英:['tɒtərɪŋ]
美:['tɒtərɪŋ]
英:['tɒtərɪŋ]
美:['tɒtərɪŋ]
adj.
蹒跚的,动摇的
v.
走得或动得不稳( totter的现在分词 )
踉跄
蹒跚
摇摇欲坠
词根:totter
adj.tottery 摇摇欲坠的;蹒跚的
n.totter 蹒跚的步子
vi.totter 蹒跚;踉跄
Adjective
1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age;
"a tottering skeleton of a horse"
"a tottery old man"
2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse;
"a tottering empire"
The first known use of tottering was in 1534
1 His favoured materials are MDF, cardboard, photos and charity shop finds, brought together in tottering, risky constructions.
2 Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her.
3 The hero, or anti-hero, is a tottering tower of reason whose visitation by dark forces seems a fitting punishment for his intellectual arrogance.
4 So consider this: the sovereign bonds of tottering Pakistan have returned 168 percent so far this year.
看看这个现实:处于飘摇中的巴基斯坦国家债券今年回升了168%。
5 Nan stumbles to her feet and takes one tottering step toward the Mask.
6 All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding.
7 Would all of you throw him down - this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
如同毁坏歪斜的墙,将倒的壁,要到几时呢?
8 Then again, that ladder is unstable and balanced atop a tottering platform.
9 Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own.
10 They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild.
11 There were newspapers in the living room, where foot traffic was dictated by the paths carved between tottering piles.
12 Plenty of small media start-ups these days believe they can deliver the final blow to the tottering neoliberal order.
13 The property market is tottering.
房地产市场摇摇欲坠。
14 Amid all this, the EU is tottering forward.
在这一切之中,欧盟蹒跚的前进着。
15 She maps his extraordinary, Wagnerian Gesamkunstwerk – which extends from labyrinthine, sepulchral tunnels dug out of the earth to impossibly tall, tottering concrete towers – with careful, elegant precision.
16 The relationship between foreground and background stays unsettled, and everything seems to be on the edge of tottering over.
17 His imaginary world – an enclosed, decadent, opaque society that burrowed and wormed amid a tottering gothic city-castle that was falling in ruins even as its rulers schemed – was an intensely visual creation.
18 Mr. Todd acknowledges the challenges the president faced entering office: a tottering economy, two wars inherited from the Bush administration, and an obstructionist Republican opposition.
19 Poor child! The cause was in her tottering feet.
可怜的孩子! 原因是在她那双立不稳的脚上.
20 The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps.
宝宝开始只是爬,后来第一次站起来蹒跚着走了几步。
2 摇晃
dingledangle crank rocky staggering shaky cranky wonky shaking ramshackle faltering wobbling totty wambly quaky reelingly wamblingly falteringly bumpily rockily totteringly sway stagger lurch crankiness tipsiness rockiness dacker roll dance swim reel flicker wobble falter waver teeter
3 摇摇欲坠
4 濒临崩溃
7 摇晃的
dingledangle crank rocky staggering shaky cranky wonky shaking ramshackle faltering wobbling totty wambly quaky
8 摇摇晃晃的
9 摆动
libratory vibrational wiggly swaying oscillatory wavery pendular vibratility swing vibration wiggle flirt flicker wobble oscillation vacillation waver oscillate vacillate librate nod shake lash sway
11 摇摇欲坠的