Both Uses of
doldrums
in
Unbroken - adapted for young adults
- They had found the doldrums, the eerie pause of wind and water that lingers around the equator.†
p. 129.4
- A memory suddenly came to Louie: he and Phil, starving on the raft, drifting into the doldrums, a seascape so overpoweringly beautiful that Louie had forgotten his thirst and hunger, forgotten even that he was dying, and felt only gratitude.†
p. 268.1 *
Definition:
a state of listlessness or inactivity
or:
a belt of calm seas and light winds near the equator
or:
a belt of calm seas and light winds near the equator