limbo
limbo 英 [ˈlɪmbəʊ] 美 [ˈlɪmboʊ]
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
名词复数:limbos
- No, this isn’t the dance where you try to squeeze under a pole by leaning backwards, this limbo refers to an imaginary place for lost or forgotten things. It’s where your socks go when you lose them in the dryer.
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- 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
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1. So anyway, I’m still in Career limbo. How are you?
所以，无论如何，我仍然是在徘徊在事业的边缘，你呢？
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2. We have not been contacted by the authorities yet. We are in limbo.
他说，有关部门尚未接洽过公司，我们目前被夹在了中间。
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3. Find out how to interact with the locals without dooming them to limbo.
找找怎样才能和当地人交往而不把他们推到地狱边境的方法吧。
- 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 singular of limbus "edge, border" (see limb (n.2)). In frequent use in Latin phrases such as in limbo (patrum), which is entirely Latin, but the in was taken as English and hence the Latin ablative became the English noun. Figurative sense of "condition of neglect or oblivion, place of confinement" is from 1640s.
- limbo (n.2) dance in which the dancer bends backward and passes under a bar, 1956, of West Indian origin, probably an alteration of limber (adj.).
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