Stagnation

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

(noun.) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation.

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• Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Adventure is to stagnation what champagne is to flat porter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Here is a stagnation that is repugnant. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But was it happy in its stagnation? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• School solitude, conventual silence and stagnation, anything seemed preferable to living embroiled with Dr. John. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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