| 单词 | staggering |
| 释义 | staggeringWord family adjectivestaggerednounstaggererstaggeringverbstaggeradverbstaggeringly stag·ger·ing /ˈstæɡərɪŋ/ adjectiveadj SURPRISEDextremely great or surprising 大得惊人的；令人吃惊的 SYN amazing The cost was a staggering $10 million. 费用竟高达 1,000 万美元。 The financial impact on the town was staggering. ► see thesaurus at surprising 对这个镇所造成的财政影响令人惊诧。 —staggeringly adverbadv a staggeringly beautiful landscape 美得不可思议的景色 Examples from the Corpus staggering• In Newcastle, the waiting list is a staggering 10,000, with 800 families on the homeless list.• Apparently, we spend a staggering £2.4 billion a year on food for our pets.• He recently left Wimbledon for Manchester City for a staggering £2.5 million.• A staggering $3 trillion was spent in building the U.S. nuclear arsenal.• In Islington, 127,000 people registered, and there have been 75,000 summonses and a staggering 70,000 liability orders.• Each washing machine cycle, for example, takes a staggering 90 litres, while flushing the toilet uses another nine.• In 1988 the drop-out rate reached a staggering 92 percent.• The success of Marxism in the modern world is quite staggering.• The results of the survey were staggering - over half the children said that they went to school without any breakfast.• Paul had been awkward, but at the promise of a staggering reward, he'd complied.• a staggering rise in crime• Who knows, the evergreen Martina Navratilova may now be poised to add to her staggering total of more than 160 major titles. |
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