Fresh foods and leftovers languish on crowded shelves and eventually go bad.

新鲜的食物和剩饭在拥挤的架子上减减变质，最后变坏。

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I'm confounded how to explain to my two children why a wealthy society allows its most vulnerable citizens to languish on the streets.

我不知该怎么向家里两个孩子解释，一个富裕的社会为何容许那些最为脆弱的公民在街头凋零。

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You can't get any of the plum assignments, as they just languish on his desk unassigned, and when your check is late three weeks, he can't intervene to help you get paid.

你不能梅花转让的任何，因为他们只是他的书桌上未分配的煎熬，当您的支票晚三个星期，他不能干预，以帮助您得到报酬。

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Marriage legislation has been introduced in the state for nearly two decades, only to languish on the legislative agenda.

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Because the less academically inclined can too easily fall into low paid, unskilled jobs- or languish on the dole queue - vocational training would be revamped.

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Most passengers languish on deck as the Tucker T cuts through the sheltered sea of the Bay, keeping their eyes peeled for the dolphins and penguins that occasionally surface alongside like bobbing corks.

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