| 单词 | vacillate |
| 释义 | vacillate verb[I] disapprovinguk/ˈvæs.ɪ.leɪt/us/ˈvæs.ə.leɪt/to beuncertainwhat to do, or tochangeoften between twoopinions: 踌躇；犹豫；摇摆不定Hermoodvacillatedbetweenhopeanddespair.她时而心怀希望，时而感到绝望。 Doubt & ambivalence
vacillate| American Dictionaryvacillate verb[I] us/ˈvæs·əˌleɪt/to beunabletodecidesomething andesp. tocontinuetochangeopinions: Thepresidentcontinuesto vacillate overforeignpolicy. vacillate| Business Englishvacillate verb[I] uk/ˈvæsɪleɪt/usFINANCE ifprices,rates, etc. vacillate, theykeeprisingandfallingbysmallamounts: Afterweeksof vacillating around $75perbarrel, thepriceofcrudeclosedat $85barrel. to beuncertainabout what to do or tokeepchangingyouropinionabout something: vacillate between sth (and sth)Theelectionresultwas in thehandsofvotersvacillating between twoparties. Examplesofvacillatevacillate However, he fails to see that even in a silent film the visual language of cinema can be equally vacillating and ambiguous. From theCambridge English Corpus The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples of vacillating sounds. From theCambridge English Corpus Overall, political parties appear tovacillatebetween officeand policy-seeking motivations. From theCambridge English Corpus Social policy itself was increasingly vacillating between seeing older people as dependent social casualties, and seeing them as individuals capable of exercising choice. From theCambridge English Corpus Not only did hevacillateabout the nature of the reality of race. From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, the extremes of the diagram meet: vacillating sound objects and accumulations can be very similar. From theCambridge English Corpus From there on we proceed to increased spectral differentiation, inclusion of elements of contrasting sound spectrum, eventually spectral fluctuations with increasingly irregular pulse, until we arrive at the vacillating object. From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, they may apply to some of the same sets of verbs and arguments, so that the child willvacillatebetween competing ways of saying the same thing. From theCambridge English Corpus Françoise often vacillated between periods of immense suffering and periods of relative calm, in which she felt she had recovered fully. From theCambridge English Corpus She thus notes that children may sometimes have constructions that are somewhat incompatible with one another, so that they willvacillatebetween competing ways of saying the same thing. From theCambridge English Corpus Grant vacillated about patronage recommendations, first submitting a name, then withdrawing it, then promising to make a change only to break his word after visits from the other camp. From theCambridge English Corpus They have pleaded and pleaded, while others have marked time, vacillated and discouraged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But what of the harvest that the country is reaping from this limp and vacillating policy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Among soldiers and sailors and people generally there is an impression that vacillating political policies have been our undoing in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been a vacillating policy for a great number of years. 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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