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staggered

/stag-erd/US // ˈstæg ərd //

错开的,错落有致,错落有致的,分段式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : arranged in a series of alternating or continually overlapping intervals of time: Board members serve staggered four-year terms, with new directors replacing outgoing ones each year.
    • : arranged so as to alternate on either side of a center: A circular base approximately 2 meters in diameter is placed atop a couple of staggered layers of brick to allow for aeration from below.
    • : scheduled or ordered in gradual stages; phased: Microsoft has confirmed that the new update will be a staggered release.
    • : rendered helpless with astonishment; shocked: Shakespeare’s King Lear questions everything we know, posing to our staggered imaginations the possibility that the cosmos is immoral, even malevolent.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbastound, shock

Examples

  • The play is double trouble, with George flying around a stagger screen and Leonard jostling for a snug position down on the left block.

  • He had a drunken stagger and slurred speech, so putting two and two together, I figured security had eighty-sixed him.

  • His success later in the afternoon has staggered a nation and sent two families reeling from heartache that never diminishes.

  • Kitty staggered around the corner to the rear of her building, trying to make it home.

  • I was not prepared for the staggered, ruthless falling apart of one of the people I love most in the world.

  • Edwards (who was governor for a total of sixteen, staggered years from 1972 to 1996) was long-dogged by charges of corruption.

  • Sid was the only one who laughed; staggered around, holding his gut.

  • He staggered along with much difficulty and managed to complete half of it by Christmas.

  • The drunken Man staggered to his feet, and hiccupped vehemently in the face of the assembled Gods.

  • In this case, the holes in the tracker bar are made smaller than usual and they are staggered--or arranged in two rows.

  • Black Hood fell back from the door, staggered by his first contact with that hissing gray hell.

  • As she turned the corner, a lame child in a calico dress and torn hood staggered past her bent with the weight of a heavy basket.