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Barack Obama referred to China's recent space walk as a sign that it was catching up while America floundered.

巴拉克•奥巴马（BarackObama）提到，中国最近的太空行走意味着，在美国苦苦挣扎之际，中国正迎头赶上。

So the poor old Lion floundered about and floundered about, and as he could 't get up the steep sides of the well, he was drowned dead.

所以，可怜的老狮子在井中一直不停的挣扎捶打着，他然不能从陡峭光滑的井中爬出来了，最终，他被淹死了。

Well. . . " He floundered as he examined my smile, clearly not happy with my response. " I told her I had to think about it.

唔……“他一边仔细地审度着我的微笑，一边支吾道。显而易见，他对我的反应不是很高兴，”我告诉她我得想一想。

Suddenly one of the helicopters floundered, its landing gear snagged on the guy wire of a transmission tower.

突然，其中一架直升飞机的起落架被一个传送塔的支索线绊住挣扎不前。

After Mr Jobs lost a power struggle and left Apple in the 1980s, the company floundered until it reached the brink of bankruptcy.

上世纪80年代，乔布斯在一场权力斗争中落败并离开苹果后，该公司陷入了困境，最后甚至走到了破产边缘。

I floundered a bit for the next four years. I moved to Buenos Aires, where a friend found me a job as a sushi chef in a local restaurant.

在接下来的四年里漂泊了一阵，我到了布宜诺斯艾利斯，在那儿，一位朋友给我介绍了一份在当地餐馆做寿司主厨的工作。

It is a critical distinction, on which national policy floundered in the United States for many years.

这是多年来使得美国国家政策犹豫不决的一个关键问题。

The local economy, like that of so many other cities, has floundered.

像众多其它城市一样，芝加哥地方经济困难重重。

Presently, as we blundered and floundered along, there was a sharp cry, then a storm of exclamations.

突然，正当我们高一脚低一脚地挣扎着前进时，前面传来一声尖叫，随即是一片呼喊。

My jaw fell open. I floundered around in my head, trying to remember how to close it.

我的下巴掉了下来，搅尽脑汁就是想不起如何阖拢它。

Itstunned her for a moment and she floundered outward, struggling to swim and regain her breath.

她浑身麻木，笨拙的伸手划水，努力开始游泳和换气。

It has prospered, while advanced countries floundered. China has noticed.

在发达国家苦苦挣扎之时，中国却蒸蒸日上。

Ricardo Rocha and Anthony Gardner, the stand-in centre halves, floundered, run ragged by a tireless Andrew Johnson.

里卡多。罗查和安东尼。加德纳现在打中卫，而他们在安德鲁。约翰逊面前狼狈不堪。

Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol; however, sales were slow and the business floundered.

柯尔特于是创办了一家公司来生产他的旋转弹仓手枪，但销售缓慢，经营举步维艰。

she floundered for a moment, then rallied again.

她挣扎了一阵，接着恢复过来。

Japanese technology giants, meanwhile, have floundered.

同时，日本的技术巨头已经举步维艰。

The airline business floundered as fuel prices surged, the credit crunch hit and world-wide travel plunged.

随着燃油价格飙升、信贷危机爆发和全球范围内旅行人数骤降，航空业陷入苦苦挣扎的困境。

Still, advertising is scarce and such "retail schemes" , which cannibalise wholesale revenues, have floundered in the past.

然而，由于缺乏广告，这种替代批发收入的“零售机制”过去一直步履维艰。

Similarly, 3Com, which makes computer-networking gear, floundered as such products turned into low-cost commodities.

同样，生产计算机网络设备的3Com公司由于此类产品沦为廉价商品而感到不知所措。

They host students with radically different learning styles, many of whom have floundered in traditional classrooms.

对于挣扎在传统教育体制下的很多学生，他们赋予学生完全不同的学习方式。