foundering
基本解释
- n. 沉没
- v. （计划）失败，破产；（船）沉没；（马）患蹄叶炎；变得残疾（尤指变瘸）；（过度喂食）使（动物）失去能力（founder 的现在分词）
同根派生
英汉例句
- The committee thus risks foundering on the same rock as its predecessors.
委员会因此像它的先驱一样冒险地在同一处碰壁。 - With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
由于就全球气候变化的谈判破裂，通过这种方式来为REDD集资前景堪忧。 - 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.
赞比亚的总统Levy Mwanawasa坦率地提到这个问题：他把津巴布韦比作泰坦尼克号的沉没，并且说平和的外交手段已经没用了。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- roof foundering 顶落作用;[地质]岩浆坍顶作用
- foundering hypothesis 陷落假说
- foundering ship 正在沉没的船
- foundering g 陷落
- foundering economy 陷落的经济
短语
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
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 沉没