Japanese stocks fell Wednesday, a day after the central bank approved a new lending program to boost the country's stagnant economy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

It's...the economy is...stagnant.

尽管经济确实不景气。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

the different states want corporations to register and therefore the rules are such that they protect the corporation with the poison pills I can't get into all these different things - -stagnant boards, poison pills- and I think if you just change some of that we could be like, for instance, England is much better.

每个州都想让自己的企业注册,所以现在的规则就是,各州都用毒药丸保护企业,我不能干涉所有的这些东西,-没有进步的管理层，毒药丸-,如果你愿意改变其中一些方面的话,我们就会像，例如，英国企业的情况比美国好多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The national budget has not been passed, the economy is stagnant, and development is at a standstill in one of the world's poorest nations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"China has very impressive energy demand growth going forward. The United States has stagnant growth.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Jeff Kingston, Asia studies professor at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, says many voters blamed the defeated Liberal Democratic Party for the nation's stagnant growth.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The number of visits from Western European countries is expected to remain stagnant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The fact there is no clear-cut front-runner, as is the norm in more stagnant, authoritarian states nearby, has led many voters to seize their chance to make a difference.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29