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vacillating

/vas-uh-ley-ting/US // ˈvæs əˌleɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ˈvæsɪˌleɪtɪŋ) //

摇摆不定,徘徊不前,摇摆不定的,徘徊不定

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not resolute; wavering; indecisive; hesitating: an ineffectual, vacillating person.
    • : oscillating; swaying; fluctuating: a vacillating indicator.

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Examples

  • Vacillating between silly and serious, the talk with Ansari is interrupted several times with giggling—most of it his own.

  • Vacillating and unintelligent, his actions were all guided by his mistress, Mme Bonnemain.

  • Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.

  • To go back on it, and at the eleventh hour, would proclaim him weak and vacillating, and the effect might be as Strachan said.

  • They could get no satisfactory answer from Aranjuez, where the vacillating, terrified, and disunited court now was.

  • It is small wonder that the measures of such a congress, when not vacillating, were weak.

  • For a moment Mrs. Horncastle was speechless and vacillating.