| 单词 | limbo |
| 释义 | limbo (once / 3785 pages) 1n 2n 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. Limbo is originally a Roman Catholic term used to describe a place for infants who die before baptism. In common speech limbo can be used in much the same way as “gray area.” It’s a place where nothing is clear or certain. When the law isn’t clear on a specific issue, then that issue is in “legal limbo.” If there is an election that is so close that no one knows who won, that’s “political limbo.” WORD FAMILYlimbo: limbos USAGE EXAMPLESGoff was down there, somewhere, sacked by giants, handcuffed by his coaches, left lying in the limbo of a lost autumn. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Like the Fontainebleau, however, Emerald River is still in limbo. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) How to describe the need sometimes to belong, the wish for a counterweight to life in limbo? The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) 2Hyper fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings 1n the state of being disregarded or forgotten Syn|Hyper oblivion obscurity an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known 2n an imaginary place for lost or neglected things Hyper fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings |
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