vacillate: 犹豫; to waver in mind, will, or feeling
1) to sway physically; to be indecisive
2) to sway or fluctuate; to waver in feeling or hesitate in making a decision
3) to waver; to sway back and forth; to fluctuate or oscillate;
4) to waver in attitude; show indecision
5) to waver; to sway indecisively
相近词汇: oscillate, stagger, swing; alternate, hedge, pause, dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, waver
vacillation resolution
vacillate equipoise, stand firm, resolve firmly, resolute
vacillate : indecision = bristle : anger
1. The customer held up the line as he vacillated between ordering chocolate chip or rocky road ice cream.
2. Roberta vacillated for so long that by the time she decided to go to the show, the tickets were all sold out.
3. It is not unusual for ones position on an issue to vacillate as more and better information becomes available.
4. Homer and Marge often vacillate on where to go for their summer vacation.
vacillating, vacillation
-equipoise:
to equal or offset in weight; balance. Vacillate: to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger.
vacillation constancy
vacillation impetuosity
vacillation motionless balance
vacillation pertinacity
vacillation decisiveness, pertinacity
pompous : pontificate irresolute : vacillate 同义
unswerved : vacillate capricious/whimsical/headlong : deliberate 反义
irresolute: vacillate pompous: pontificate
vacillate decisiveness, equipoise
resolute
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