teeter
teeter 英 [ˈti:tə(r)] 美 [ˈtitɚ]
vi. 摇晃；玩跷跷板；步履蹒跚；摇摇欲坠；岌岌可危 vt. 使…摇摆；使…上下晃动 n. 跷跷板；摇摆
进行时:teetering 过去式:teetered 过去分词:teetered 第三人称单数:teeters 名词复数:teeters
- To teeter is to waver or sway a bit from lack of balance. When people first learn to ride a bicycle, they inevitably teeter for a while before becoming more skilled and confident.
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- vi. 摇晃；玩跷跷板；步履蹒跚；摇摇欲坠；岌岌可危
- vt. 使…摇摆；使…上下晃动
- n. 跷跷板；摇摆
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1. The children often teeter in the park.
孩子们常在公园玩跷跷板。
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2. Fixed the dining room table so it doesn’t teeter?
修理了餐厅的桌子使它不再摇晃？
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3. America may now teeter back and forth, with men predominant in the summers and women in the winters.
美国的劳动力市场现在就像是一上一下的跷跷板：男性在夏天占支配地位，女性在冬天占支配地位。
- teeter (v.) 1843, "to seesaw," alteration of Middle English titter "move unsteadily," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse titra "to shake, shiver, totter, tremble," from Proto-Germanic *ti-tra- (source also of German zittern "to tremble"). Meaning "move unsteadily, be on the edge of imbalance" is from 1844. Noun teeter-totter "see-saw" is attested from 1905 (earlier simply teeter, 1855, and titter-totter in same sense is from 1520s). Totter (n.) "board swing" is recorded from late 14c.; see totter (v.).
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