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lurching

/lurch/US // lɜrtʃ //UK // (lɜːtʃ) //

蹒跚而行,蹒跚的,蹒跚而行的,蹒跚的脚步

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of swaying abruptly.
    • : an awkward, swaying or staggering motion or gait.
    • : a sudden tip or roll to one side, as of a ship or a staggering person.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make a lurch; move with lurches; stagger: The wounded man lurched across the room.
    • : to roll or pitch suddenly.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmove toward with jerk

Examples

  • And who knows, maybe lawmakers will discover that lurching from crisis to crisis is no way to run a government.

  • We are finally lurching toward a serious debate about guns and violence in this country.

  • As the debt talks were lurching into the eleventh hour, McConnell proposed a way out of the problem.

  • Now Pawlenty finds himself lurching from the frozen north into the crosshairs of national politics.

  • We are lurching from outrage, to anger, to outrage at the anger, and back again in microseconds.

  • Gregory crawled and scrambled over the front of the lurching car and got into the driver's seat.

  • The Angel clung to the card and paper, and as best she could in the lurching, swaying cab, read the addresses over.

  • He got up, lurching to the motion of the flying train, and started forward to the water cooler behind the car door.

  • Lurching down the office steps, with flushed face and bloodshot eyes, came Captain Newhall.

  • Robert Matcham took a lurching step, but I caught him by the sleeve and forestalled any other answer by tendering my prize.