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单词 flounder
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flounder
verb[I]
uk
/ˈflaʊn.dər/us
/ˈflaʊn.dɚ/
toexperiencegreatdifficultiesor becompletelyunabletodecidewhat to do or say next:
困难重重；艰苦挣扎；不知所措
Helostthe nextpageof hisspeechand flounderedaround/aboutfor a fewseconds.他把演讲稿的下一页弄丢了，支支吾吾了几秒钟。
Although hisbusinesswas asuccess, hismarriagewas floundering.他虽然事业有成，可婚姻却陷入了困境。
Richardsonresignedaschairman,leavingthecompanyfloundering.理查德森辞去了董事长职务，公司因此在困境中苦苦挣扎。
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
  • frying pan
  • fumble
  • 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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flounder
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈflaʊn.dər/us
/ˈflaʊn.dɚ/
pluralflounderorflounders
aflatseafishthat can beeaten
鲆，鲽；鲆鱼肉
picture of flounder
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Sea fish
  • albacore
  • American shad
  • anchovy
  • barracuda
  • beluga
  • dory
  • eel
  • elver
  • flatfish
  • flathead
  • marlin
  • nurse shark
  • pilchard
  • plaice
  • pollack
  • stickleback
  • stingray
  • stonefish
  • sturgeon
  • swordfish
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(Definition offlounderfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

flounder| American Dictionary

flounder
verb[I]
us
/ˈflɑʊn·dər/

flounderverb[I](MOVE AWKWARDLY)

tomoveawkwardlyor to be in anawkwardordifficultsituation:
She floundered around in thewater.
Helostthe nextpageof hisspeechand floundered for a fewseconds.
Hisbusinesswasflourishing, but hismarriagewas floundering.
flounder
noun[C]
us
/ˈflɑʊn·dər/
pluralflounder

floundernoun[C](FISH)

aflatfishthat is used asfood
(Definition offlounderfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

flounder| Business English

flounder
verb[I]
uk
/ˈflaʊndər/us
to haveseriousfinancialoreconomicproblems:
Stockmarketsall over theworldare flounderingdueto thecurrentrecession.
Inspiteof aslightincreaseinexports, theeconomycontinuesto flounder.

floundering

adjective[before noun]
aflounderingstockmarket/economy/business
(Definition offlounderfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflounder

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The examination of flounders for additional macro- and microparasites was undertaken in conjunction with the examination for metacercarial cysts.
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In addition, the different feeding habits employed by flounders in the upper and middle estuary affect this parameter to a certain extent.
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Digeneans require invertebrates as intermediate hosts to complete their life cycle and thus the distribution of invertebrates determines the presence of digeneans in flounders.
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An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever.
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Other professional historians often floundered for lack of this sort of assistance.
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They subsequently remain within the flounders as they travel back upstream.
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Muscle squashes were carried out on a small subsample of the flounders used for the epidemiological survey.
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Nevertheless, the overriding fact remained that flounders at both locations were dominated, or co-dominated, by estuarine parasites.
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Third-stage larvae, fourth-stage larvae, immature and mature adults were found in flounders from the éresund throughout the year.
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In the experimentally infected flounders the worms survived and grew to maturity.
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Their imperial ambition floundered because it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits".
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Moreover, this can in turn lead to a specialised program that has a computed answer while the original program flounders.
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The system floundered, however, when technological warfare advances meant that sailing ships were replaced with faster ships able to disable and sink vessels from an extended distance.
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His political ambitions have floundered.
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In relatively short order, however, many of the new democracies undergoing market reforms appear to have floundered as a result, in large part, of political corruption.
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