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

• She walked slowly with tottering steps.
  她迈着蹒跚的步子慢慢地走着。
• The tottering state was propped up by the financiers.
  这个摇摇欲坠的政府是靠这些金融家们支撑着的。
• 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。
• At stake in Washington in November 2008 was the future of the tottering US banking system.
  在2008年11月的华盛顿，国会的决定关系到步履蹒跚的美国银行体系的未来。
• The tottering cause of Sichuan Opera seems to have successors.
  风雨飘摇中的川剧事业似乎后继有人。
• The euro zone's new 'banking union' ensures that bank creditors will take losses to bolster tottering banks in the future.
  欧元区的新银行联盟则确保银行的债权人未来将承担损失，以此来提振步履艰难的银行业。
• EXAMPLE: Our petroleum exploration company's expenses were huge, and we were tottering on the brink of abandoning our efforts until last week when one of our drills discovered oil.
  我们这家石油勘探公司开支巨大，原来一直在放弃勘探的边缘徘徊，直到上周我们的一口钻井打出了石油。
• 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。
• When later, grown-up, I went to Hangzhou and saw this tottering pagoda, I felt uncomfortable.
  后来我长大了，到杭州，看见这破破烂烂的塔，心里就不舒服。
• The property market is tottering.
  房地产市场摇摇欲坠。