刑性,酷刑性的,酷刑罪torpor默默无语,默不作声,默默无言,默默无语的人

Examples

  • This concentration of innovation in a few dominant companies has led to inequality and, for many, wage stagnation.

  • This period, between 1964 and 1982, is called the “era of stagnation” in the graph below.

  • There’s no wasted time and little of the stagnation that usually happens when one player surveys the floor.

  • Much of this discontent is related to economic issues — some of them specific, like wage stagnation and the spike in health-care and college costs.

  • The pattern of no owls, poor sleep, second-guessing, and general stagnation continued on for more than a week.

  • Republicans must seize this opportunity to pass legislation to improve the economic stagnation.

  • The Taliban, power cuts, corruption, economic stagnation, Osama bin Laden, all of it.

  • Others face career uncertainty and stagnation as promotion rates continue to drop for both enlisted and officers.

  • India expects Modi to deliver the country from economic stagnation.

  • So this is Obama, hope and change, stock market rallies for the top five percent, and wage stagnation for the rest.

  • This is a state of affairs tending to produce stagnation and vigorously to check advance.

  • He was a savage still, and at the close of the struggle he settled down into a second stage of stagnation.

  • Once reached, it tended to continue indefinitely, stagnation following the era of growth.

  • While talking to this officer, a lieutenant, he contrived to interest him with an account of the stagnation of trade.

  • This remarkable contrast between the progress of the north-east and the stagnation of the rest of the country is no new thing.

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