| 单词 | stagger |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['stægə] |
| 解释 | v. 蹒跚，摇晃 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v.蹒跚，摇晃(to move on unsteadily) 【例】 The ship staggered. He staggered just for a moment and then made a decision. |
| 字源 | 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. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】stage 舞台 + er 者，演员一上舞台表演(又蹦又跳)我们搭的这个戏台子就摇晃；近于stake 木桩，木桩是摇晃的，不稳的 |
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