Doldrums

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(赤道) 無風帶



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–noun (used with a plural verb) 

1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art: August is a time of doldrums for many enterprises. 

2. the doldrums, 

a. a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

b. the weather prevailing in this area. 

3. a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits.





　

With the cozy inertia essential to pretty-young-thing ensemble comedies, "Kicking and Screaming" also sends Otis (Carlos Jacott) and Skippy (Jason Wiles) through minor postgrad doldrums. Particularly funny is a running subplot about Otis's trying to get work at a video store that takes itself very, very seriously. ("What are your influences?" the applicant is asked.) 





gridlock

[Traffic] has gridlocked.

impasse

This impasse leaves the gray old men of the Resistance in a [perpetual] state of ineffective [squabbling]

Stagnation