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unsteady

/uhn-sted-ee/US // ʌnˈstɛd i //UK // (ʌnˈstɛdɪ) //

不稳的,不稳定的,不稳定,不稳

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not steady or firm; unstable; shaky: an unsteady hand.
    • : fluctuating or wavering:an unsteady flame; unsteady prices.
    • : irregular or uneven: an unsteady development.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    un·stead·ied, un·stead·y·ing.

    • : to make unsteady.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.shaky

Examples

  • Some months later they saw a hotel manager openly complain to a vendor about the unsteady supply of produce the hotel was getting.

  • Each chair is made with a sturdy steel frame that doesn’t wobble or feel unsteady, and the canvas seat offers plenty of wiggle room.

  • Enter Adam Young, a geomorphologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who has just compiled perhaps the most detailed dataset on an unsteady cliff faces to date, as our MacKenzie Elmer covers in a new story.

  • At the extremes, that ability can push people toward crafting more and more elaborate alternate realities, rickety structures that expand into elegant patterns but that stand on unsteady bases of support.

  • Many of their students are disproportionately burdened by loan debt, and come from families with unsteady financial fortunes.

  • He discovered his friend—the worse for wear and unsteady on her feet—in the second-floor living room.

  • You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.

  • I was a newspaperman, just returned from the Middle East—a bit unsteady, still, in America.

  • Besides worrying about how the models would walk on the unsteady ground, audience members knew something magical would happen.

  • Filigrees of rhetorical precision atop unsteady pillars of conceptual bluff.

  • The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.

  • He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.

  • Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?

  • Have you noticed that to write with a steel pen is like walking on unsteady stones with sabots?

  • With weak unsteady steps he paced his room, and looked at the old Swiss chamois-gun above the door.

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