stagger

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈstæɡə/    美 /ˈstæɡɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
    — 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though
  2. One who attends a stag night. UK
    — Tallinn no longer takes pride in the title of 'favourite destination of British staggers'.
  3. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
    — parasitic staggers
  4. Bewilderment; perplexity.
  5. The spacing out of various actions over time.
    — 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.
  6. The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
  7. The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
动词 v.
  1. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.; In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. intransitive
    — She began to stagger across the room.
  2. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.; To cause to reel or totter. transitive
    — The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
  3. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.; To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. intransitive
    — 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
  4. Doubt, waver, be shocked.; To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. intransitive
    — He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
  5. Doubt, waver, be shocked.; To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. transitive
    — He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
  6. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).; To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. transitive
  7. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).; To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. transitive
    — We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
  8. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).; To schedule in intervals or at different times. transitive
    — We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

词形变化

staggers plural staggers present,singular,third-person staggering participle,present staggered participle,past staggered past staggers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bestagger stagger breathe stagger breathing staggerbush staggerer staggering bob staggeringly stagger juice staggerment staggers stagger soup stagger-through staggerweed staggerwort staggery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English stag
English -er
English stagger
From stag + -er.
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