| 词汇 | lurching |
| 释义 | lurching present participle oflurch 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 inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily lurch reel squeeze toddle toil totter tottering totteringly tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making short, sudden movements Examples of lurchinglurching In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. At other moments their response to a situation seemed best reflected in a seesaw action, one actor lurching forward, another recoiling. It was this which drove the lurching, unpredictable violence of the early colonial state. So this lurching back and forth between expectational types can be rather unstable. We are locked into the old lurching process of stop-go. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Giving parents more choice—is that lurching to the right? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one wishes to see authorities lurching from one crisis to the next. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is true, we shall have a violently lurching economy all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That kind of lurching—stop and go—has not allowed the long-term investment that everyone wants in the public services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But we must avoid lurching back into the old-style regulation, stifling individual initiative and enterprise. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We had the usual nonsense and absurdity that we have heard over the past few days about lurching to the right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not lurching from uncertainty to indecision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seem to be lurching to disaster once more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There would be palm-tree justice and a lurching from one case to another, so that the citizen would not know under what law he stood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has now decided to win back the political middle ground by lurching further to the right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The scheme is therefore lurching from crisis to crisis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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