stagger
错开,错落有致,踉跄而行,错开的
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Definitions
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- : to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- : to falter or begin to give way, as in an argument or fight.
- : to waver or begin to doubt, as in purpose or opinion; hesitate: After staggering momentarily, he recognized that he had to make a decision.
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- : to cause to reel, totter, or become unsteady: This load would stagger an elephant.
- : to shock; render helpless with amazement or the like; astonish: The vastness of outer space staggers the mind.
- : to cause to waver or falter: The news staggered her belief in the triumph of justice.
- : to arrange in a zigzag order or manner on either side of a center: The captain staggered the troops along the road.
- : to arrange otherwise than at the same time, especially in a series of alternating or continually overlapping intervals: They planned to stagger lunch hours so that the cafeteria would not be rushed.
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Examples
Can SNL stagger on with Seth Meyers of Weekend Update halfway out the door, too?
A miner puts his head down and runs, with a long swinging stride, through places where I can only stagger.
Unless we stagger the hours of medical service provision, all those people will end up in the emergency room.
His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.
The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.
It was the 'Æneid,' and I began at your bookmark and tried to stagger through a page, but it floored me.
The sharper was one of those men who pull themselves together in a bad cause, as they stagger from the blow.
A cry of joy burst from his lips, and he managed to stagger to his feet.
The kneeling figure sprang to his feet with a fierce stagger.
He made several trips, the last of which was to stagger under a huge burden of spruce boughs.