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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. The property market is tottering.
     房地产市场摇摇欲坠。
  2. ...further criticism of the tottering government.
     对濒临瓦解的政府的进一步批评

英英释义

adj

• (of structures or institutions) having lost stability
  1. a tottering empire
• unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
  1. a tottering skeleton of a horse
  2. a tottery old man
  Synonym:tottery

双语例句

• The idea of the already tottering Pakistani state defaulting is not reassuring.
  已是摇摇欲坠的巴基斯坦政府违约不能让人安心。
• I could see the pile of books tottering but couldn't reach them before they fell.
  我可以看到这堆书摇摇晃晃，但是我还没来得及够到它们，它们就倒了下来。
• But with almost all of the Arab regimes tottering, Israel could have no guarantee that such a peace would last.
  但在几乎所有阿拉伯政权都摇摇欲坠之际，以色列可能无法确保这样的和平得以持续。
• Tu weiyueh smiled grimly, feeling that his "regime" really was tottering this time.
  屠维岳又笑了一笑，感到自己的“政权”这次是当真在动摇了。
• Along with the expansion of capitalism in the world, China was involved in the tide of global commodity economy in modern times and that made the tottering feudal dynasty shocked unprecedentedly.
  随着资本主义在全球的扩张，中国在近代被卷入了世界商品经济的大潮之中，这使本来就摇摇欲坠的封建王朝受到了空前绝后的冲击。
• She walked slowly with tottering steps.
  她迈着蹒跚的步子慢慢地走着。
• The wartime liberal government was tottering.
  战时的自由党政府摇摇欲坠。
• Private entrepreneurs in China have made substantial inroads into the steel sector in the past decade, usually by buying up and restructuring tottering state-owned firms like Tonghua.
  过去10年来，中国私营企业主纷纷大举进军钢铁行业，他们通常是买下像通钢这样摇摇欲坠的国有企业，并对其进行重组。
• 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。