stagnate

英 [stæɡˈneɪt]

美 [ˈstæɡneɪt]

v.  停滞; 不发展; 不进步; 因不流动而变得污浊

过去式：stagnated　过去分词：stagnated　现在分词：stagnating　第三人称单数：stagnates　

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.20471 / COCA.18383

牛津词典

verb

• 停滞；不发展；不进步
  to stop developing or making progress
  1. Profits have stagnated.
     利润原地踏步。
  2. I feel I'm stagnating in this job.
     我觉得，干这份工作我没有长进。
• 因不流动而变得污浊
  to be or become stagnant
  1. The water in the pond was stagnating.
     池塘里的水逐渐变成了死水。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 停滞不前;不发展;无变化
  If something such as a business or societystagnates, it stops changing or progressing.
  1. Industrial production is stagnating...
     工业生产正停滞不前。
  2. His career had stagnated.
     他的事业已经陷入停滞。

英英释义

verb

• be idle
  1. The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
  2. He slugged in bed all morning
  Synonym:idlelazeslug
• cease to flow
  1. Stagnating waters
  2. blood stagnates in the capillaries
• cause to stagnate
  1. There are marshes that stagnate the waters
• stand still
  1. Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy

双语例句

• As sales stagnate, firms will delay paying suppliers for as long as they can.
  由于销售的停滞，各公司将会尽可能的拖延偿还供应商的资金。
• Without this the periphery will simply stagnate.
  如果做不到这一点，欧元区外围国家将只会陷入停滞。
• If the economy continues to stagnate we could see darker days for art collectors.
  如果经济继续停滞不前，我们可能会看到艺术品收藏家的日子将变得更加艰难。
• Cold air which reaches the basin from northeast tends to stagnate there during the late autumn and winter.
  在晚秋和冬季，从东北方向进入盆地的冷空气趋向于在那里滞留。
• The US is also like Japan in that, in such circumstances, government deficits rise and government debt starts to pile up, as tax revenues fall or stagnate and government spending and transfer payments rise.
  还有一个相似之处在于，在这种情况下，随着税收的减少或停滞，以及政府支出和转移支付的增加，政府赤字扩大，政府债务开始增加。
• Industrial production is stagnating
  工业生产正停滞不前。
• If you merely repeat the same experiences, you'll stagnate, and your mental capacity will atrophy.
  如果你只重复相同的经验，就会停滞不前，脑容量会萎缩。
• His career had stagnated.
  他的事业已经陷入停滞。
• Yet the ECB has permitted nominal GDP and the money supply ( supposedly, the second pillar of its policies) to stagnate.
  但欧洲央行放任了名义GDP和货币供给（一般认为这是其政策的第二支柱）的停滞。
• One was that capitalism did not after all suffer from a long-term tendency to stagnate because of under-consumption.
  一个是，资本主义最终不会因为消费不足而出现停滞不前的长期趋势。