Totter
['tɒtə] or ['tɑtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; 'The drunk man tottered over to our table'.
吉塞尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
(v. i.) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
編輯:西尔维亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Stagger, reel, vacillate, falter.[2]. Shake, tremble, oscillate, rock, threaten to fall.
巴里整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stagger, reel, shake, tremble, rock, falter,[See WHOLE]
錄入:昆西
解釋/意思:
v.i. to shake as if about to fall: to be unsteady: to stagger: to shake.—n. Tott′erer.—adv. Tott′eringly in a tottering manner.—adjs. Tott′ery shaky; Tott′y (Spens.) tottering unsteady.
迪莉娅編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- From that day the empire began to totter. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They did not now guess at, and totter on the pathway, divining the mode to please, hoping, yet fearing the continuance of bliss. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- For the first time in her life, the strong woman tottered. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Five Popes tottered to the Lateran to die within the space of ten years. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He shuddered and tottered to his feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Her eyes glazed--she tottered--I thought that she would faint. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- An old gray-headed man tottered forward to slake his burning thirst. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was gone out of the Lock-house as soon as he gave her this permission, and her tottering steps were on the road again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Tottering with weakness, she came forward, and delivered her basket. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Two days later, D'Arnot was tottering about the amphitheater, Tarzan's strong arm about him to keep him from falling. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Thus tottering on the dizzy brink, we were happy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There was a little tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled Law Books, all at 9d. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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