stagger
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 蹒跚,踌躇
- vi.
- 蹒跚,犹豫
- vt.
- 使摇摆,使踌躇,交错,错开
- adj.
- 交错的,错开的
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词源说明
From Middle English stageren, a variant of stakeren ("to walk unsteadily, stagger"; whence modern dialectal English stacker (“to totter, reel, stagger”)), from Old Norse stakra (“to stagger, sway, waver, swing, wobble”), frequentative of Old Norse staka (“to push, knock, bump into, stumble”). Cognate with Danish stagre (“to stagger”), West Flemish staggeren (“to stagger”), Dutch staggelen (“to stagger”), German staggeln (“to stammer, stagger”).