Word · Frequency #23917
stasis
停滞;静止
inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
指因对立力量平衡而出现的不活动状态,常用于社会、政治或文化语境。
- 1.
A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
血液流动减缓或停滞,因毛细血管壁异常阻力所致
- 2.
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
静止;停滞状态
- 3.
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
使物体人工冻结时间的技术,使其不老化或变化
- 4.
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
圣诗篇中的一个章节
淤滞;郁滞;血液流动减缓或停滞,因毛细血管壁异常阻力所致;静止;停滞状态;使物体人工冻结时间的技术,使其不老化或变化;圣诗篇中的一个章节
In use
After months of negotiations, the two parties reached a stasis, with neither side willing to compromise.
The company's growth has been in stasis for years because the market is saturated and no new ideas emerge.
When the forces for change and the forces for tradition are equal, a society may remain in stasis for generations.
stasis in [something]
stasis 表示液体(如血液)流动缓慢或停止的异常状态,常与 in 连用指具体部位。
Doctors found stasis in the patient's bloodstream.
医生发现患者的血液中有淤滞。
be in stasis
in stasis 是固定搭配,表示处于静止或停滞状态,常用于抽象事物。
The peace talks have been in stasis for months.
和平谈判已停滞数月。
a period of stasis
Connections
Collocations
- blood stasis
- 血液淤滞
- Blood stasis can slow the healing of a wound.血液淤滞会减慢伤口愈合。
- political stasis
- 政治停滞
- Years of political stasis prevented any real reform.多年的政治停滞阻碍了真正的改革。
- in stasis
- 处于停滞状态
- The economy has been in stasis for almost a decade.近十年来,经济一直处于停滞状态。
Synonyms
- stagnation
- 停滞;不发展 · 强调缺乏发展或增长,常用于经济或社会局面,略带负面;与 stasis 相比更突出“停滞不前”。
- standstill
- 停顿;停止 · 指运动或进程完全中断,常为暂时或突然;stasis 更偏长期状态,无此临时性。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆联想:stasis 像“stay(停留)-sis(状态)”,血液或局势“停住不走”,所以是停滞、郁滞。
Context & Register
语域:formal 常见场景:医学报告、学术论文 该词比较常见于医学和学术书面语,口语中通常较少使用;表达“停滞”时口语更常说 stagnation。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 stasis 真正押韵的是 basis(均读 /-eɪsɪs/)。thesis、crisis、analysis、synthesis、paralysis 虽以 -sis 结尾,但读音为 /-əsɪs/ 或 /-ɪsɪs/,并不押韵,不要被拼写误导。Stasis 也容易与 status /ˈsteɪtəs/、static /ˈstætɪk/ 混淆,但它们拼写和读音都不同。
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