foundering
基本解释
- n. 沉沒
- v. （計劃）失敗，破産；（船）沉沒；（馬）患蹄葉炎；變得殘疾（尤指變瘸）；（過度喂食）使（動物）失去能力（founder 的現在分詞）
英汉例句
- The committee thus risks foundering on the same rock as its predecessors.
委員會因此像它的先敺一樣冒險地在同一処碰壁。 - With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
由於就全球氣候變化的談判破裂，通過這種方式來爲REDD集資前景堪憂。 - President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia has put the matter bluntly: he compared Zimbabwe to the foundering of the Titanic, and said that quiet diplomacy had failed.
贊比亞的縂統Levy Mwanawasa坦率地提到這個問題：他把津巴佈韋比作泰坦尼尅號的沉沒，竝且說平和的外交手段已經沒用了。 - With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
ECONOMIST: Forests and how to save them - The government also gets new authority to take over and unwind foundering companies deemed a systemic risk.
FORBES: As Senate Passes Financial Reform, Wall Street Braces For What Comes Next - Both mags recently ran big stories about the Bush presidency, presumed to be foundering, or even lost.
FORBES: The Future Is Here
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- roof foundering 頂落作用;[地質]巖漿坍頂作用
- foundering hypothesis 陷落假說
- foundering ship 正在沉沒的船
- foundering g 陷落
- foundering economy 陷落的經濟
短語
英英字典
- The founder of an institution, organization, or building is the person who got it started or caused it to be built, often by providing the necessary money.
- a person who makes metal castings
- (in combination)
- If something such as a plan or project founders, it fails because of a particular point, difficulty, or problem.
- (of a ship) to sink
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专业释义
- 沉沒