languished

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

一百年以后，黑人仍然是在美国人的拐角里面失去活力社会和发现他自己流放在他的自己的土地里面。

Now, at a train station in communist East Germany, he learns that his mother died while he languished as a political prisoner.

现在，在一个共产主义东德的一个火车站里，他知道了他妈妈在他被当做政治囚犯羁押期间去世了的消息。

The company has long ceased to be seen as a top innovator and its stock has languished.

另外雅虎早已失去了一流创新公司的地位，它的股市表现也一蹶不振。

But since the end of a railway and road-building binge, the rural northern half of Iwate has languished.

但自从铁路和公路建成后，岩手北方的农村就开始衰落了。

Mobile usage in travel applications has languished for years with a poor technology capability and an even worse business model.

多年来，由于技术能力薄弱，商业模式更低效，旅游应用软件的移动应用一直发展迟滞。

Over the last decade, Yahoo Japan held onto its dominant position here while Yahoo languished virtually everywhere else.

在过去的十年中，雅虎日本在这里保持领先优势，但同时雅虎在其他地方却失去了活力。

And millions of farmers whose income has languished through years of cheap food are now earning well.

还有很多农民经历了几年的市场不景气后也有了不错的收益。

A few hundred yards away other Americans, our prisoners of war, still languished in a cruel captivity.

数百码之遥的另一些美国人作为战争俘虏仍然在煎受扣押的折磨。

Since the war the industry has gradually languished .

战争结束以来，工业逐渐衰退。

eg. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.

没有了创始人的斗志与指引，公司逐渐走向没落。

As I languished predictably in a prison cell later that evening, I contemplated whether people would understand why I'd done it.

当晚我不出所料地在牢房里度夜，我考虑到人们是否能够理解我行为背后的目的；

Numerous business documents have languished unread in file systems for the last decade or more.

无数业务文档隐藏在文件系统的角落中，已有十年或更久的时间未被阅读。

Going back to earlier projects that have languished and finishing them now - that's a perfect Mercury retrograde focus.

完成早些进展不顺的项目——这是水星逆行的一个完美的焦点。

The deal languished as the Bush administration didn't feel confident it could win ratification for it in the Senate.

由于布什政府对协定能否获得参议院批准没有把握，这份协定被束之高阁。

If GM and Chrysler had languished in bankruptcy, industry executives argue, things would have been far worse.

企业业内高管认为，如果通用汽车和克莱斯勒真的走到了破产地步，那么整个事态会变得糟糕很多。

She languished there for days, the wobbly ceiling fan swishing overhead, silent geckos darting along the walls.

她忧伤憔悴地在床上躺了几天，摇摇摆摆的吊扇在头顶嗖嗖地转动，壁虎悄无声息地在墙上飞窜。

Foreign language proficiency, a core competency of the service, has languished due to funding gaps.

驻外任职的一个关键竞争力就是外语的熟练不熟练，但是由于资金缺口，任职人员的热情大减。

A BURSTING real estate bubble set off the Japanese recession of the 1990s, which deepened as ailing banks languished.

20世纪90年代日本的经济衰退始于房地产泡沫的破裂，而随着银行业日渐不景气，这种经济衰退也愈加严重。

Productivity languished, and American industry was fading away in the face of foreign competition.

劳动生产率停滞不前，面临外国竞争美国的工业逐渐衰落。

the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society.

黑人依然在美国社会中向隅而泣。