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vacillation

/vas-uh-ley-shuhn/US // ˌvæs əˈleɪ ʃən //

摇摆不定,摇摆,犹豫不决,游移不定

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of vacillating.
    • : a state of indecision or irresolution.
    • : unsteady movement; fluctuation.

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Examples

  • After some vacillation, I decided to include the translation at the very end of the entry, especially because, as a runner-up, it appeared near the top of the list of more than 30 entries.

  • On the other hand, the vacillation in policy and the policy uncertainty is unsettling, just like it would be for employees in a company.

  • He also could blame the downturn on the vacillation of authorities—and politics.

  • At the Pentagon, which bears the brunt of much of this hesitation and vacillation, the mood is one of not-so-quiet desperation.

  • Paul Krugman of The New York Times is convinced that the president's weakness and vacillation are to blame.

  • Before parliament was prorogued the weakness and vacillation of the ministry had been very apparent.

  • He was generally a man of prompt decision, and he well knew that he would incur by this act the charge of vacillation.

  • All this vacillation harmonised with the foreign and domestic policy of Sir Robert Peel, under whose instructions he acted.

  • At Erfurt the same vacillation overmastered Napoleon (p. 181) as that with which he had been tormented since Tilsit.

  • Again, the vacillation of the ministry defeated the expedition against Canada.

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