limbo

limbo什么意思,limbo翻译

基本解释

n.: 林波舞（西印度群岛舞蹈，舞者向后弯腰钻过一次比一次降低的横杆）
网络: 地狱边境；迷失域；地狱边缘

权威解释

• 林波舞（西印度群岛舞蹈，舞者向后弯腰钻过一次比一次降低的横杆）:

  a West Indian dance in which you lean backwards and go under a bar which is made lower each time you go under it

• （尤指因等待他人作决定）处于不定状态:

  a situation in which you are not certain what to do next, cannot take action, etc., especially because you are waiting for sb else to make a decision

英汉解释

• 【宗教】地狱的外缘〔善良的非基督徒或未受洗礼者的灵魂归宿处〕

• 林勃舞〔西印度群岛一种特技舞蹈〕

• 监牢,拘禁

• 丢弃废物的地方;易被疏忽的地方

• 地狱的边境

• 中间过渡状态[地带]

词性分析

• 复数：limbos

例句

• Grey District mayor Tony Kokshoorn said the region was "in limbo" as they waited to hear the fate of the miners.

  格雷区市长托尼-考克舒恩说，当他们等待矿工命运如何的时候，一切都还是“悬而未决”的。

• Her anguish grew from her concentration as she saw herself sunken in that thick impenetrable fog: could she be in limbo ?

  当她集中精神注视自己、发现自己正沉没在难以渗透的厚雾中时，她的痛苦增长了：她可能是在地狱的边缘吗？

• But it"s easy to lose heart; especially when you are caught in the bewildering limbo between the death of the old and the birth of the new.

  但是，人们总是很轻易地就失去了信心，尤其是陷于新旧交替的当口时更是如此。

• He was surprised and dazed to find himself in such a glittering region, away from the shadowy limbo of his shelves.

  走出下面阴暗的排排书架，他对自己身处在这样一个光芒熠熠的地方感到既惊讶又震惊。

• "It is not a good way to treat people, " he said, "to leave them in limbo with no actual job. "

  “这样对员工是不好的”他说，“让他们没有实际工作，名存实亡是不好的。”

• But I"d rather see that, or even some honest friction, than a young guy still in limbo at the beginning of next season.

  我宁愿看到交易，即使有阻力，也不希望他在那样的矛盾中开始新赛季。

• There had been concern that British and other foreign forces would be thrown into a legal limbo if no agreement was reached.

  此前有人担心，如果没有达成任何共识，英国和其它外国军队将失去驻扎在伊拉克的明确法律依据。

• We are here to make limbo tolerable, to ferry wounded souls across the river of dread until the point where hope is dimly visible.

  我们让地狱不那么可怕，我们用渡船帮助受伤的魂灵度过恐惧之河，知道希望之光隐约可见。

• I"m in limbo, waiting to see if I"ve been accepted for the new job.

  在我等待是否能得到这份工作时我感觉身处地狱边缘。

• Once insulate, imprison in the slope of the garden the previous and small house, I the feeling consign into limbo, very depressed.

  一旦隔离，拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里，我顿感打入冷宫，十分郁郁不得志起来。