faltered

falter['fɔ:ltə]

• vi.
  • 蹒跚，踉跄；摇晃，摇摆
  • 结巴地说话，支吾；(声音)颤抖：

    The boy faltered when the policeman demanded his name.

    在警察要求男孩说出他的姓名时，他支支吾吾。

  • 踌躇，犹豫，迟疑；退缩，畏缩：

    to falter under enemy fire

    在敌人炮火下畏缩(不前)

  • 变得软弱无力，变弱，变衰弱：

    The economy faltered.

    经济不景气。

• vt.
  • 结结巴巴(或支支吾吾)地说：

    She faltered out a few words.

    他结结巴巴说出几个字来。

• n.
  • 蹒跚；踌躇，犹豫；支吾；畏缩
  • 颤抖的声音

• troilites
• quite a different pair of shoes
• Staurospore
• mobbists
• misdeed
• a heartbeat away (from sth)
• ethylene group
• trimesters
• gazumpings
• wolf in sheep's clothing (或 lamb's skin)
• importunely
• sulindac
• outlain
• repetitiousness
• chrysanthemums
• primordial broth
• dodecyl
• blind drunk
• ink roller
• old women's story
• run away with sb / sth
• Allen, Ethan
• serving carts
• by twos and threes
• tpms
• documenter
• deer roentgen-ray therapy
• Gorgon
• shocker
• bode ill
• foiled
• amahs
• Blondin
• prechlorinations
• paramecin
• tourtery
• hyperbatons
• heavy sleeper
• anasarcas
• acid mucopolysaccharides
• hemisphered
• shoppy
• withheld
• white potato
• goniophotometers
• cotton bollworms
• lavas
• entropy of formation
• false labour
• distendedly
• baku
• subcompanies
• nastic movement
• a hole in one’s coat
• condonable
• exterior of a set
• laughableness
• as occasion requires
• outargued
• solidus curve
• dizzier
• dupondii
• top-heavy
• boardsmanship
• liberalisms
• trifid
• have the wrong end of the stick
• otitis
• dimethoxymethane
• Scoticise
• B cell
• robalo
• Grand inquisitor
• disposal
• protection rackets
• acrodermatitis
• marylanders
• aibicore
• labilizing
• doubting
• assembly
• laminarian
• cloyingly
• time-shifter
• wind avalanche
• dolina
• microsomic
• resupine
• grant price
• string someone along
• field artilleries
• paedologist
• circumstancing
• go after sb
• wrecks
• excretory
• dull-headedness
• Depression glass
• Lyme diseases
• unconcerns