tottering
英 [ˈtɒtərɪŋ]
美 [ˈtɑːtərɪŋ]
v. 蹒跚; 踉跄; 跌跌撞撞; 摇摇欲坠; 摇摇晃晃
totter的现在分词
现在分词:tottering
BNC.33005 / COCA.31389
柯林斯词典
- VERB 跌跌撞撞;蹒跚;踉跄
If someonetotterssomewhere, they walk there in an unsteady way, for example because they are ill or drunk.- He tottered to the fridge, got a beer and slumped at the table...
他踉跄地走到冰箱前,拿出一瓶啤酒,一屁股坐在桌边。 - 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。
- He tottered to the fridge, got a beer and slumped at the table...
- VERB 摇摇欲坠;变得不稳;动摇
If something such as a market or governmentis tottering, it is weak and likely to collapse or fail completely.- The property market is tottering.
房地产市场摇摇欲坠。 - ...further criticism of the tottering government.
对濒临瓦解的政府的进一步批评
- The property market is tottering.
英英释义
adj
- (of structures or institutions) having lost stability
- a tottering empire
- unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
- a tottering skeleton of a horse
- a tottery old man
双语例句
- 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。 - But some of our comrades, tottering along like a woman with bound feet, are complaining all the time, "You're going too fast, much too fast." He walked softly away into the lane towards his own house.
我们的某些同志却像一个小脚女人,东摇西摆地在那里走路,老是埋怨旁人说:走快了,走快了。他轻手轻脚地走开了,走向通往自己家的小路。 - Martin guided her tottering footsteps to a chair, from where she watched him with bulging eyes.
她歪歪倒倒地被马丁扶到一张椅子上坐下,在那里瞪大眼望着他。 - When later, grown-up, I went to Hangzhou and saw this tottering pagoda, I felt uncomfortable.
后来我长大了,到杭州,看见这破破烂烂的塔,心里就不舒服。 - In the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
他那苍老的声音尖厉、颤抖,仿佛那声音是按船上的绞盘棒定的音,而且定音时嗓子喊破了。 - At stake in Washington in November 2008 was the future of the tottering US banking system.
在2008年11月的华盛顿,国会的决定关系到步履蹒跚的美国银行体系的未来。 - The wartime liberal government was tottering.
战时的自由党政府摇摇欲坠。 - This major change is occurring just as old family support systems are tottering towards extinction.
正当旧家庭所维系的体制摇摇欲坠迈向灭绝的时候,这个重大的变革发生了。 - EXAMPLE: Our petroleum exploration company's expenses were huge, and we were tottering on the brink of abandoning our efforts until last week when one of our drills discovered oil.
我们这家石油勘探公司开支巨大,原来一直在放弃勘探的边缘徘徊,直到上周我们的一口钻井打出了石油。 - The demand side risk is familiar: a sharp US slowdown, probably triggered by a tottering housing market.
需求风险已为人所熟知:即美国经济增长的急剧减速,导火索可能是摇摇欲坠的楼市。