falter

/'fɒ:ltә/

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📖 中文释义

  1. vt. 支吾地说
  2. vi. 支吾, 蹒跚地走
  3. n. 颤抖, 支吾, 踌躇

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

过去式 faltered现在分词 faltering第三人称单数 falters过去分词 faltered

💬 双语例句

  1. Yet Mexico’s NAFTA experience should make us extremely cautious about such prognostications. We have seen even more comprehensive reforms falter.

    但从墨西哥的NAFTA经验看,我们应该非常谨慎地对待这样的预测。 我们曾目睹过更加全面的改革以失败告终。 能源改革会再一次只是昙花一现吗?

  2. The economic and social returns decline and money dries up, setting the stage for a debt crisis. A recent IMF study finds that, after some early positive effects, most public-investment drives falter.

    我们知道,公共投资的上调,正如大宗商品繁荣那样,常常以悲剧结尾。 一旦经济和社会收益下降,资金枯竭,债务危机就会随之而来。 国际货币基金组织最近的研究发现,在取得一些早期的积极效应后,大部分公共投资的驱动力会逐渐消失。

  3. Developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, seem awestruck by this possibility. China’s official news agency, Xinhua, has even suggested that as the West’s democracies falter, “enlightened Chinese democracy” could offer a path forward.

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

falter job creationfalter enlightenedfalter everyonebeginning to faltercontinue to falterfalter their policies
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. v. be unsure or weak
  2. v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way