stagger
To sway unsteadily, reel, or totterTo sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.: In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
» Tom staggered home from the bar.
Том поковылял домой из бара.
Значение
значений: 8To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
(непереходный)In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
She began to stagger across the room.
wackeln, wanken, taumeln
шата́тьсяšatátʹsja
(переходный)To cause to reel or totter.
The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
(непереходный)To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
The enemy staggers.
Doubt, waver, be shocked.
(непереходный)To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
zweifeln, wanken
колеба́тьсяkolebátʹsja
(переходный)To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
(переходный)To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
(переходный)To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
(переходный)To schedule in intervals or at different times.
We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
- to arrange in a systematic order
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
Примеры
предложений: 61Tom staggered home from the bar.
Том поковылял домой из бара. — TheWyld
Tom staggered and fell.
Том зашатался и упал. — odexed
The difference is staggering.
Разница поразительная. — odexed
I staggered and fell.
Я пошатнулся и упал. — odexed
Tom staggered out of the room.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 2
По значениям 3
Происхождение
From Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with diaFrom Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
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Формы
staggers, staggering, staggered, staggeredСинонимы
синонимов: 7Однокоренные
связанных слов: 15Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени