lurching
present participle oflurch
| 单词 | lurching |
| 释义 | lurching present participle oflurch lurch verb uk/lɜːtʃ/us/lɝːtʃ/[I] tomovein a way that is notregularornormal,especiallymakingsuddenmovementsbackwardsorforwardsor fromsidetoside: Thetrainlurchedforwardand some of thepeoplestandingfellover. [I+ adv/prep] toactorcontinuein a way that isuncontrolledand notregular, often withsuddenchanges: Weseemto lurchfromcrisistocrisis. She just lurchesfromonebadrelationshiptoanother. Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making short, sudden movements Examplesoflurchinglurching 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 actorlurchingforward, another recoiling. From theCambridge English Corpus It was this which drove thelurching, unpredictable violence of the early colonial state. From theCambridge English Corpus So thislurchingback and forth between expectational types can be rather unstable. From theCambridge English Corpus We are locked into the oldlurchingprocess of stop-go. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Giving parents more choice—is thatlurchingto the right? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 No one wishes to see authoritieslurchingfrom one crisis to the next. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is true, we shall have a violentlylurchingeconomy all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That kind oflurching—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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But we must avoidlurchingback into the old-style regulation, stifling individual initiative and enterprise. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English We had the usual nonsense and absurdity that we have heard over the past few days aboutlurchingto the right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are notlurchingfrom uncertainty to indecision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We seem to belurchingto disaster once more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There would be palm-tree justice and alurchingfrom 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It has now decided to win back the political middle ground bylurchingfurther to the right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The scheme is thereforelurchingfrom crisis to crisis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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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