limbo

1 As ubiquitous as pot is in some places, as a nation, we’re very much in limbo.

2 “Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world — gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.”

3 It’s all set in an echoey limbo that bodes nothing good.

4 He’s whatever lies between the two and we sympathize because so many of us have occupied that peculiar limbo ourselves.

5 Rendered in English, Spanish, sign language and gobbledygook, the dialogue and lyrics of “Runaways” are the universal vernacular of people trapped in that most painful of limbos, the period between childhood and adulthood.

6 We spent the rest of the day in limbo, waiting, not knowing, pacing around the hospital, family members stopping by.

7 Give me your losers and laggards, your pokey puppies who limbo right under rock-bottom expectations and then have to go home and lie down.

8 Mr. Petty sued Shelter’s new parent label, MCA, and declared bankruptcy, ending up in a legal limbo that delayed his next album until a new deal was reached.

9 With her husband presumably dead but with no corpse in the graveyard, Fahrije is stuck in a cruel limbo, an uncertain status shared by others in the collective.

10 “The next half of my year,” Mr. Dirks said, “is floating somewhere in limbo.”

11 In fact, legal limbo is not an either-or condition; there are degrees of statelessness.

事实上，法律的“遗忘”(legallimbo)并不是一个非此即彼的状态；存在着不同程度的无国籍状态。

12 Instead, it has joined the growing ranks of paintings in provenance limbo.

13 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。

14 Yet limbo is a defining condition of forced migration.

15 Their future remains in limbo after President Trump moved to end the program.

16 Many colored people lived in this limbo, a true purgatory, always yearning for the white fathers who disowned them, and they could be horribly racist to one another as a result.

17 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。

18 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。

19 These days, however, I suspect that Millar’s novels —despite being reprinted in the Library of America — have fallen into literary limbo, remembered but not much read.

20 The obstacle to true love is built into the title of this romcom, but it's at least smartly handled, as high-flyer Blunt keeps her fiance in perpetual limbo.

1 地狱的边境

limbus

2 被忽略的状态

neglect

3 拘禁

impound intern detn. confine detention detainer durance detain under arrest

4 束缚

band tie bond constraint restraint cramp hamper leash captivity yoke shackle bondage bridle duress hobble noose thrall fetter stranglehold manacle trammel hamshackle enfetter chain bind hedge restrain constrain imprison tether halter swaddle enchain entrammel astrict tie by the leg bind down hold in leash

5 忘却

oblivescence obliviscence silence oblivion forgetfulness obliteration erase drown banish obliterate unlearn lose track of

6 监狱

quod bastille stir calaboose can bird prison PEN jail cooler jug Nick penitentiary coop roundhouse jailhouse stockade bridewell choky bagnio toll-booth hoosgow keep hold college hospital joint pen dump mill freezer slam choke grate boob nick porridge mush brig clink fishbowl slammer icebox pokey clinker tollbooth pogey poogie His Majesty's hotel

7 拘留所

lock pound prison drum jail cooler choke lockup roundhouse clink tollbooth guardhouse bridewell choky beanery calaboose

8 监牢

can keep hold college pound cage jug hock stockade quod