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单词 seesaw
释义
seesaw
(ssɔː ) also see-saw
Word forms: seesaws , seesawing , seesawed
1. countable noun
A seesaw is a long board which is balanced on a fixed part in the middle. To play on it, a child sits on each end, and when one end goes up, the other goes down.
There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
In a seesaw situation, something continually changes from one state to another and back again.
...a seesaw price situation.
...the seesaw way of politics.
Seesaw is also a noun.
Marriage, however, is an emotional seesaw.
3. verb
If someone's emotions seesaw, or a particular situation seesaws, they continually change from one state to another and back again.
The Tokyo stock market see-sawed up and down. [VERB]
Synonyms: alternate, swing, fluctuate, teeter  
Translations:
Chinese: 跷跷板
Japanese: シーソー
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