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小词详解 | dither
dither 英 [ˈdɪðə(r)] 美 [ˈdɪðər]
While America dithered, Britain set a good example in last week’s budget.
美国还在犹豫不决之际,英国在上周的预算中做出了好榜样。
——《经济学人》But if you need to click on an inordinate number of buttons and links, or dither over what to do next, the designer has failed.
但如果你需要点击过多的按钮和链接,或者费神思考下一步该怎么做,那么它的设计师就已经失败了。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 犹豫不决
别犹豫了,赶快决定你想要哪个!
Stop dithering and choose which one you want!我们仍在犹豫要不要结婚。
We're still dithering over whether to marry.
我拿不定主意邀请谁。
I'm in a dither about who to invite.吉迪恩紧张得有些不知穿什么衣服去参加面试才好。
Gideon is in a bit of a dither about what to wear for the interview.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.
想象一下,一颗巨大的小行星正在与地球直接相撞。这相当于我们现在面临的气候变化,然而我们却还在犹豫不决。
hesitate: pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty waver: be undecided between two opinions or courses of action; be irresolute teeter: be unable to decide between different courses; waver