Stagger
['stægə] or ['stægɚ]
解释:
(verb.) to arrange in a systematic order; 'stagger the chairs in the lecture hall'.
(verb.) astound or overwhelm, as with shock; 'She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake'.
(verb.) walk as if unable to control one's movements; 'The drunken man staggered into the room'.
(verb.) walk with great difficulty; 'He staggered along in the heavy snow'.
手打:罗纳德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
(n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
(n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
(v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
(v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
(n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
(n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
(n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
录入:谢里夫
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Reel, totter, vacillate.
v. a. Shock, astonish, astound, amaze, confound, dumfounder, pose, surprise, nonplus, strike with wonder, take by surprise.
编辑:莉莉
解释:
v.i. to reel from side to side: to begin to give way: to begin to doubt: to hesitate.—v.t. to cause to reel: to cause to doubt or hesitate: to shock.—adv. Stagg′eringly.—n. Stagg′ers a popular term applied to several diseases of horses.—Grass or Stomach staggers an acute indigestion; Mad or Sleepy staggers an inflammation of the brain.
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例句:
- I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams, and get up with the lockjaw in the morning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I confess you stagger me, I replied. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- As I turned for a last look as I left the palace garden I had seen her stagger and sink upon the ground beside the little incubator. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If I were lying on a sick bed, you would draw me up--to stagger to your feet and fall there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Clasp your hands so, and stagger across the room, crying frantically, 'Roderigo! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The servant who had followed me staggered back shuddering, and dropped to his knees. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Well,' said Mr Boffin, a little staggered, 'that's the sum we put o' one side for the purpose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered any one who had not such proof of her innocence as I had. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Horta wheeled to charge his enemy once more; a dozen steps he took, then he staggered and fell upon his side. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The tide,' cried the murderer, as he staggered back into the room, and shut the faces out, 'the tide was in as I came up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- You must be a staggering next, must you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- These severe requirements were staggering, but Mr. Edison's courage did not falter. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- To perform that staggering list of things that should be done you find--what? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The murderer staggering backward to the wall, and shutting out the sight with his hand, seized a heavy club and struck her down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The indictment against mere routine in government is a staggering one. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- So he remains for a minute or two, heaped up against it, and then staggers down the shop to the front door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They help him up, and he staggers against the wall and stares at them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Sir Leicester rises from his chair and staggers down again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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