vacillating

英 [ˈvæsəleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈvæsəleɪtɪŋ]

v.  观点(或立场等)摇摆; 动摇
vacillate的现在分词

现在分词：vacillating　

COCA.41926

柯林斯词典

• VERB 犹豫不定;踌躇;拿不定主意
  If youvacillate betweentwo alternatives or choices, you keep changing your mind.
  1. She vacillates between men twice her age and men younger than she...
     她犹豫不决，不知道是该选择年龄比她大一倍的男人还是比她小的男人。
  2. We cannot vacillate on the question of the party's leadership.
     在党的领导权问题上我们不能动摇。

英英释义

adj

• uncertain in purpose or action
  Synonym:vacillantwavering

双语例句

• Modern character is inconstant, divided, vacillating.
  现代人的个性是无常的，分裂的，摇摆不定的。
• The voters are vacillating between the two candidates.
  选民在两个候选人之间举棋不定。
• Thus we find him caught in the horrible slaughterhouse at Shanghai in1937, unwilling to retreat, unable to come to a decision and vacillating so long that he lost the flower of his army.
  一九三七年淞沪之役，他不愿后撤，长期犹豫不决，举棋不定，以致遭到惨重损失，断送了他最精锐的部队。
• This is risky for the government, which will be accused of vacillating or even caving in to foreign pressure.
  对孟加拉国政府而言，这是存有风险的，孟加拉国政府可能会被指责行事优柔寡断，甚至屈服于外国压力。
• Owing to the loss of big cities and the hardships of war, vacillating elements within our ranks will clamour for compromise, and pessimism will grow to a serious extent.
  我们内部，因大城市的丧失和战争的困难，动摇分子将大倡其妥协论，悲观情绪将严重地增长。
• The two-part statement looked vacillating.
  分成两部分的声明看起来有些畏畏缩缩。
• There are three kinds of patriotism, genuine patriotism, sham patriotism, and half-genuine and half-sham, vacillating, patriotism.
  爱国主义有三种：一种是真爱国主义，一种是假爱国主义，一种是半真半假、动摇的爱国主义。
• Such hirelings and the middle elements vacillating between labour and capital are to be found in trade unions everywhere, and in the struggle we must educate and win over the middle elements, whereas those hirelings guilty of serious crimes should be expelled.
  各地工会均发生此种走狗及动摇于劳资之间的中间分子，我们必须在斗争中教育并争取中间分子，对于有严重罪行的资本家走狗则予以开除。
• The joint naval exercise will calm nerves in Seoul, where continued postponement of the exercise raised questions about whether Washington was vacillating under pressure from China.
  联合海上军演将安抚首尔方面的神经，演习一再推迟曾令韩国某些人士质疑美方是否在中国压力之下举棋不定。
• Five thousand years of Chinese diplomatic history suggest it is more likely to respect a strong state than a weak and vacillating one.
  中国五千年的外交史表明，它更可能尊重一个强国而不是一个孱弱和摇摆不定的国家。