doldrums的意思|doldrums的解释-里氏词典

doldrums ['dɑldrəmz]

n. 忧郁, 赤道无风带

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.
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.
My brother has been in the doldrums since he failed to get on the swimming team.
我兄弟自打没能进入游泳队以来一直精神萎靡不振。

doldrums

[ noun ]

a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

<noun.state>

economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation

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

<noun.phenomenon>

doldrums \dol"drums\ (d[o^]l"dr[u^]mz), n. pl. [Cf. Gael.
doltrum grief, vexation?]
A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms,
squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent
all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

{To be in the doldrums}, to be in a state of listlessness
ennui, or tedium.

The hitch is if Graseby is forced to delay flotation of its US businesses because the environmental sector remains in the doldrums - it has underperformed by 20 per cent in the past six months.
The summer doldrums began to set in last week as the network schedules filled with reruns.
The yen lost ground against most other units amid a lack of news, especially about any Japanese interest-rate rise, which the market still deems necessary for the yen to recover from its doldrums.
"I think we've entered the summer doldrums early," he said, referring to Wall Street's summer slowdown that usually starts in early July.
Perhaps reflecting Wall Street's rebound in profits this year, compared with 1990's doldrums, most of the brokers surveyed were relatively kind to their bosses; no firm was rated lower than a B-plus overall.
The stock market drifted aimlessly in quiet trading Wednesday, still seemingly in the "summer doldrums" with autumn about to arrive.
Still, Biehl says the takeover frenzy is reviving excitement in the stock market after several months in the doldrums.
Representatives of the U.S. futures exchanges hope the liberalizing of net position limits will further rejuvenate the agricultural commodity markets, which are beginning to emerge from this decade's doldrums.
Then the property market sailed into the doldrums - and we have been in recession ever since. In a bubbly market, no property has more froth than a marina home, but prices have gone flat and boats, like houses, have sunk in value.
But they foresee no relief for the automobile industry, a third sector in the economic doldrums.
Samuel Kahan, senior vice president and chief financial economist at Kleinwort Benson Government Securities Inc., contends that the economy will remain in the doldrums in coming months and that interest rates will decline.
After four years in the doldrums, small company shares finally delivered in 1993.
Farm payments ballooned to more than $26 billion in 1986 but currently are costing taxpayers less than half of that as the farm economy continues to rebound from its doldrums of the early and mid-1980s.
The stock market is stalled short of the 1987 all-time high of 2,722.42 on the Dow Jones industrials by the doldrums in the bond market, said Lincoln Anderson, a Bear, Stearns & Co. economist.
By firing people in March or April and replacing them in the fall, firms avoid paying individuals they don't need during the summer doldrums, when tax and audit work falls off sharply.
The Easter weekend box office take was also a spring bonanza for studios suffering through the winter moviegoing doldrums. "Beetlejuice" rung in more than $8 million for the No. 1 position.
Municipal Securities Municipal bond prices perked up after the doldrums of recent weeks and wrapped up the calm session with gains of 1/4 to 1 1/2 points.
The challenges have been increased by slower growth in western Europe, now weathering a period of economic doldrums comparable only with the 1981-82 recession.
Traders and analysts could not pinpoint anything that later pushed prices down, other than the market's apparent case of the doldrums.
Roger B. Smith, council chairman and chairman of General Motors Corp., indicated his belief the automobile industry was reviving from the economic doldrums of the past year.
Mr. Greenspan repeated before the House Budget Committee that the Fed's easing actions to date should be sufficient to lift the economy out of its doldrums.
Asarco had won givebacks from its workers several years ago when the copper industry was in the doldrums.
The manufacturing sector is still in the doldrums," said Michael K. Evans, who heads a Washington economic forecasting company.
"The industry has been in the doldrums all year," said Mr. Kully.
But his immediate test is to rescue the party from its current doldrums.
"Unless there is a major change in the economy, such as reduced interest rates, domestic new cars sales appear to remain in their current doldrums." Following recent patterns, the drop in car sales was steeper than that for van and light trucks.
Heavenly Valley Ski Resort in California likewise hopes to bring in Japanese skiers to solve its midweek doldrums.
Farm program spending has dropped sharply over the last year as exports expanded and the farm economy shook off the doldrums of the early 1980s.
But the industry is hardly out of the doldrums yet.
And the Treasury's $17.6 billion auction of short-term bills, which generated strong buying interest, helped to lift the bond market out of the doldrums.

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