The ship floundered in the South Atlantic, 1300 miles from the Cape.

他们的船在南大西洋，距好望角1300英里处沉没了。

Like Plato, he saw the public as a great beast or a bewildered herd, floundering in the 'chaos of local opinions'.

跟柏拉图一样，他认为大众是野兽或者是迷路的羊群，在“局部意见的混乱”里苦苦挣扎。

The florist floundered in the flood, and caugt the flu in the could water.

卖花者在洪水中争扎。在冰冷的水中，他得了流行性感冒。

If a friendship flounders In 2016 as Hasbella, an Iranian-backed militia gained ground in Lebanese politics, Saudi Arabia signaled.

如果友谊陷入困境 2016 年，伊朗支持的民兵哈斯贝拉在黎巴嫩政治中取得了进展， 沙特阿拉伯发出信号。

To prevent readers from floundering in Chinese names, I have eliminated those of the less important persons, or sometimes indicated only their family names.

为免读者陷入中国人名复杂之苦恼，我已尽量淘汰不重要人物的名字，有时只用姓而略其名。

Some days I really feel like I succeed at it and I'm like smashing it. And then, other days, I feel like I'm utterly failing and floundering in it.

有时我真的感觉我成功做到了，轻而易举。而有时，我感觉我彻底失败了，在艰难挣扎。

Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted.

他不肯轻轻松松的跟在雪橇后面沿着橇辙不声不响的跑。他在柔软的雪上跑个不停, 尽管非常的吃力, 直至跑到精疲力尽。

Your man may be floundering in a swamp, and by all means throw him a rope if he is … but there's no need to knock him unconscious with ninety feet of steel cable.

你的读者也许在沼泽里挣扎，甭管怎么说扔给他一根绳索… … 但绝对没必要拿根九十英尺的钢索把他迎头打晕。

As proof of " criminal negligence" in the past, this suggestion seemed decisive, but Russell, by this time, was floundering in other troubles of negligence, for he had neglected to notify the American Minister.

作为过去“刑事过失” 的证据，这个建议似乎是决定性的， 但罗素此时正陷入其他疏忽的麻烦之中， 因为他没有通知美国部长。

" I can't understand why the authorities tolerate such culpable industries. Such unfortunates should be locked up and forced to work. Progress, my word! creeps at a snail's pace. We are floundering about in mere barbarism" .

" 我真不懂，当局怎么还能容忍干这种犯罪的行业！ 应当把这些该死的东西关起来，强迫他们劳动才对！ 说老实话，我们进步得太慢了，简直是蜗牛爬！ 我们还生活在野蛮时代呢！"

He was floundering in the dark. His denials that he had ever met or had sex with Virginia Giuffre, formerly Roberts, who states that she was coerced into sex with him when she was 17, were met with ridicule.

他否认自己曾与弗吉尼亚·吉弗(前罗伯茨)见过面或发生过性关系，后者声称她在17岁时被强迫与他发生性关系，这遭到了嘲笑。

Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the sea.

八点前，一个穿着蓝色浴袍的男人来到海滩， 他先用冰冷的水冲了他一身， 然后大口大口地喘着粗气， 在海里挣扎了一会儿。