tottery如何读

英:['tɒtərɪ]

美:['tɒtərɪ]

tottery是什么意思

  • adj.蹒跚的;摇摇欲倒

tottery英英释义

Adjective

1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age;

"a tottering skeleton of a horse"

"a tottery old man"

tottery词源中文解释

"颤抖的,不稳定的",1861年,来自 totter + -y(2)。

tottery词源英文解释

The first known use of tottery was circa 1755

tottery 例句

1 His steps at first were very tottery, and he had need of support, but once we reached level ground he walked steadily.

2 "I'm just a little tottery still," she muttered.

3 Help me to be quick, Ursie dear, for I feel so queer and tottery.'

4 The toiling grim figure in black had seemed so feeble and so tottery and old.

5 The second took Mr. Laird home, a little tottery on his legs, and Laird sent back a note in his own hand declining to fight a duel with me on any terms whatever.

6 You mustn't even mind being a little tottery upon your legs at first.

7 His walk was actually tottery as he came down the port side of the cabin. 

8 He was an Indian, and very old, and he walked with that bent, tottery walk of old age.

9 Through a barred window the wondering warden sourly watched the crawling, tottery figure.

10 He tried to stand, but found he was too tottery on his legs.

11 with a tottery gait the frail, elderly woman slowly climbed the steps of the church

12 "We might take a little spin in a machine," he finished with a tottery tone of indifference.

13 A few minutes later, weak and rather tottery, he managed to reach Mr. Damon, whom he first unbound.

14 This, I managed, at the second attempt; but I was very tottery, and peculiarly weak.

15 Mary had engaged to guide her friend's tottery steps on the slippery path of Melbourne society, did Mr. Devine enter the ministry.

16 What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me.

17 For the Baron's gait was somewhat tottery and uncertain, and he even toppled over altogether pretty frequently, but got up upon his feet immediately, after the manner of a jack-in-the-box.

18 Cash was tottery weak from his own illness, and he could not speak above a whisper.

19 You may walk with those tottery legs of yours, but you certainly cannot run.

20 Here the reckless hero frolicked about on his little tottery legs.

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