vacillating
present participle ofvacillate
| 单词 | vacillating |
| 释义 | vacillating present participle ofvacillate vacillate verb[I] disapprovinguk/ˈvæs.ɪ.leɪt/us/ˈvæs.ə.leɪt/to beuncertainwhat to do, or tochangeoften between twoopinions: Hermoodvacillatedbetweenhopeanddespair. Doubt & ambivalence
Examplesofvacillatingvacillating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, his chain of thought is realistically and movingly depicted,vacillatingas it does between hope and despair. From theCambridge English Corpus However, he fails to see that even in a silent film the visual language of cinema can be equallyvacillatingand ambiguous. From theCambridge English Corpus The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples ofvacillatingsounds. From theCambridge English Corpus Social policy itself was increasinglyvacillatingbetween seeing older people as dependent social casualties, and seeing them as individuals capable of exercising choice. From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, the extremes of the diagram meet:vacillatingsound objects and accumulations can be very similar. From theCambridge English Corpus From there on we proceed to increased spectral differentiation, inclusion of elements of contrasting sound spectrum, eventually spectral fluctuations with increasingly irregular pulse, until we arrive at thevacillatingobject. From theCambridge English Corpus But what of the harvest that the country is reaping from this limp andvacillatingpolicy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Among soldiers and sailors and people generally there is an impression thatvacillatingpolitical policies have been our undoing in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been avacillatingpolicy for a great number of years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There are sixvacillatingparagraphs on the subject with no real substance in any one of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Their ideas and approaches to the matter have beenvacillatingfrom month to month. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a question ofvacillating; we wish to see the number of special constables increased. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Their policy has beenvacillatingand uncertain to the last degree in regard to these trade questions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What fills us with alarm is avacillatingpolicy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes party inclinations or natural weakness of character prove too strong and lead to partial orvacillatingdecisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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