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单词 marooned
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marooned

(məruːnd)
adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you say that you are marooned, you mean that you feel alone and helpless and you cannot escape from the place or situation you are in.
...families marooned in decaying inner-city areas.
...temporarily marooned at home by my injured knee.

marooned in British English

(məˈruːnd)
adjective
1. 
left ashore and abandoned, esp on an island
Ben Gunn, the mad marooned sailor
2. 
isolated without resources
dropping food from helicopters to marooned villagers
He spent twenty-four hours marooned in the cab of his vehicle.
families marooned in decaying inner-city areas
I was temporarily marooned at home by my injured knee.

Examples of 'marooned' in a sentence
marooned

She was going to be marooned on an island alone where he would not be able to reach her or give comfort.
Sara MacDonald SEA MUSIC (2003)
The computer on the desk was an island of straight lines marooned in a zigzag sea of paper.
Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2003)
He started on a long story about a `shack" hotel in Austria where he'd been marooned in a shaft for eight hours.
Curzon, Clare THE QUEST FOR K (2003)
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