vacillate
英 [ˈvæsəleɪt]
美 [ˈvæsəleɪt]
v. 观点(或立场等)摇摆; 动摇
过去式：vacillated 现在分词：vacillating 第三人称单数：vacillates 过去分词：vacillated
BNC.33133 / COCA.22784
牛津词典
verb
- 观点（或立场等）摇摆；动摇
to keep changing your opinion or thoughts about sth, especially in a way that annoys other people
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.- 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。 - 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。
- She vacillates between men twice her age and men younger than she...
英英释义
verb
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- the line on the monitor vacillated
- be undecided about something
- He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement
双语例句
- However, while we vacillate between various interpretive literary critical theories, we forget to take into account the artistic and aesthetic value inherent in literary works as a form of art.
但正当我们在各种诠释理论、文学批评理论间游移徘徊之时我们却忽略了文学作品作为一种艺术形式本该具有的艺术和审美价值。 - Vacillate between two opinions
在两种意见之间游移不定 - To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.
磨蹭浪费时间，尤指犹豫不定；闲混或踌躇。 - To undergo frequent abrupt shifts or reversals, as of opinion or emotion; vacillate.
犹豫不决经常突然变换或彻底改变看法或感情；犹豫。 - On the one hand they dislike imperialism, and on the other they fear thorough revolution, and they vacillate between the two.
他们一方面不喜欢帝国主义，一方面又怕革命的彻底性，他们在这二者之间动摇着。 - Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
民族资产阶级当然是动摇的，但是要利用它的积极的一面，要有团结有斗争。 - An elephant walks like this and that. When a typhoon strikes, the wavering elements who cannot withstand it begin to vacillate. That's a law.
大象摇摇摆摆地走着。台风一刮，动摇分子挡不住，就要摇摆，这是规律。 - Meanwhile, your stock price can vacillate up and down on unrelated and seemingly unimportant news.
同时，你的股价可能会因为一些看似不相关和不重要的新闻而上下波动。 - Influenced by the western medicine, the independent existence of traditional Chinese medicine began to vacillate generally.
受西医东渐的影响，传统中医学独立存在的局面逐渐动摇。 - In other historical circumstances, the Chinese national bourgeoisie will vacillate and defect because of its economic and political flabbiness.
由于中国民族资产阶级在经济上、治上的软弱性，在另一种历史环境下，它就会动摇变节。