staggering

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動詞

staggering

1. stagger 的現在時分詞和動名詞

形容詞

staggering (比較級 more staggering，最高級 most staggering)

1. 驚人的，震撼的

   近義詞: incredible、overwhelming、amazing

   The army suffered a staggering defeat.

   軍隊遭受了一次慘烈的失敗。

   • 1960 December，Voyageur，「The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland」, in Trains Illustrated，第 754 頁:

     It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.

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2. 晃動的，搖搖晃晃的

衍生詞彙

• staggeringly

名詞

An example of the animation technique "staggering" as seen in "The Dover Boys" (1942, dir. Chuck Jones)
動畫「The Dover Boys」（1942年，Chuck Jones執導）中使用反覆播放的技術的示例

staggering (可數和不可數，複數 staggerings)

1. 蹣跚，踉蹌
   • 1837，「Memoirs of Mirabeau」, in The Westminster Review，第 26 卷，第 436 頁:

     There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]

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2. 震驚，震撼
   • 1738，Ebenezer Erskine，The Annals of Redeeming Love:

     But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory […]

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3. （動畫中）反覆播放某幾幀（來強調角色使力）

參考資料

• 「staggering」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.