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蹣跚的,動搖的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Totter \Tot"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tottered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Tottering}.] [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS.
tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Cf.{Tilt} to incline,
{Toddle}, {Tottle}, {Totty}.]
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be
unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. ``As
a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.''
--Ps. lxii. 3.
2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
資料來源 : WordNet®
tottering
adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering
skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn: {tottery}]
2: (of structures or institutions) having lost stability;
failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"