Stagnant

(adj.) not growing or changing; without force or vitality .

迦勒编辑

• A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff--on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The kennel was stagnant and filthy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• To me, who can do nothing, it has been like living under stagnant water. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• This stagnant state of things makes them decline in health. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And in the country some get such stagnant habits of mind that they are almost fatalists. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The night was still, dark, and stagnant: the water yet rushed on full and fast; its flow almost seemed a flood in the utter silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• No other class has been so stagnant intellectually as the British military caste. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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