stagnation
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verb (used without object)
1. to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
2. to be or become stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
3. to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing:
My [mind] is stagnating from too much TV.
4. to be or become sluggish and dull:
When the [leading lady] left, the show started to stagnate.
–verb (used with object)
5. to make stagnant.
—Related forms
stagnation, noun stagnatory, adjective 
Major studios, buttressed by solid summer B.O. and synergies with growth sectors like consumer products and cable TV,
have withstood the economic malaise.
But the far smaller specialty players are more vulnerable to the combined effect of declining grosses, stagnation in DVD and the rise of local product in many foreign territories.
synergies
【醫】(肌肉或神經的) 協同作用
buttress
【建】拱壁,扶壁,支撐物
。困境停滯
quandary
mental
The film charts the course of Felicie's [emotional] quandary with Rohmer's customary detachment,
plight
seldom used, peril, except laughingly
When his [suit] wasn't ready at the cleaners, he was in a terrible plight.
predicament
seldom used, crucial
Rohmer's visuals have never been more poignant than in this film, which brings Felicie's predicament into [clinical] focus,
stalemate
But Polanski's French lawyer Herve Temime says, "There has been no change in strategy at all," which suggests he'll make the extradition process go all the way. Stalemate.
quagmire
slough
bog
We were bogged [down] by overwork.
Godard, it was said, had lost the light touch of his first film and gotten bogged [down] in politics.
It's time for a move, Lucian. Terry, Allen's 1 st Division is bogged down. You're bogged down too.
marsh
Here I am in these bloody marshes, fighting malaria and Germans... while he's taking Palermo and getting all the glory.
moor
Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated [causeway], the story has as its hero one Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House.
heath
molasses
morass
trying to survive but instead sinking deeper and [deeper] into the [morass] of poverty.
I'm afraid your three chapters form a raving morass that reeks of plagiarism.
puddle
The [children] were puddling.
the [splash] of her shoes in a [sun]-flashing puddle
he is struck by a bolt of lightning that should have turned him into a [steaming] puddle,
A real man is brought home, killed with a hammer and left on the floor in a [puddle] of his blood [to] much amusement around the room.
After they go to the hospital, I change the sheets. I find a puddle of urine.
sludge
Watching "The Mother and the Whore," you find that you're back in the movie-[sludge] of the nineteen-fifties,
sludgy
Following three albums, the Stooges disbanded, but the group's legacy grew over the next two decades, as [legions] of underground bands used their sludgy [grind] as a foundation for a variety of indie rock styles, and as Iggy Pop became a pop culture icon.
dredge
The hero Buscemi played in "Trees Lounge" had even more desperate problems than Jim, but he at least dredged [from] his alcoholism the desire to survive.
shoal
... deadly shoals and all the perils of the deep.
loch
he comes down from the mountain, over the loch and through the heather.
bunker
stymie
they're just stymied by the [circum]stances of the film.
impedimenta
Leave the impedimentaat the side of the road.
cumbersome
onerous
onerous [duties]
His own salary and onerous long-term [contract] with Selznick International
encumber
He was hailed as a visionary, fetishized by his fans, encumbered by [expectations].
stagnation
My [mind] is stagnating from too much TV.
When the [leading lady] left, the show started to stagnate.
stagnant
The story is set in the small, [economically] stagnant town of Bailleul in northern France.
grid
Four years later, surrounded by tokens of a former life, including a mobile of the planets, Rhoda [lingers] in her childhood room surrounded by grid [wallpaper], a reminder of her formerly orderly life and perhaps too a nod to SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
gridlock
[Traffic] has gridlocked.
impasse
This impasse leaves the gray old men of the Resistance in a [perpetual] state of ineffective [squabbling]
doldrums
a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art
[August] is a time of doldrums for many enterprises.
"Kicking and Screaming" also sends Otis and Skippy through minor postgrad [doldrums].
Kimberly Peirce [paints] an unforgettable portrait of small-town [doldrums] and gender identity crisis, using the [harrowing] tale of Teena Brandon,
clog
I unclogged your drain. The water's drain is good now.
hence the need to get their lenses dirty on its [clogged] streets.
cask
spigot
The latter part of "From Dusk Till Dawn" is so relentless that it's as if a spigot has been [turned] on and then broken.
There is a [confidence] in the working class that is as matter-of-fact and severe as the long rows of workers' brick houses and the bank of [beer] spigots in the pub.
occlude
close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening)
with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the upper and lower jaws fitting together
Meaning is [elided], [occluded], or embedded in texture and ambience.
sluice
We'll let the water out. Rupert, go to the north sluice.
silt
Your brain's silting, Charles. 泥沙,淤泥
。小呼吸
。停止居留
。前進
Smolder
。阻撓
。監禁
Ensconce
Stagnation
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