lurch

pronunciation

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  • vi.
    蹒跚而行,颠簸着行进
    摇晃
  • n.
    突然倾斜
    挫折

Word Origin

lurch 困境,危难 lurch 倾斜,摇晃,蹒跚而行

来自中古英语lurch,一种棋盘游戏,来自luren,等待,潜藏,埋伏,词源同lour,lurk.比较poke. 词源不详,航海术语,用来指船在风浪中剧烈摇晃并倾斜,可能来自lurch,困境,危险。

Example

1. Otherwise , we 'll lurch from crisis to crisis - and the crises will get bigger and bigger .
如若不然,我们将在不同的危机之间蹒跚前行,而灾难规模也将越来越大。
2. At worst it could cause growth to lurch upwards before tumbling again , with all the attendant uncertainty that entails .
最坏情况下,可能导致经济蹒跚上行,而后再次重挫,并伴随着由此带来的所有不确定性。
3. But they have grown more sympathetic to industry concerns that investors would shun floating-nav funds , leaving borrowers in the lurch .
然而,他们更加同情业界的关注:投资者避开浮动基金资产净值,使得借贷人举步蹒跚。
4. But the upward lurch in russia 's taxes seems particularly rough on the country 's brewers , 80 % of which are wholly or partly foreign-owned .
但是俄罗斯的蹒跚而上的税收貌似对这个国家的啤酒商异常苛刻,而这些啤酒商的80%都是外资或部分外资企业。
5. Alexei kudrin , a former finance minister who has sided with the call for early elections , says a lurch to the left could be a necessary evil on the path to democracy .
前财政部长阿里克谢库德林也支持提前进行议会选举,他表示蹒跚走在路上的左倾可能是民主道路上的必犯之错。

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