英汉词典

limbo 基本解释

• n. 监狱；地狱的边境；放置丢弃物的场所；处于中间的或不定的状态
• n. (Limbo)人名；(纳米)林博

limbo 词态变化

limbo 中文词源

词源不详，可能来自limber, 柔软的，灵活的，用来指西印度群岛的一种舞蹈，舞者需后仰，且越来越低，引申词义处于不定状态。

来自拉丁语limbus,边缘。用于宗教术语，地狱的边缘。

limbo 英文词源

limbo

limbo: English has two distinct and probably unrelated words limbo. By far the older is the theological limbo [14], referring originally to that condition in which the souls of the dead exist that are neither in heaven nor in hell. It comes from Latin limbus ‘border, edge’, which in the Middle Ages was used to refer to a region on the borders of, but not actually inside, hell.

It very often turned up in the ablative case, in the phrase in limbo, which is how English adopted it. The other limbo [20], denoting a West Indian dance that involves passing underneath a progressively lowered bar, probably comes from limber ‘flexible, supple’ [16], which in turn might be from limb or possibly from limber ‘detachable forward part of a gun-carriage’ [15] (although spellings of that with a b do not occur before the 17th century).

No one knows where that limber came from, although it might ultimately be Celtic. Alternatively, if the bar is viewed as a sort of boundary that the dancer must cross, the terpsichorean limbo could be related to the theological limbo.

limbo (n.1)

"region supposed to exist on the border of Hell" reserved for pre-Christian saints (Limbus patrum) and unbaptized infants (Limbus infantum);" c. 1300, from Latin limbo, ablative of limbus "edge, border" (see limb (2)). It emerged from Latin in the ablative form from frequent use in phrases such as in limbo (patrum), etc. Figurative sense of "condition of neglect or oblivion" is from 1640s.

limbo (n.2)

dance in which the dancer bends backward and passes under a bar, 1956, of W.Indian origin, probably an alteration of limber.

limbo 英文释义

1. the state of being disregarded or forgotten

2. an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

3. (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

limbo 双语例句

1. the limbo of the stateless person

无国籍人的不安定状态

来自《权威词典》

2. Neither party accepted her, so she was in limbo.

两党都不承认她, 所以她遭到忽略.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. 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，感觉自己茫然无措。

来自柯林斯例句

4. We're in limbo at the moment because we've finished our work in this country and now we're waiting for our next contract.

我们目前正处于断档期,因为我们在这个国家的工作已经完成,正在等待下一个合同.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Some other way of entering limbo must be thought of.

要进监狱,还得另打主意.

来自英汉文学 - 欧亨利

limbo 实用场景例句

the limbo of the stateless person

无国籍人的不安定状态

牛津词典

His life seemed stuck in limbo ; he could not go forward and he could not go back.

他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。

牛津词典

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，感觉自己茫然无措。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The negotiations have been in limbo since mid-December.

从12月中旬开始谈判就一直处于停滞状态。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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.

期刊摘选

Normally, officials in his position are left in limbo for weeks or months.

但通常而言, 官员会在事发后被保留职位长达数周或者数月.

期刊摘选

Throughout that night I lay in the purple limbo between sleeping and waking.

我在半睡半醒的缥缈幻境中度过整晚.

辞典例句

That journey will be in limbo for at least a few more weeks.

这次执教至少在接下去的几周内仍会相当困难.

期刊摘选

The project must remain in limbo until the committee makes its decision.

该工程必须搁置,等待委员会做决定.

辞典例句

The only thing that will release you from this limbo is labor and delivery.

唯一能把你从这种牢笼中解放出来的就是分娩.

期刊摘选

Nordom is a rogue modron, hiding out in the bowels of the Modron Cube in Limbo.

诺顿是一个强盗魔冢, 躲在狱边异界的魔冢方块腹里.

期刊摘选

Some other way of entering limbo must be thought of.

要进监狱,还得另打主意.

英汉文学 - 欧亨利

If there is no agreement to amend it, Nepal will plunge into legal limbo.

如果没有协议可以修改它, 尼泊尔将陷入法律空白.

期刊摘选

I'm in limbo, waiting to know that whether or not I've got the job.

我正处于尴尬地位之中, 等待著知道是否有得到那份工作.

期刊摘选

In 1969 John Wallace Spencer wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost specifically about the triangle.

在1969年约翰华莱士斯宾塞写了一本称为消失的地狱的书明确提出有关魔鬼三角.

期刊摘选

Do they just float around in some form of limbo, doomed always exist and never biodegrade?

那些所有,是否并未消亡,只以某种形态存在于地球的某一处, 注定要永恒存在无法自然消解?

期刊摘选

Markets are likely to be in limbo, with volatility in ranges likely this week.

市场可能会处于不明朗的状态, 在本星期于不同范围内波动.

期刊摘选

That left many in limbo, waiting for the moment the smoke would clear.

在你宣布重要决定是, 也三思而后行.

期刊摘选

Our plans for buying a flat in Spain are in limbo at the moment.

我们在西班牙购置一套公寓的计划目前被搁置.

期刊摘选

Reyes now finds himself in limbo.

雷耶斯现在觉得自己成了烫手的山芋.

期刊摘选

The family was kept in limbo.

该家庭并不稳定.

期刊摘选

We're in limbo at the moment because we've finished our work in this country and now we're waiting for our next contract.

我们目前正处于断档期,因为我们在这个国家的工作已经完成,正在等待下一个合同.

《简明英汉词典》

However valid, these doubts and quibbles left the accord in limbo.

然而实际上, 诸如此类的怀疑和遁辞只会把协定打入冷宫.

期刊摘选

Neither party accepted her, so she was in limbo.

两党都不承认她, 所以她遭到忽略.

《简明英汉词典》

Pass through the limbo, jump out the window.

它穿越地狱边境, 跳出窗户.

期刊摘选

If your editor leaves the publishing company, your new book may be in limbo.

假如编者离开出版公司, 你的新书可能处在不确定的情况.

期刊摘选

China has tens of millions of people living in legal limbo.

中国有数千万人生活在法律的中间状态.

期刊摘选

Will they able to free themselves from this limbo?

他们能否将自己从这里解放?

期刊摘选

the limbo of the stateless person

无国籍人的不安定状态

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

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，感觉自己茫然无措。

柯林斯例句