['limbəu]
limbo
n. 丢弃废物的地方(中间过渡状态,拘禁)

词形变化:

名词复数:limbos

例句与用法:

  1. By not specifying today which of the21 plants would be closed, Mr.Stempel put the lives of thousands of workers in limbo.
    由于斯坦普尔先生今天未指明在21个厂中关闭哪一个,使得数千工人的生活没有着落。
  2. Management kept her promotion in limbo for months.
    有好几个月领导将她的升迁之事放置一边
  3. I'm in limbo, waiting to know if I've got the job or not.
    我心神不定,等着知道是否已得到了那份工作。

英英解释:

名词 limbo:

  1. the state of being disregarded or forgotten
  2. 同义词:oblivion
  3. an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
  4. (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)