limbo

lim·bo /ˈlɪmbəʊ $ -boʊ/ noun

1 UNCERTAIN[singular, uncountableU] a situation in which nothing happens or changes for a long period of time, and it is difficult to make decisions or know what to do, often because you are waiting for something else to happen first 〔常指因等待另一事先发生而所处的〕不确定的状态

be in limbo

I’m in limbo now until I know whether I’ve got the job.

我现在心中没有着落，要一直到知道自己是否得到那份工作为止。

limbo of

the limbo of his eight years in jail

他这八年停的牢狱生活

2. the limbo APDa West Indian dance in which the dancer leans backwards and goes under a stick that is lowered gradually 林波舞〔一种西印度群岛舞蹈，舞者向后弯腰通过逐步降低的横杆〕

Examples from the Corpus

limbo• Do they wander for ever in limbo?• Goulding's move leaves Wigan's £75,000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away.• They - and the enterprises concerned - are now in limbo.• Cops and gangsters alike prefer to see pachinko remain uneasily in limbo.• I felt as if I was in limbo.• Petey and Carol and Lois would be sent into limbo for a little scare.• Toward the same limbo where the Galactic Empire was heading.• Well, how else are we ever going to get out of this limbo?

be in limbo• So these three counties are in Limbo.• The firefighters' fate was in limbo after San Francisco assumed control of the island this month.• I felt as if I was in limbo.• Three months later the picture is in limbo, believed still to be in Sotheby's storage.• $900 million worth of grain sales is in limbo while the two countries negotiate a new trade deal.

From Longman Business Dictionary

limbolim·bo /ˈlɪmbəʊ-boʊ/ noun

be in limbo to be in an uncertain situation in which it is not clear what will happen next

Investors in the shares have been left in limbo since the market tailed off.

Origin limbo

1. (1300-1400) Medieval Latin Latin limbus “border”

2. (1900-2000) LIMBER2

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