| 单词 | stagnate |
| 释义 | stagnateWord family nounstagnancystagnationadverbstagnantlyverbstagnateadjectivestagnant stag·nate /stæɡˈneɪt $ ˈstæɡneɪt/ verb [intransitiveI] PROGRESSto stop developing or making progress 停滞；不发展 Growth is expected to stagnate next year. 预计明年增长会停滞。 His career had stagnated. 他的事业停滞不前了。 —stagnation /stæɡˈneɪʃən/ noun [uncountableU] economic stagnation 经济停滞 Examples from the Corpus stagnate• Without this pressing at the edge of the performance envelope, both technology and productivity would stagnate.• Everyone needs new challenges. Otherwise you just stagnate.• In the last ten years, the country's agricultural output has stagnated.• It stifles innovation and allows policy-making to stagnate.• For centuries Galactic civilization has stagnated and declined, though only a few ever realized that.• Prices have continued to rise in the North, but to stagnate and fall in the South.• If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot.• Her freestyle times also began to stagnate, and those early morning workouts were becoming more a job than a joy.• This energy is called ch'i and can stagnate, become blocked or weakened, or have its flow reversed.• Business here has stagnated compared with other wine-producing regions.• a stagnating economy• However, economic activity began to slow in mid-1990 and stagnated in the fourth quarter. From Longman Business Dictionary stagnatestag·nate /stægˈneɪtˈstægneɪt/ verb [intransitiveI]ECONOMICS if an economy or industry stagnates, it does not grow, or it grows only very slowly The construction industry is stagnating and there has been a steep fall in new orders. a stagnating economy —stagnation noun [uncountableU] In Japan in the 1990s, a financial collapse led to economic stagnation. (1600-1700) Latin past participle of stagnare, from stagnum “area of water that is not flowing” |
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