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limbo

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈlɪm.bəʊ]
  • 美式音标 [ˈlɪm.boʊ]
  • 国际音标 ['limbəu]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 監獄；地獄的邊境；放置丟棄物的場所；処於中間的或不定的狀態
  • n. (Limbo)人名；(納米)林博

词根记忆

  • 原指“地獄的邊境”

同根派生

     

英汉例句

  • the limbo of the stateless person
    無國籍人的不安定狀態
  • I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead. I felt as if I was in limbo.
    我不知道家人是生是死，感覺自己茫然無措。
  • Some other way of entering limbo must be thought of.
    要進監獄,還得另打主意.
  • the limbo of the stateless person
    無國籍人的不安定狀態
  • I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead. I felt as if I was in limbo.
    我不知道家人是生是死，感覺自己茫然無措。

词组短语

    短語

  • Limbo Skating 車底霤冰
  • Limbo rock 蓮步舞;淩波舞;地獄在動;連步舞
  • Limbo Fight 地獄戰鬭
  • LIMBO China 地獄邊境中國版;地獄邊境
  • limbo set 無邊的背景

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (UNCERTAINTY) an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
  • (DANCE) a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backwards to go under a low bar that is made lower each time he or she goes under it

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that someone or something is in limbo, you mean that they are in a situation where they seem to be caught between two stages and it is unclear what will happen next.
  • a Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar