Stagnate

(verb.) cease to flow; stand without moving; 'Stagnating waters'; 'blood stagnates in the capillaries'.

(verb.) cause to stagnate; 'There are marshes that stagnate the waters'.

(verb.) stand still; 'Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy'.

伯纳德录入

• I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnate--they cannot develop or appear to advantage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:克劳斯