wallowing

英 [ˈwɒləʊɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɑːloʊɪŋ]

v.  (为保持凉爽或嬉戏在烂泥、水里)打滚，翻滚; 沉湎; 放纵
wallow的现在分词

复数：wallowings　现在分词：wallowing　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉溺（于不快的境况）
  If you say that someoneis wallowing inan unpleasant situation, you are criticizing them for being deliberately unhappy.
  1. His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity...
     他疲惫的心继续沉溺于自哀自怜之中。
  2. I wanted only to wallow in my own grief.
     我只想沉湎于自己的悲伤中。
• VERB (在水或泥浆中)躺卧，打滚
  If a person or animalwallows inwater or mud, they lie or roll about in it slowly for pleasure.
  1. Never have I had such a good excuse for wallowing in deep warm baths...
     我从来没找到过如此好的理由，可以美美地泡个热水澡。
  2. Dogs love splashing in mud and hippos wallow in it.
     狗喜欢在泥水洼里扑腾，河马则喜欢在其中打滚撒欢儿。

双语例句

• Please stop floundering about and think of something to do. And again we were wallowing in the swell.
  你别到处晃来晃去的，想点儿事做。而我们又在摇摆颠簸中晃来晃去。
• The already heavily burdened foot soldier also had to help push and pull vehicles and horses wallowing in the muck.
  已经负重不堪的徒步士兵还不得不帮助推拉那些陷入泥坑的车辆和马匹。
• Lord, you've found us hiding away from you, wallowing in self-pity.
  主啊，祢发现我们在自怨自艾，躲避不敢见祢。
• Wallowing in his passions, he had found himself in a net which kept drawing tighter about him.
  沉迷在七情六欲中，他发现自己陷在一张越收越紧的罗网中。
• The pigs were wallowing in the dirt as usual.
  这些猪像往常一样正在泥淖中打滚。
• The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing ( about) in the mud.
  孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
• I wish she'd do something to help herself instead of just wallowing in self-pity!
  我希望她能做点自助自救的工作，而不要只沉湎于自哀自怜中。
• He was wallowing in mortification.
  他却尽在羞愧的圈子里打滚。
• Instead he lay there wallowing now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up onto him.
  它反而躺在海面上翻滚着，老人只得把小船驶到它的身边。
• It is no longer the Dark Continent in continual economic free fall, wallowing in debt, poverty and disease.
  它也不再是经济像自由落体那样下滑的黑暗大陆，不再沉溺于债务、贫穷和疾病。