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单词 marooned
释义
marooned
adjective
uk
/məˈruːnd/us
/məˈruːnd/
leftin aplacefrom which you cannotescape:
困在某处的，处于无法脱身的困境中的
What would youmissmost if youfoundyourself marooned on adesertisland?如果你发现自己被困于荒岛，你最想念的会是什么？
Thepoliceareadvisingmotoristsmarooned by theblizzardstostayintheircarsuntil therescueservicescanreachthem.警方建议被困于暴风雪中的驾车者在救援人员到达前先呆在车中。
Synonym
stranded
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experiencing difficulties
  • be
  • be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
  • be climbing the wallsidiom
  • be for the high jumpidiom
  • be/come up against a brick wallidiom
  • doo-doo
  • embattled
  • fall intosomething
  • flounder
  • frying pan
  • jungle
  • leg
  • multiproblem
  • not have a leg to stand onidiom
  • on a razor edgeidiom
  • out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
  • pickle
  • rocky
  • sticky
  • weed
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maroon

verb[T]uk
us
(Definition ofmaroonedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

marooned| American Dictionary

marooned
adjective[not gradable]
us
/məˈrund/
leftin aplacefrom which you cannotescape:
Myflightwascanceledbecause of asnowstormand I was marooned at theDenverairport.
(Definition ofmaroonedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmarooned

marooned
One site relates to the sealing era of the 1820s, while the second may be associated with amaroonedsealing gang in the 1870s.
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The survivors weremaroonedon an ice floe and driven against a large berg.
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Others, with the ex-chief, aremaroonedbelow the gangway.
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These people are notmaroonedon a desert island.
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They have been subject to a dehumanising system that has left them feelingmaroonedand helpless.
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In that way the pathologist will not feel isolated andmarooned.
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We may find ourselvesmaroonedhere with academic discussions about things which may not be very interesting and not always very important.
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The lights can get broken, and that leads to accidents to children, who are as it weremaroonedin mid-air.
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When the husband takes the car to work as he must—there is no alternative way of travelling—his wife and children aremarooned.
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There are old-age pensioners, disabled people and families who are abandoned andmaroonedby the lack of bus services.
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This means that families and, as they grow older, pensioners becomemaroonedby their less affluent state and by the decline in public transport.
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Our proposals to give mandatory rate relief will assist a large number of people who are themselves disadvantaged and in some casesmarooned.
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There must be a breakdown procedure or people may bemaroonedin the middle of a supermarket or in an isolated lane.
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Many of these migrants aremaroonedin distant countries and are in a position of special difficulty.
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Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy,marooned, shell-shocked and becalmed.
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