Vacillate
['væsɪleɪt]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
(v. t.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
錄入:山姆
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Sway, reel, stagger, rock, move to and fro.[2]. Waver, fluctuate, hesitate, be inconstant, be unsettled, be unsteady, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, box the compass, run with the hare and hunt with the hound, be a weathercock.
手打:帕特丽夏
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fluctuate, dubitate, waver, be_unsteady
ANT:Determine, abide, adhere
科尔校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to sway to and fro: to waver: to be unsteady.—adjs. Vac′illant vacillating; Vac′illāting inclined to fluctuate: wavering: unsteady.—adv. Vac′illātingly.—n. Vacillā′tion act of vacillating.—adj. Vac′illātory wavering.
錄入:凯文
例句/造句/用法:
- A man of my age and experience ought to have known better than to vacillate in this unreasonable manner. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I know of nothing to make me vacillate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I drew a touching picture of his vacillating health; I boasted of my own strength. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yet hitherto our star has been a vacillating and wavering star? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- My judgment now is that he was vacillating and undecided in his actions. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Its vacillating effulgence seems to say that its state, even like ours upon earth, is wavering and inconstant; it fears, methinks, and it loves. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Raymond had evidently vacillated during his journey, and irresolution was marked in every gesture as we entered Perdita's cottage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
校對:罗伯特