| 单词 | hesitate |
| 释义 | hes·i·tate intransitive verb 1. a. < the government hesitated before each policy > b. < hesitate at treason > 2. < a glimpse of a deer as it hesitated before disappearing into the underbrush > 3. transitive verb < choose rather to hesitate my opinion than to assert it roundly — J.R.Lowell > Synonyms: < no properly qualified student should hesitate to apply — Official Register of Harvard University > < the young second officer hesitated to break the established rule of every ship's discipline — Joseph Conrad > < she hesitated a minute and then she said, ‘Yes.’ — Dorothy Baker > waver implies hesitation after having seemed to decide and usually suggests weakness or retreat from a decision < the great man, who never wavered in his faith — H.S.Canby > < he was a good student and possessed an unwavering will — Nora Waln > < Henry was in the grip of his own master-passion and he did not waver — Francis Hackett > vacillate implies prolonged hesitation from inability to reach a decision < the … government has been vacillating in its policies on such emigration — Collier's Year Book > < I have vacillated when I should have insisted; temporized when I should have taken definite action — Ngaio Marsh > falter suggests a hesitation or wavering evident in some physical sign of nervousness, lack of courage, or outright fear, as an uncertainty or breaking of the voice < kept the bright excited look upon her face without faltering — F. Tennyson Jesse > < his steps perceptibly falter — Times Literary Supplement > < his eyes did not flinch and his tongue did not falter — Joseph Conrad > |
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