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词汇 tottering
释义 tottering
adjective
uk /ˈtɒt.ər.ɪŋ/ us /ˈtɑː.t̬ɚ.ɪŋ/
walking with difficulty in a way that looks as if you are about to fall: 跌跌撞撞的,踉踉跄跄的
One picture was of a tottering 89-year-old leaving the platform after her conference speech.有一张照片是一位步履蹒跚的89岁老人在大会发言后离开讲台。
She walked slowly with tottering steps.她踉踉跄跄地慢慢走着。
shaking and moving from side to side, and likely to fall: 摇摇欲坠的
It is now so easy to buy books over the internet that the average home is bursting with tottering piles of paperbacks.现在通过互联网购买书籍非常容易,所以每个人的家里都摆满了成堆的平装书。
They lived in tottering shacks made from mud, bricks and breeze blocks.他们住在用泥巴、砖块和焦渣石糊成的残破棚屋里。
becoming weaker, and likely to fail or end: 蹒跚; 踉跄; 跌跌撞撞; 摇摇欲坠
It was the last decision of a tottering government.这是一个摇摇欲坠的政府的最后决定。
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No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road.
One self-portrait includes a tottering chair on which she seems to be precariously balancing.
He flew to New Hampshire vowing to rescue his tottering campaign.
Four tottering banks have been rescued by state companies in the past month.
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

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Shaking, swinging and vibrating
Becoming and making less strong
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