doldrums

noun

1. 忧郁；郁闷；消沉；没精打采
   the state of feeling sad or depressed
   1. He's been in the doldrums ever since she left him.
      自从她离开他以来，他一直很消沉。
2. 无生气；停滞；萧条
   a lack of activity or improvement
   1. The bond market normally revives after the summer doldrums.
      债券市场通常在夏天萧条期后开始复苏。
   2. Despite these measures, the economy remains in the doldrums .
      尽管采取了这些措施，经济仍然停滞不前。

1. PHRASE 处于低潮;陷于停滞
   If an activity or situation is in the doldrums, it is very quiet and nothing new or exciting is happening.
   1. The economy is in the doldrums.
      经济正处于萧条期。

1. The economy is in the doldrums.
   经济正处于萧条期。
2. She's been in the doldrums ever since her father died.
   自从她父亲去世以来，她一直很消沉。
3. For countries struggling to break out of economic doldrums, women represent an even bigger opportunity.
   有些国家目前仍然在努力走出经济低迷的困境，女性对这些国家意味着更大的机会。
4. The market bottomed out in 2002, then recovered modestly before hitting the summer doldrums in 2003.
   市场在2002年触底，然后略有回升，在2003年夏天又陷入熊市。
5. But now researchers have revealed a ten-point action plan to help young mums out of the doldrums.
   不过，研究人员最近公布了十点行动计划，以此帮助年轻妈妈走出忧郁的泥淖。
6. Metal prices, also driven by Chinese demand, have been in the doldrums.
   同样受到中国需求驱动的金属市场也处于低迷状态。
7. The economic doldrums have not hit demand; they may even have enhanced it.
   尽管经济低迷，但是任然没有影响顾客对产品的需求甚至可能有所增强。
8. South Koreans feel their country is rising from the doldrums.
   南韩人感到他们的国家正从经济低潮中回升。
9. The German economy, in the doldrums for six long years, is at last gathering speed.
   德国经济经历了长达六年的疲软期，终于逐渐加速。
10. Doldrums a period of stagnation or slump.
    经济萧条期：经济萧条或衰落期。
11. Property sales have been in the doldrums for some time.
    房地产销售一段时间以来不大景气。
12. The US economy may be in the doldrums and the eurozone debt crisis is lurching from bad to worse.
    眼下，美国经济或许已陷入低谷，欧元区债务危机正愈演愈烈。
13. This conundrum lies at the heart of why our economy is still in the doldrums.
    这一难题是我们的经济现在为何仍处于低迷的核心问题。
14. Well, we are out of the doldrums at last, sir.
    嗯，我们终于脱离无风带了，先生。
15. Let the stock market out of the doldrums, the restoration of confidence is the most important.
    让我们走出低迷的股市，恢复信心是最重要的。
16. Judging by the number of new tycoons, the rich have rebounded from the 2009 doldrums.
    根据新上榜的大亨们的数量来判断，全球富豪阶层已经走出了2009年的低迷。
17. The American market is as much in the doldrums as the British one.
    美国的市场跟英国的市场一样，正处于不景气状态。
18. Wall Street employees about to return from the summer doldrums have something new to worry about: their jobs.
    一波未平，一波又起。华尔街的员工还未完全从夏季萧条期恢复，又要开始担心他们的工作了。
19. Next time you're down in the doldrums, you might want to avoid the mall.
    根据一项对花钱决策方面的研究，下回心情不好的时候，也许你要考虑回避超市。
20. Investment banks had relied on these commissions during the financial doldrums following the 1973 oil crisis.
    在1973年石油危机后，投资银行就依靠那些佣金渡过历次金融萧条时期。
21. It is reassuring stuff to have around when financial markets are in the doldrums.
    在金融市场了无生气时，有这些东西在身边让人感到安心。
22. You recall the recent doldrums, there is not much problem, shi.
    回想一下近期你意志消沉的时候，没有什么大问题，就是打不起精神。
23. The industry remains in the doldrums, according to official figures out today.
    根据今天官方公布的数字，这个行业仍不景气。
24. But with the world steel industry deep in the doldrums, who needed iron ore carries?
    世界钢铁工业很不景气，谁还需要这些铁矿砂船呢？
25. It is our division's newly developed SME networking products that end the prolonged period of the doldrums.
    正是我们部门新近开发的中小企业网络产品结束了本公司旷日持久的萧条局面。
26. But it has not taken more aggressive measures to help the market out of its doldrums.
    但是，北京并未采取更为积极的措施帮助市场摆脱低迷。
27. Despite these measures, the economy remains in the doldrums.
    尽管采取了这些措施，经济状况仍然毫无起色。
28. Taiwan equities have made some of the most spectacular recoveries from last year's doldrums, with the benchmark Taiwan weighted index rising 74 per cent from a year ago on signs that the local economy will benefit from warmer ties with mainland China.
    台湾股市上演了从去年低迷中复苏的一些最壮观行情，基准的台湾加权指数较一年前上涨了74%。有迹象表明，台湾经济将受益于与内地关系的升温。
29. With the economy in the doldrums, advocates of cutting tax rates for middle-class Americans were again being heard.
    随着经济不景气状况的出现，再一次响起为了中产阶级美国人而降低税率的呼声。
30. The Afghan and Iraq war's bad influence seemed to put the US in the doldrums.
    阿富汗和伊拉克两场战争的，似乎美国依然走不出低潮。

noun

1. a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific

2. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
   1. economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation

   Synonym:    stagnationstagnancy