英语释义

• (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse;

  "a tottering empire"

• unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age;

  "a tottering skeleton of a horse"

  "a tottery old man"

片语

Tottering foe穷寇

tottering drunks摇摇晃晃

staggery蹒跚的，摇晃的

tottering enemy穷寇

be tottering摇摇欲坠

doddery行动迟缓的，蹒跚的；衰老的（等于 doddered 或 doddering）

staggering惊人的，令人震惊的

tottering chimney摇摇欲坠的烟囱

tottering market市况不稳

tottering g蹒跚的

Trembling tottering颤颤巍巍

英汉例句

• women had to wear high heels and they were tottering along and falling on the cobblestones wearing high heels and european style dresses.

  妇女们不得不穿上高跟鞋和欧式女装,在鹅卵石铺的路上步履蹒跚,有时甚至会摔得四脚朝天

• what it still sidesteps is the basis on which new equity will be injected into tottering banks.

  然而该份声明仍旧回避了一个问题：注入危机银行的将是何种新资本。

• what is more, france and the efsf are like tottering drunks holding one another up. if france is downgraded, the efsf will be close behind.

  另外，法国和efsf就像是两个互相搀扶蹒跚而行的醉汉，如果法国信誉被降级了，那么efsf也难独善其身。

• i carry with me the vivid image of thistiny animal tottering painfully out from her cast, of her in the palmof my hand trying to pull out the sutures that were a constantirritation to her.

  这个小小动物痛苦地蹒跚着摆脱石膏，在我的手掌中试图咬出不断刺激她的缝合线，这个栩栩如生的画面一直令我难以忘怀。

• what she did not know was that the manchu tribes had recently united and had risen up with such force that, invading china, they had deposed the tottering ming dynasty.

  她还不知道，满族部落已经统一而崛起，实力强大。他们侵入中国，推翻了摇摇欲坠的明王朝。

• this time, perhaps the real challenge to the tottering status quo is not from the left at all.

  这一次，对这种摇摇欲坠的现状产生真正挑战的或许根本不是左派。

• still, mr paulson regrouped by pouring hundreds of billions of government dollars into the tottering financial system, which has bought a measure of stability.

  然而，保尔森利用数千亿美元重组了摇摇欲坠的金融体系。这也带来了一定的稳定。

• jackson had been engineering a comeback tour, an effort to rehabilitate his public image and bolster his tottering finances.

  杰克逊一直筹备着自己复出的巡回演唱会，希望借此来重塑个人公众形象，同时缓解财务危机。

• there is too much at stake, right now, in our turbulent and tottering world, to make the same mistakes yet again.

  在我们动蕩和不稳定的世界上，现在正处在危急关头，不能再次犯同样的错误。

• many financial institutions are tottering under the weight of toxic securities.

  在危险的有价证券影响之下，许多金融机构摇摇欲坠。

• martin guided her tottering footsteps to a chair, from where she watched him with bulging eyes.

  她歪歪倒倒地被马丁扶到一张椅子上坐下，在那里瞪大眼望着他。

• he had been engineering a comeback tour in an effort to rehabilitate his public image and bolster his tottering finances.

  他已经策划进行巡回的复出演唱会，从而恢复他的公众形象并支撑他那危机重重的财政。

• he may yet preserve his tottering regime by brute force alone.

  他仍可以单凭残暴的武力来维持他摇摇欲坠的政权。

• yet again, a japanese government is tottering

  日本政府再次步履蹒跚

• the question that hangs over the rescue-apart from whether taxpayers will get their money back-is whether the government can continue to deal with tottering financial companies in an ad hoc manner.

  撇开纳税人的钱是否能够收回不说，即将发生的救援的问题在于政府在这个是否可以继续以这种特别的方式来处理其它的处于困境的金融公司。

• ensuring this happens is as great a challenge for these governments as protecting their tottering banks and slashing their budget deficits.

  政府能否在这个问题得偿所愿的难度系数和保护风雨飘摇的银行、削减财政赤字的难度系数一样高。

• others—and not just the tottering likes of greece and spain—will surely follow.

  另外一方面，不仅仅是那些步履蹒跚的国家像希腊和西班牙肯定会追随英国的做法。

• this left mr dimon free to snap up tottering rivals including bear stearns, an investment bank, and washington mutual, a thrift.

  这使得戴蒙能够毫无顾忌地抢购风雨飘摇中的对手，包括投行贝尔斯登，华盛顿互助储蓄银行等。

• it waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.

  它摇摇摆摆地走向水池，看起来不像是一个食肉动物，而更像是一个年老的相扑选手蹒跚地走向和卫冕冠军的一场较量。

• it would not bail out tottering funds but would buy securities from their healthy peers in a panic, helping them to meet redemptions.

  它不会救助摇摇欲坠的基金，但如果引起恐慌，会出手购买健康基金手中的资产，帮助它们应对赎回潮。

• so consider this: the sovereign bonds of tottering pakistan have returned 168 percent so far this year.

  看看这个现实：处于飘摇中的巴基斯坦国家债券今年回升了168%。

相似词

breakable易碎的东西，易破的东西