stagger

英 ['st?g?] 美['st?g?]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?staggers;過去式:?staggered;過去分詞:?staggered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?staggering;

“使打嗝”，克勞斯看到邁克爾嚇得死打嗝《吸血鬼日記》
2. 因?yàn)椤罢痼@”而導(dǎo)致的蹣跚、搖晃，猶如晴天霹靂。
3. stumble + swagger => stagger.
4. stumble => stagger.

stagger 蹣跚，踉蹌，震驚，吃驚，使交錯(cuò)，錯(cuò)開

來自古諾斯語 stakra,推，擠，使打轉(zhuǎn)，來自 Proto-Germanic*stakon,棍子，柱子，來自 PIE*steg, 棍子，柱子，詞源同 stack,stick.-er,表反復(fù)。其字面意思可能是用棍子在后面追打或趕，引申詞義蹣跚，踉蹌，及相關(guān)比喻義。

stagger (v.): mid-15c., "walk unsteadily, reel" (intransitive), altered from stakeren (early 14c.), from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Danish stagra, Old Norse stakra "to push, shove, cause to reel," also "to stumble, stagger," perhaps literally "hit with a stick," from Proto-Germanic *stakon- "a stake," from PIE *steg- (1) "pole, stick." Cognate with Dutch staggelen "to stagger," German staggeln "to stammer." Transitive sense of "bewilder, amaze" first recorded 1550s; that of "arrange in a zig-zag pattern" is from 1856. Related: Staggered; staggering.

1. Truman allowed him to stagger on for nearly another two years.: 杜魯門允許他又硬撐了近兩年。

2. Our management has decided to stagger our working hour.: 我們的管理層已決定錯(cuò)開工作時(shí)間.

3. The unexpected blow did not stagger his resolution.: 這個(gè)意外打擊并沒有動(dòng)搖他的決心.

4. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.: stagger和stumble均指不穩(wěn)的或身不由己的動(dòng)作.

5. We can't hold the two meetings at the same time; we must stagger them.: 這兩個(gè)會(huì)不能同時(shí)開, 得錯(cuò)一下.