limbo

名词 limbo:

1. the state of being disregarded or forgotten
   同义词：oblivion
2. an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
3. (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

1. By not specifying today which of the21 plants would be closed, Mr.Stempel put the lives of thousands of workers in limbo.
   由于斯坦普尔先生今天未指明在21个厂中关闭哪一个，使得数千工人的生活没有着落。
2. Management kept her promotion in limbo for months.
   有好几个月领导将她的升迁之事放置一边
3. I'm in limbo, waiting to know if I've got the job or not.
   我心神不定，等着知道是否已得到了那份工作。

limbo

n.（名词）
【复数】 lim.bos
Often Limbo Theology The abode of just or innocent souls excluded from the beatific vision but not condemned to further punishment.
常作 Limbo 【神学】 地狱的边境：不能进入天堂的正直或无辜的灵魂所在地，他们不会受到进一步的惩罚
A region or condition of oblivion or neglect:
遗忘，忘却：遗忘或忽视的区域或状况：
例句：
Management kept her promotion in limbo for months.
有好几个月领导将她的升迁之事放置一边

A state or place of confinement.
监狱：监禁的状态或地方
An intermediate place or state.
中间过渡地带，不安定的状态

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Medieval Latin (in) limbô [(in) Limbo] [ablative of] limbus [Limbo]
源自 中世纪拉丁语 (in) limbô [（在）地狱的边境] [] limbus的夺格 [地狱的边境]
from Latin [border]
源自 拉丁语 [边境]

<注释>Our use of the wordlimbo to refer to states of oblivion, confinement, or transition is derived from the theological sense ofLimbo as a place where souls remain that cannot enter heaven, for example, unbaptized infants.Limbo in Roman Catholic theology is located on the border of Hell, which explains the name chosen for it.The Latin wordlimbus, having meanings such as .an ornamental border to a fringe. and .a band or girdle,. was chosen by Christian theologians of the Middle Ages to denote this border region.English borrowed the wordlimbus directly, but the formlimbo that caught on in English, first recorded in a work composed around 378,is from the ablative form oflimbus, the form that would be used in expressions such asin limbô, .in Limbo..
我们用limbo 这个词指被忘却、监禁或过渡的状态， 此用法源于Limbo 的神学含义， 指那些不能升入天堂的灵魂（如未受洗的儿童）所在地。Limbo 在罗马天主教的教义中指位于地狱的边境， 这也是为什么选这个词指地狱的边境的原因。拉丁词limbus 有诸如.流苏或穗状的装饰性花边.和.嵌条或腰带.的意思， 中世纪的基督教神学家选用这个词来指这种边界地区。英语直接借用了limbus 这个词， 但出现于英语中的limbo 这种形式， 首次记载于378年左右完成的作品中，它源自limbus 的夺格形式， 这种用法是在短语in limbo 中出现的，意思是.在地狱的边界地区.

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n.（名词）
【复数】 lim.bos
A West Indian dance in which the dancers keep bending over backward and passing under a pole that is lowered slightly each time.
林波舞：一种西印度群岛的舞蹈，舞者须向后仰并穿过一支水平杆，每次都要比前一次仰得更低

来源：
[Probably ultimately of African origin]
[可能源于非洲的]