teetering

英 [ˈtiːtərɪŋ]

美 [ˈtiːtərɪŋ]

v.  摇晃; 蹒跚行走; 踉跄; 摇摇欲坠
teeter的现在分词

现在分词：teetering　

BNC.44425 / COCA.30320

柯林斯词典

• VERB 濒临(危险的形势)
  Teeteris used in expressions such asteeter on the brinkandteeter on the edgeto emphasize that something seems to be in a very unstable situation or position.
  1. Three of the hotels are in receivership, and others are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy...
     有 3 家宾馆已破产在管，其他几家正在破产的边缘徘徊。
  2. His voice teetered on the edge of hysteria.
     他的声音近乎歇斯底里。
  3. ...white towns teetering precariously on the edge of cliffs.
     在悬崖边上摇摇欲坠的几座白色小镇
• VERB (人)步履蹒跚，踉踉跄跄;(物)摇摇欲坠，东倒西歪
  If someone or somethingteeters, they shake in an unsteady way, and seem to be about to lose their balance and fall over.
  1. Hyde shifted his weight and felt himself teeter forward, beginning to overbalance...
     海德转移了一下重心，就感到自己往前倾，开始失去平衡。
  2. He watched the cup teeter on the edge before it fell.
     他眼看着茶杯在边上摇摇欲坠，然后掉落。

双语例句

• President Obama started his first term with a bang, simultaneously engineering an auto industry rescue, stabilizing a teetering Wall Street, and negotiating a massive stimulus package to wrench the economy back from the brink.
  当年，奥巴马首次当选美国总统可谓轰动一时，他不仅拯救了美国汽车行业，稳定了风雨飘摇的华尔街，并且提出一系列大规模经济刺激方案，把美国经济从崩溃的边缘拉了回来。
• And now we're teetering on the high wire.
  而我们现在仿佛在走钢丝。
• They were teetering on the edge of failure or even outright, expensive disaster.
  项目在失败的边缘摇摇欲坠，甚至可能是一场昂贵的灾难。
• Teetering along the Pacific Ring of fire, Japan has long cultivated a nuclear power program despite the obvious dangers.
  尽管核能项目的危险性显而易见，位于环太平洋火山带之上的日本在很久以前就开始了在这个领域的发展。
• A week later the country was teetering on the brink of civil war.
  而一周之后，肯尼亚却偷天换日地走到了内战的边缘地带。
• But the picture is more mixed in countries like France, which are still teetering on the brink of the eurozone crisis.
  但在法国等国家，情况更多样化一些。这些国家仍处于欧元区危机的边缘。
• If anything goes wrong, you are teetering high above the center ring with no safety net, because this method glosses over a critical concept.
  如果出现任何问题，您就像是步履蹒跚的高高走在没有安全网保护的中心环之上，因为该方法掩盖了一个关键的概念。
• Afghanistan's opium industry is teetering on the brink of legalisation, and could provide a source of opiates for the developing world, reports Katharine Sanderson in this Nature article.
  KatharineSanderson在《自然》杂志的这篇新闻特写中报道，阿富汗的鸦片业在可能到来的合法化种植边缘步履蹒跚，而它可能成为发展中国家新的阿片类（麻醉剂）药物来源。
• Wave after wave of wave soaked my ankle, multicolored rosy clouds, teetering on a single lonely heart.
  一波又一波的浪浸湿了我的脚踝，五彩斑斓的彩霞，徘徊着一颗孤寂的心。
• All of us took perverse delight in watching as a few bottlenecks formed and one person slowly had a growing, teetering stack of blocks on his left waiting for him to process.
  我们所有的人都反常地喜欢看到一些障碍形成，一个人那里慢慢地出现一个增长的，不稳定的盒子堆，在其左边等待他去处理。