英:[ˈtɒtə(r)]
美:[ˈtɑtə(r)]
英:[ˈtɒtə(r)]
美:[ˈtɑtə(r)]
tot·ter
ta tr
第三人称单数:totters
现在分词:tottering
过去式:tottered
过去分词:tottered
词根:totter
adj.tottering 蹒跚的;动摇的
tottery 摇摇欲坠的;蹒跚的
v.tottering 蹒跚(totter的ing形式)
intransitive verb
to sway or falter as if about to fall or collapse.The old man tottered and obviously needed help.The poor little dog tottered for a moment and then fell to the ground.
to be unsteady or unstable.The company is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy.
noun
an unsteady movement or manner.
约1200年,意为“来回摇摆”,起源不明,可能来自斯堪的纳维亚语(比较方言挪威语 totra “颤抖,摇晃”)。意为“站立或走路时踉跄不稳”始于约1600年。相关词汇: Tottered; tottering。
踉跄步
Verb Middle English toteren
The first known use of totter was in the 15th century
touch1 of 2verb
to feel or handle (as with fingers) especially so as to be aware of by the sense of touch
to be or cause to be in contact with something
to be or come next to
to hit lightly
to do harm to
to make use of
never touches meat
to refer to in passing : mention
the report touched upon many important points
to affect the interest of
a matter that touches every parent
to move emotionally
touched by their friend's kindness
touch2 of 2noun
a light stroke or tap
the act or fact of touching or being touched
the special sense by which one is aware of light pressure especially on the skin
soft to the touch
an impression gotten through the sense of touch
the soft touch of silk
a state of contact or communication
keeping in touch with friends
a small amount : trace
a touch of garlic in the salad
totterverb
to sway or rock as if about to fall
to move unsteadily : stagger
1 The old woman had tottered out of the house, weeping and screaming.
2 Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own.
3 The drunk man tottered over to our table.
这个醉鬼摇摇晃晃向我们的餐桌走来.
4 Belet slid across the floor and clasped the tub as it tottered on the ledge.
5 It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
当她用舌头舔它时他还在摇晃.
6 She totters over to the bed, touches the comb, then pulls it from Charlotte's hair and squeezes it.
7 “Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches.
8 They tottered over the pasture to the woodland beyond and lay completely exhausted on flat, bare ground under fir trees.
9 Albert tottered and fell overpowered in a chair.
阿尔贝脚步踉跄,四肢无力地跌落在一张椅子里.
10 With that overturned the clan authoritythe authority the authority of the husband all begin to totter.
地主政权既被打翻,族权、神权、夫权便一概跟着动摇起来.
11 The first was that England was “tottering to her fall,” that her economy was collapsing and “she must soon be a bankrupt and unable to maintain her naval superiority.”
12 The guardsmen blew their horns, and the caravan tottered on into a loose marching formation.
13 These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria....
14 Now,” he removed a tottering pile of papers from an armchair and sat down, his Wellingtoned legs crossed, “how may I help you, Mr. Potter?”
15 She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her, but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground.
16 The property market is tottering.
房地产市场摇摇欲坠。
17 On a recent morning, a woman watched a group of toddlers crawling and tottering across the shelter’s rooftop terrace as laundry fluttered in the wind behind them.
18 Tu Weiyueh smiled grimly, feeling that his " regime " really was tottering this time.
屠维岳又笑了一笑, 感到自己的 “ 政权 ” 这次是当真在动摇了.
19 The woman onstage has tottered on stilts fashioned from empty cans of Slim-Fast.
20 Afterward, she tottered on his arm, rising faintly over his line of vision, in a pair of suede three-inch leopard-print pumps.
1 趔趔趄趄地走
2 摇幌
3 踉跄
reel stagger flounder shamble dacker falter waver welter wamble stumblingly stumble flail bumble lurch teeter
5 摇动
crazy rocky shaky rickety agitation wag jounce play quake flicker tremble vacillate dodder waggle rock worry WAVE stir sway jig oscillate give a shake rocking vacillating shake swing shake-up move toss reel vibrate judder wimple wigwag jar flourish topple agitate frisk
7 摇晃
rocky staggering shaky Wobbly rickety tippy wavering jiggly rackety waggly staggery wibbly-wobbly roll shake rolling quake stagger wobble swag jolt waver teeter jiggle rockiness wintle play swing toss weave reel jelly tremble falter heave welter wave wangle
8 摇摆
shaky rocking wobbly pendulous wavery jiggly waggly asway awag waveringly rock roll shake rolling sway stagger wag wamble swing tremble dangle vacillate dodder nod tittuppy rocky wavy swinging waver vacillating tittup reel vacillation wabble hang wave toss welter wiggle topple teeter
9 跌跌撞撞
10 摇摇欲坠
rickety groggy ramshackle dickey tumbledown topple off balance tottery topple down teeter decaying creaky tottering impending tumble-down precarious unsound
11 不安
nervous uncomfortable anxious rocky troubled insecure restless uneasy disturbed apprehensive queasy twitchy harassed unquiet suspensive suspensively uncomfortably uneasily apprehensively alarmedly fear sweat discomfort disturbance fret dread unrest suspense dismay agitation angst qualm malaise unease misgiving perturbation uneasiness distemper disquiet solicitude discomposure inquietude unanchor disturb rattle psych fidget discompose get under skin with bated breath anxious seat
12 动摇
tittuppy rocky tumultuous disturbed wayward unsteady seesaw oscillatory asway waveringly rock roll shake sway fluctuation wobble ruffle oscillation shakiness vacillation disquietude inquietude move reel fluctuate waver teeter dither stagger destabilize unfix unstable shaky wavy wobbly unsettled shaken unfixed unquiet irresolute instable to-and-fro tottery lubricous transigent labefaction movement motion trepidation perturbation lubricity welter wabble chop vibrate oscillate unsettle budge unhinge whiffle
13 蹒跚
staggering rickety doddery doddered staggery reel stagger falter waver lurch waddle shamble hirple titubation teeter hobble stot tipsy faltering doddering tottery wabbly bedrid waddlingly totteringly stoiter tipsiness titubate dodder stram gone at the knees limp toddle founder flounder halting drunkenly haltingly swag drone stumble joggle wabble halt reelingly roll hitch oscillation rock oscillate
14 濒临崩溃
16 使蹒跚