| 词汇 | lurch |
| 释义 | lurch verb uk /lɜːtʃ/ us /lɝːtʃ/ [ I ] to move in a way that is not regular or normal, especially making sudden movements backwards or forwards or from side to side: 摇晃，晃动;（尤指）突然倾斜 The train lurched forward and some of the people standing fell over.火车突然向前晃动了一下，一些站着的人跌倒了。 to walk in a way that is not controlled or even stumbleHe was stumbling around the house like he was drunk. lumberWe held our breath as a black bear lumbered across the hiking trail ahead of us. galumphThe children galumphed down the steps and raced outside to play. bumbleHe bumbled into her and spilled her drink down her gown. falterThe dancer faltered right before the jump and landed awkwardly. totterHe tottered carefully down the gangplank, clutching at the railing. [ I+ adv/prep ] to act or continue in a way that is uncontrolled and not regular, often with sudden changes: 蹒跚，踉跄，磕磕绊绊 We seem to lurch from crisis to crisis.我们似乎总是跌跌撞撞，危机不断。 She just lurches from one bad relationship to another.她情路坎坷。 Moving unsteadily or with difficulty blunder bumble dodder dodderer doddery favour halting hobble inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily teeter toddle toil totter tottering trundle tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making short, sudden movements lurch noun[ C ] uk /lɜːtʃ/ us /lɝːtʃ/ a sudden movement or change that is not smooth or normal: 突然的倾斜（摇晃或改变） The truck gave a sudden lurch as it was hit by a strong gust of wind.一阵强风袭来，卡车突然摇晃了一下。 The party's lurch (= sudden change)to the left will lose it a lot of support.该党突然转向左倾将会失去很多人的支持。 Synonym stagger Moving unsteadily or with difficulty blunder bumble dodder dodderer doddery favour halting hobble inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily teeter toddle toil totter tottering trundle tumble lurch | American Dictionarylurch verb[ I ] us/lɜrtʃ/ to move in an irregular way, esp. making sudden movements forward or to the side: When he put the truck into gear, it lurched forward. Examples of lurchlurch At other moments their response to a situation seemed best reflected in a seesaw action, one actor lurching forward, another recoiling. The lurching nausea his earlier stories taunted you into was replaced with the deep, sick shock of grief: the loss of a child. In the early 1930s, as the industry lurched from crisis to crisis, the jobber's position was jeopardised further. As the economy lurched down from the 1680s, however, civic funding ran out and urban improvement ground to a halt. English fiction loves such people; it never tires of the lurch, of such areas of darkness. Others have criticized social welfare expansion as the beginning of a lurch towards unsustainable universal welfare. The second reason, however, is that such a scheme would leave consumers completely in the lurch. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Are we leaving its inhabitants in the lurch? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They cannot be left in the lurch; they need help. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I do not believe that we should leave them in the lurch, but should be honest in our dealings with them. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, if we leave them in the lurch, we will incur considerable costs as a result of unemployment and bankruptcies. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I think that the committee has really left us a bit in the lurch in regard to this. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Then we will lurch into crises that we could have prevented, and insurance will be the last of the things we need to talk about. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Even though some measures have been taken in recent years to protect victims, the people affected are often left in the lurch. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The company's attitude to the drought has lurched from abject complacency to total panic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of lurch 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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