| 单词 | falter |
| 释义 | fal·ter I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the naked stranger falters out of the thicket and drops to his knees — Dudley Fitts > b. < being eighty-nine, he had a chair … but … he stood without complaint or faltering — Joseph Bryan > < he could feel his legs falter > c. < her eyes faltered away from his — Erle Stanley Gardner > < forced to bail out of faltering airplanes over the Alps — National Geographic > 2. < his voice faltered just the least bit — Joseph Conrad > 3. a. < never faltered in his determination to make good > < warned the Western democracies to suffer no division or faltering in their duty — Current Biography > b. < his powers of musical invention never falter or flag > < when a symbolist poem falters for a moment it is irretrievably lost — Burns Singer > < Britain's vaunted prosperity was faltering — Time > transitive verb < falter an excuse > Synonyms: see hesitate II. < I managed to do what was required of me without falter — Lonnie Coleman > especially < a falter in her voice > |
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