| 词汇 | hesitate |
| 释义 | hesitate verb[ I ] uk /ˈhez.ɪ.teɪt/ us /ˈhez.ə.teɪt/ B2 to pause before you do or say something, often because you are uncertain or nervous about it: 犹豫，踌躇 She hesitated slightly before answering the detective's question.在回答警探的问题之前，她稍稍犹豫了一下。 "Do you love me?" she asked. He hesitated and then said, "I'm not sure."“你爱我吗？”她问道。他犹豫了一下，然后说：“我不确定。” [ + to infinitive ]If you need anything, don't hesitate to call me.如果你需要什么，马上给我打电话。 Should you ever need anything, please don't hesitate to contact me. He hesitated before ringing her, fearful of what she might say. He hesitated before opening the door and walking into the room. She hesitated in the middle of the sentence. He sounded nervous, and kept hesitating as he spoke. Hesitating backward broken English dilly-dally dither ditherer gun-shy halting haltingly hang hang back have a foot in both campsidiom hem and hawidiom hesitancy hesitant hesitantly hesitatingly hum pussyfoot shilly-shally sit on the fenceidiom hesitate | American Dictionaryhesitate verb[ I ] us/ˈhez·ɪˌteɪt/ to pause before you do or say something, often because you are uncertain or nervous about it: [ + to infinitive ]If you need anything, don’t hesitate to call me. hesitantadjectiveus/ˈhez·ɪ·tənt/ [ + to infinitive ]The bank manager is hesitant to approve the loan. hesitationnoun[ U ]us/ˌhez·ɪˈteɪ·ʃən/ There was some hesitation about inviting him. Examples of hesitatehesitate Second, if a plan exists which is unambiguously in everyone's interest, then the individual players will not hesitate to choose their part of the plan. It almost seems as if the difficulties surrounding the 1929 conference made everyone involved hesitate to approach the issue again. The authors never hesitate to break with earlier accounts and views (including their own) if the data call for revision. Elders clearly hesitated to break apart these unions, illicit though they were. He hesitated, waiting for me to say something. The woman knows what she wants - namely, suitable revenge - and hesitates only as to the means. This met some criticism after the war, and was a fact the volunteers themselves did not hesitate to point out. Some bilingual programs hesitate to introduce reading in two languages for fear of confusing the child, but the research evidence is just the opposite. If one hesitates to accept the methods, concepts, or the conclusions of the author, one cannot help but admire and support his goals. Many of the progressive intellectuals did not hesitate to praise the post-revolutionary strategy of communal rural development as a truly viable option for peripheral development. This explains also why some do not hesitate to attack colleagues on bracketing, bound variables. To this end he did not hesitate to break his word on later occasions either. It hesitated to reduce interest rates after devaluation for fear of fuelling in-ation. If we can prevent suffering by eliminating syndromes that offer their bearers only a low quality of life then why hesitate? Unable to decide one way or another, congressmen hesitated over this unpromising situation. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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