staggered 的定义
- 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.
staggered 近义词
walk falteringly
astound, shock
更多staggered例句
- 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.