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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The peace talks were tottering on the brink of collapse.
  和谈就要破裂了。
• 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 wartime liberal government was tottering.
  战时的自由党政府摇摇欲坠。
• 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。
• In the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
  他那苍老的声音尖厉、颤抖，仿佛那声音是按船上的绞盘棒定的音，而且定音时嗓子喊破了。
• The revelation that Chinese companies discussed selling weapons to the tottering regime as late as July, in contravention of UN resolutions, is hugely embarrassing for Beijing, which is already struggling to improve relations with the victorious rebels.
  中国企业迟至7月仍与摇摇欲坠的卡扎菲政权就销售武器进行谈判，违背联合国决议，这对北京是一个巨大的难堪，北京方面在与取胜的利比亚反对派改善关系方面已经困难重重。