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单词 totter
释义
totter
verb[I]
uk
/ˈtɒt.ər/us
/ˈtɑː.t̬ɚ/
towalkwithdifficultyin a way thatlooksas if you are about tofall:
跌跌撞撞，踉跄
She totteredunsteadilydown thestairsin herhigh-heeledshoes.她穿着高跟鞋跌跌撞撞地走下楼来。
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staggerverb(MOVE)
teeter
toshakeandmovefromsidetoside:
来回摇晃
Severaltallpilesofbookstottered andfell.堆得高高的几摞书摇晃了几下就倒了下来。
(of acompany,government, etc.) tobecomeweakerand lesslikelytocarryonexisting:
（公司、政府等）摇摇欲坠，行将灭亡
Theindustryhas tottered fromcrisistocrisisnow for twoyears.两年来，该产业危机不断，风雨飘摇。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • halting
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the otheridiom
  • have two left feetidiom
  • hobble
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • reel
  • squeeze
  • straggle
  • teeter
  • toddle
  • toil
  • tottering
  • tumble
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Shaking, swinging and vibrating
Becoming and making less strong

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tottering
tottery
(Definition oftotterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

totter| American Dictionary

totter
verb[I]
us
/ˈtɑt̬·ər/
tomoveorwalkin a way thatlooksas if you are about tofall:
She tottered down thestairs.
(Definition oftotterfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotter

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If either or both of those practices spread very much further, then in my judgment civilisation will be tottering upon the edge of the abyss.
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During the past 25 years, the railway industry has tottered from crisis to crisis and from problem to problem.
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The economic damage to those tottering on the brink may well push them over the edge.
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The consumer at this moment is charged enormously more; half the trades which depend upon coal are at this moment in difficulties and tottering.
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The economy, indeed the country, is tottering on the brink of collapse.
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Listening to some of the speeches one would imagine that the steel industry was tottering into some sort of decline.
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Can she say what intervention she will make to save the tottering textile industry?
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We have no banks breaking and tottering to their fall in this country.
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I have great respect for totters because on the whole they look after their ponies very well.
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They will be tottering to their downfall if the only thing that they can do is to help the drink trade.
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Now, at long last, apparently, it has tottered and it is beginning to fall; it needs replacement.
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To prop up their tottering administration they must borrow some of the main planks of our policy.
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Is it not evident that the whole of this pretentious superstructure of this proposed legislation totters entirely on a subsoil of chicanery and log-rolling?
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Every tottering millimetre in that direction is welcome to us.
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Companies have tottered in the past not because of a lack of skill among the workers of the industries but aften because of incompetent managements.
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