Totter

(verb.) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; 'The drunk man tottered over to our table'.

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• From that day the empire began to totter. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They did not now guess at, and totter on the pathway, divining the mode to please, hoping, yet fearing the continuance of bliss. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For the first time in her life, the strong woman tottered. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Five Popes tottered to the Lateran to die within the space of ten years. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He shuddered and tottered to his feet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her eyes glazed--she tottered--I thought that she would faint. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• An old gray-headed man tottered forward to slake his burning thirst. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She was gone out of the Lock-house as soon as he gave her this permission, and her tottering steps were on the road again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Tottering with weakness, she came forward, and delivered her basket. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Two days later, D'Arnot was tottering about the amphitheater, Tarzan's strong arm about him to keep him from falling. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Thus tottering on the dizzy brink, we were happy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was a little tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled Law Books, all at 9d. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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