flounders

英 [ˈflaʊndəz]

美 [ˈflaʊndərz]

v.  不知所措; 挠头; 支吾; 困难重重; 艰苦挣扎; (在水、泥等中)挣扎
n.  偏口鱼
flounder的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

The plural form for meaning 4 can be either flounder or flounders. 义项 4 的复数形式可以用 flounder 或 flounders。


• VERB 深陷困境;困难重重
  If somethingis floundering, it has many problems and may soon fail completely.
  1. What a pity that his career was left to flounder...
     多么可惜，他的事业深陷困局。
  2. The economy was floundering.
     经济深陷困境。
• VERB 踌躇;不知所措
  If you say that someoneis floundering, you are criticizing them for not making decisions or for not knowing what to say or do.
  1. Right now, you've got a president who's floundering, trying to find some way to get his campaign jump-started...
     现在，你们的总统正踌躇不前，试图找到某种办法来推动他的竞选活动的开展。
  2. I know that you're floundering around, trying to grasp at any straw.
     我知道你正不知所措，是在病急乱投医。
• VERB (在水中或泥里)挣扎
  If youflounderin water or mud, you move in an uncontrolled way, trying not to sink.
  1. Three men were floundering about in the water.
     有 3 个人在水中挣扎。
• N-VAR 比目鱼
  Aflounderis a flat fish that you can eat.
  1. Flounderis this fish eaten as food.
     (供食用的)比目鱼，偏口
  2. Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with stuffed flounder.
     但拔先生的餐盘里盛满了填馅的比目鱼。

双语例句

• Any of various flatfishes, chiefly of the genera Limanda and hippoglossoides, related to and resembling the flounders.
  比目鱼，孙鲽一种比目鱼，主要是黄盖鲽属和拟庸鲽属的鱼类，与鲽鱼有关而且很相似。
• In this case, the team flounders with poor requirements, being in the unpleasant situation to make assumptions as they go, because "the voice of the customer" is absent when questions arise.
  此时，团队的需求不清，困难重重，在他们前进时总在不愉快地做假设，因为问题出现时没有“客户的心声”。
• But there came a day when he actually caught two enormous flounders.
  但有一天他确实抓了两条极大的比目鱼。
• The results showed that there were no obvious effects on the ingestion behaviors of young starry flounders.
  结果表明：饲料颜色对星斑川鲽幼鱼摄食行为的影响不明显；
• At that moment, a lost kid constantly wonders, wanders, and flounders.
  一个迷失的孩子在困惑，在迷茫，但是一直在奋斗。
• Any of several small food fishes of the genus Citharichthys of Pacific waters, related to and resembling the flounders.
  沙孙鲽，比目鱼：任一种生活于太平洋水域的琴形鱼属的小食用鱼，与比目鱼有关联并相象。
• Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head.
  两只眼睛都长在头部右边的比目鱼。
• Enterprise architecture for the sake of doing enterprise architecture is a seemingly valid and important activity, but in retrospect flounders aimlessly in search of respect.
  为了EA而EA似乎是一项有效而且重要的工作，但是回想起来，这实际是漫无目的地挣扎、希望得到关注的举动。
• Objective: Based on the microecological principle, lactic acid bacteria were isolated from the autochthonous flora in gastrointestinal tract of healthy flounders.
  目的：根据微生态学原理，从健康牙鲆的肠道固有菌群中分离乳酸菌。
• By contrast Pakistan flounders, even though the president, Asif Zardari, declared a national polio emergency in January and received help from the United Nations and the Gates Foundation.
  相比之下，巴基斯坦则完全手忙脚乱，尽管其总统阿西夫·扎尔达里在1月份宣布了一份小儿麻痹症的紧急应对计划，还接受了联合国及盖茨基金的帮助。