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单词 unsteadily
释义 unˈsteadily, adv.
[un-1 11. Cf. unsteady a.]
In an unsteady manner.
1556J. Heywood Spider & Flie Bb iij b, To se these flies now: so vnstedily stagger, So late so redie.1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. x. §31 He that uses his Words loosly and unsteadily, will either be not minded, or not understood.c1700Congreve Ovid's Art of Love Wks. 1773 III. 276 This way and that unsteadily they rove, And, never fix'd, are fugitives in Love.1738Bolingbroke Idea Patriot King (1749) 71 Considering how unsteadily and unsystematically even the best of men are apt often to proceed.1817Coleridge Lay Serm., ‘Blessed are ye’ 37 The cup of sorrow overflows by being held unsteadily.1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun Wks. 1853 III. 60 As idle as the flapping sail that fills unsteadily with the breeze upon a stranded ship.1897E. L. Voynich Gadfly i. vii, The man approached unsteadily along the water side.
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