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Stagger Stumble 13000.Stagger 英 Stægə]美 Stægɚ 释义 Vt

正面 13000.stagger
英 ['stægə]美 ['stægɚ]

背面
释义:
vt. 蹒跚;使交错;使犹豫vi. 蹒跚;犹豫n. 蹒跚;交错安排adj. 交错的;错开的
例句:
1. Truman allowed him to stagger on for nearly another two years.杜鲁门允许他又硬撑了近两年。

“使打嗝”,克劳斯看到迈克尔吓得死打嗝《吸血鬼日记》2. 因为“震惊”而导致的蹒跚、摇晃,犹如晴天霹雳。3. stumble + swagger => stagger.4. stumble => stagger.
stagger 蹒跚,踉跄,震惊,吃惊,使交错,错开来自古诺斯语 stakra,推,挤,使打转,来自 Proto-Germanic*stakon,棍子,柱子,来自 PIE*steg, 棍子,柱子,词源同 stack,stick.-er,表反复。其字面意思可能是用棍子在后面追打或赶,引申 词义蹒跚,踉跄,及相关比喻义。
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."

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