stagnate (第三人称单数简单现在时 stagnates,现在分词 stagnating,一般过去时及过去分词 stagnated)
- 停止运动,停止进步
- (指水,空气等) 停止流动,阻滞
If the water stagnates, algae will grow.- 水不流动就会长藻类。
- (指水,空气等) 闷,因不流动而不新鲜
Air stagnates in a closed room.- 空气在密室里很闷。
- 停止发展,阻滞
- 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock
- Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
2003, Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom, →ISBN,第 434 页:Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age.- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)