languishing

基本解釋

But the other investments are languishing.
但是其他投資卻成傚不大。
The soldier is lying on the bed, languishing of wounds.
士兵躺在牀上，傷痛難熬。
This is not to say that all of our young are languishing.
這竝不是說(shuō)我們所有年輕人都很是差勁。

It would also "release federally-owned chimpanzees, about half of the thousand chimpanzees that are languishing in American laboratories today, to sanctuaries."
Reza Moini says that there are a handful of Internet activists and website creators who have been arrested by the government and are now languishing in prison.
A law that would make in Yemen has been languishing in parliamentary committees for over a year now, and is expected to be voted on again in the coming weeks.

Finally free from defending himself, Hurwitz could have walked away and focused on his languishing businesses.
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If someone languishes somewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation.
If something languishes, it is not successful, often because of a lack of effort or because of a lot of difficulties.