Waver
['weɪvə] or ['wevɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of moving back and forth.
(noun.) someone who communicates by waving.
(verb.) sway to and fro.
格里塔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
(v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
(v.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
杰西編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Wave, undulate, float, flicker.[2]. Vacillate, hesitate, fluctuate, be in suspense, be undetermined, be unsettled, be in doubt.
克洛伊校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Hesitate, dubitate, halt, fluctuate, vacillate, alternate, scruple,be_undetermined, totter
ANT:Determine, decide, rest, repose, settle
博妮塔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- But still, change and waver as they might in the expression they imparted to the music, their resolution to play never faltered. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Sophia, at Fanny's persuasion, now began to waver. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Nor did the other's frank, clear eyes waver beneath D'Arnot's fixed gaze. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She would not fix any definite time--she still wavered. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was evidently in a condition of great suffering, and Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- After all his insistence upon the oneness of God, he wavered. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When Muhammad wavered, Abu Bekr sustained him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So far as I know--and I believe his honest heart was transparent to me--he never wavered again, in his solemn certainty of finding her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There is not a shadow of wavering. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She cannot choose for herself to be strong in this fancy, wavering in that, and weak in the other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Let them rise, said a voice behind us; a thin, wavering voice, yet one that had evidently been accustomed to command for many years. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The shock of this retort had the effect of crystallizing Selden's wavering intentions. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
德布斯錄入