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单词 halting
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Definition of halting in English:

halting

adjectiveˈhɔːltɪŋˈhɔltɪŋ
  • Slow and hesitant, especially through lack of confidence; faltering.

    she speaks halting English with a heavy accent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've found phone conversations with some people can be halting and strained but having text with them is a witty, inspired exchange you hate to have to erase when your memory gets too full.
    • And so the group made their slow and halting way back to Kathor.
    • But since then, progress in the peace process had been halting.
    • And this is an album awash with effortless, halting, careless wordplay.
    • He possesses a rich, warm, sonorous voice, betraying further evidence of his Englishness - a confident, erudite speaker, and yet punctuated with ums, ahs, and halting hesitancy.
    • Kelly was then called before a parliamentary committee, where, in halting, hesitant testimony, he neither fully confirmed nor discredited the BBC story.
    • Ian thought he had offended her, until she began speaking, in slow, halting tones.
    • In the twilight era between the end of the conflict and the halting steps toward a future built around a power-sharing government for Catholics and Protestants, the IRA seems to have carved a new path.
    • The expansion or quality improvement has, however, been halting and has generally lagged behind demand and the population growth rate.
    • His own breathing had been so halting in the last few hours that I thought at first it was probably another false alarm, but no, that was it.
    • Gopinath's words are slow and halting, as he reconstructs for us the sparse and humble details of his life.
    • Her shaking hands cover her mouth and she walks backwards in slow, halting steps.
    • Both as a product and a cause of the indecisive nature of combat, the operational tempo of war-as-process generally moved at a slow and halting pace.
    • Women 57's progress in Irish politics is still slow and halting.
    • But given the political economy of which he was a beneficiary, whatever steps he took to deal with the problem were bound to be halting and contradictory.
    • Among other drawings are four individual pots outlined in red conte on Somerset cream paper, in each of which the line is not flowing but halting.
    • Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency.
    • His English is halting, but his recall remarkably precise.
    • Some of the players have also been deeply unhappy about the media coverage of last Sunday's halting 36-11 victory over Japan in Townsville.
    • However halting, impaired, almost uncommunicative the poem, I still have the perverse sense that the station to which it is tuned, however low, is merriment.
    Synonyms
    hesitant, disjointed, faltering, hesitating, stumbling, stammering, stuttering
    broken, non-fluent, imperfect, laboured
    unsteady, awkward, uneven, faltering, stumbling, limping, hobbling

Derivatives

  • haltingly

  • adverbˈhɔːltɪŋliˈhɔltɪŋli
    • It is also caught between the worst of two political systems: a corrupt, crippled and haltingly reactive Russian Federation and carpet-bagging capitalism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In all the years I have been passing through that way, past that same office, I have never seen the waiting room filled with people - and so haltingly silent.
      • A pattern can now be discerned whereby we are lurching haltingly in the right direction but personally, I would prefer our arrival at a better alternative much earlier than later.
      • I strained my ears to listen and we searched them out - there were 4 or 5 Japanese tourists and a small, slight woman who was speaking haltingly in English.
      • Cigarettes were exchanged, conversations started, first haltingly, than more vividly, in spite of language difficulties.
 
 

Definition of halting in US English:

halting

adjectiveˈhôltiNGˈhɔltɪŋ
  • Slow and hesitant, especially through lack of confidence; faltering.

    she speaks halting English with a heavy accent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among other drawings are four individual pots outlined in red conte on Somerset cream paper, in each of which the line is not flowing but halting.
    • I've found phone conversations with some people can be halting and strained but having text with them is a witty, inspired exchange you hate to have to erase when your memory gets too full.
    • Some of the players have also been deeply unhappy about the media coverage of last Sunday's halting 36-11 victory over Japan in Townsville.
    • Ian thought he had offended her, until she began speaking, in slow, halting tones.
    • However halting, impaired, almost uncommunicative the poem, I still have the perverse sense that the station to which it is tuned, however low, is merriment.
    • Women 57's progress in Irish politics is still slow and halting.
    • The expansion or quality improvement has, however, been halting and has generally lagged behind demand and the population growth rate.
    • Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency.
    • But given the political economy of which he was a beneficiary, whatever steps he took to deal with the problem were bound to be halting and contradictory.
    • Both as a product and a cause of the indecisive nature of combat, the operational tempo of war-as-process generally moved at a slow and halting pace.
    • Kelly was then called before a parliamentary committee, where, in halting, hesitant testimony, he neither fully confirmed nor discredited the BBC story.
    • In the twilight era between the end of the conflict and the halting steps toward a future built around a power-sharing government for Catholics and Protestants, the IRA seems to have carved a new path.
    • Gopinath's words are slow and halting, as he reconstructs for us the sparse and humble details of his life.
    • His English is halting, but his recall remarkably precise.
    • He possesses a rich, warm, sonorous voice, betraying further evidence of his Englishness - a confident, erudite speaker, and yet punctuated with ums, ahs, and halting hesitancy.
    • But since then, progress in the peace process had been halting.
    • And this is an album awash with effortless, halting, careless wordplay.
    • Her shaking hands cover her mouth and she walks backwards in slow, halting steps.
    • And so the group made their slow and halting way back to Kathor.
    • His own breathing had been so halting in the last few hours that I thought at first it was probably another false alarm, but no, that was it.
    Synonyms
    hesitant, disjointed, faltering, hesitating, stumbling, stammering, stuttering
    unsteady, awkward, uneven, faltering, stumbling, limping, hobbling
 
 
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