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词汇 stagger
释义 stagger
verb
uk /ˈstæɡ.ər/ us /ˈstæɡ.ɚ/

staggerverb (MOVE)


C2[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
to walk or move with difficulty as if you are going to fall: 摇晃;蹒跚;踉踉跄跄地走
After he was attacked, he managed to stagger to the phone and call for help.他遇袭后,跌跌撞撞地走到电话机旁打电话求救。
figurativeThe company is staggering under a $15 million debt and will almost certainly collapse by the end of the year.公司背负着1500万美元的债务,举步维艰,年底前几乎肯定要倒闭。
Synonym
lurch
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to walk
walkThe baby has just learned to walk.
strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
strollWe strolled along the beach.
wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
dodderer
doddery
favour
halting
hobble
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
stumblingly
teeter
toddle
toil
totter
trundle
tumble

staggerverb (SHOCK)


[ T ]
to cause someone to feel shocked or surprised because of something unexpected or very unusual happening: 使震惊,使大吃一惊
He staggered all his colleagues by suddenly announcing that he was leaving the company at the end of the month.他突然宣布月底要离开公司,把所有同事都吓了一跳。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
gnaw
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
nerve
self-lacerating
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
tear
toxic

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Surprising and shocking

staggerverb (ARRANGE)


[ T ]
to arrange things, especially hours of work, holidays, or events, so that they begin at different times from those of other people: 使(尤指工作、假期或事件的时间)错开;使交错
Some countries have staggered school holidays so that holiday resorts do not become overcrowded.一些国家将学校假期时间错开,这样度假地就不会太拥挤了。
[ T ]
If the start of a race is staggered, the competitors start at different times or in different positions.(赛跑时)使(起跑时间或起跑位置)错开
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Schedules & agendas
agenda
AOB
business plan
calendar
datebook
fit in
Hegira
Hejira
Hijrah
itinerary
programme
regular season
schedule
scheduled
set the agendaidiom
slot
slot someone/something in
spread
squeeze
timetable

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Athletics
Competing in sport
stagger
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈstæɡ.ər/ us /ˈstæɡ.ɚ/
a way of walking or moving in which you almost fall: 蹒跚;站立不稳
He left the bar with a drunken stagger.他醉得摇摇晃晃地离开了酒吧。
Synonym
lurch
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
dodderer
doddery
favour
halting
hobble
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
stumblingly
teeter
toddle
toil
totter
trundle
tumble

stagger | American Dictionary


stagger
verb
us/ˈstæɡ·ər/

staggerverb (MOVE)


[ I/T ]
to walk or move awkwardly, as if you have lost your balance, or to cause someone to move awkwardly or to lose his or her balance:
[ T ]When he hit his head on a shelf, it momentarily staggered him.
[ I ]She staggered out of bed to answer the phone.

staggerverb (ARRANGE)


[ T ]
to arrange events or schedules so that they happen at different times, or to arrange objects so they are not regular:
The clinics will try to stagger vaccination times to minimize waits and confusion.

stagger | Business English


stagger
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈstæɡər/us
to arrange for things like holidays, working hours, or payments to happen at different times so that they are easier to manage:
Utilities companies will allow customers to stagger payments when they have bills they cannot pay.
Over half of American firms stagger the election of board members, so that the whole board is not replaced at once.

Examples of stagger


stagger
With staggering numbers as these, it is not surprising that chemoprevention has been proposed as a viable strategy to fight cancer.
The diversity is staggering: types of vegetation and associated management practices which range from commercial ranches to traditional transhumance and nomadic systems.
Extrapolating those numbers to the world's population produces staggering estimates.
Consequently, the implementation of training was staggered for groups of students.
Furthermore, the axial staggers and the link lengths were closely maintained.
The sheer quantity of dung might be staggering in urban areas in an era dominated by horse transport, cowsheds, minor piggeries, middens and cesspits.
He responds to this provocation with an exposition of the authority of dreams that is staggering by contrast.
Despite this, many dealers earned staggering incomes by generating incredible turnovers.
Rather, he gives us unexpert sophistication: a village band staggering from solecism to solecism in an ostentatiously banal and trivial tune.
Following release of strain, the characteristic staggered arrangement was recovered, indicating that microfibril bundle elasticity is reversible.
One would imagine that the losses in human capital are staggering.
The amount of food and supplies needed to provision the royal entourage could be staggering.
Agriculture and the transport system were likewise soon staggering under the strains imposed by war.
Envision this economy without staggering, that is, household unions fix the money wage for two periods, but they all reset it in the same period.
The two structures thus use the same pitches and note lengths, but staggered and overlapping differently.
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