wallowing

英 [ˈwɒləʊɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɑːloʊɪŋ]

v.  (为保持凉爽或嬉戏在烂泥、水里)打滚，翻滚; 沉湎; 放纵
wallow的现在分词

复数：wallowings　现在分词：wallowing　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉溺（于不快的境况）
  If you say that someoneis wallowing inan unpleasant situation, you are criticizing them for being deliberately unhappy.
  1. His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity...
     他疲惫的心继续沉溺于自哀自怜之中。
  2. I wanted only to wallow in my own grief.
     我只想沉湎于自己的悲伤中。
• VERB (在水或泥浆中)躺卧，打滚
  If a person or animalwallows inwater or mud, they lie or roll about in it slowly for pleasure.
  1. Never have I had such a good excuse for wallowing in deep warm baths...
     我从来没找到过如此好的理由，可以美美地泡个热水澡。
  2. Dogs love splashing in mud and hippos wallow in it.
     狗喜欢在泥水洼里扑腾，河马则喜欢在其中打滚撒欢儿。

双语例句

• You can't just sit there wallowing in self-pity.
  你不能坐在那儿沉迷于自哀自怜之中。
• They're absolutely wallowing in money, ie very rich.
  他们家资广有（很富有）。
• The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing ( about) in the mud.
  孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
• Please stop floundering about and think of something to do. And again we were wallowing in the swell.
  你别到处晃来晃去的，想点儿事做。而我们又在摇摆颠簸中晃来晃去。
• Am I really so intent on wallowing in my own self-pity that I'm willing to cast a helpless innocent to those thieves?
  难道我真的是沉湎于自怜，竟乐于把那个无助的无辜者丢给那些盗贼？
• We watched the hippos wallowing in the mud.
  我们看见河马在泥中打滚。
• I wish she'd do something to help herself instead of just wallowing in self-pity!
  我希望她能做点自助自救的工作，而不要只沉湎于自哀自怜中。
• Climbing the karst mountains and wallowing in the cave mud baths are fun too.
  爬山和在洞中泥浴打滚也好玩。
• For these laments aren't for their own sake; it's not self-pity or a wallowing in one's tears.
  因为这不是为了他们自己而作的哀歌；这不是自我可怜，也不是要在泪海中沉溺不起。
• It is no longer the Dark Continent in continual economic free fall, wallowing in debt, poverty and disease.
  它也不再是经济像自由落体那样下滑的黑暗大陆，不再沉溺于债务、贫穷和疾病。