One writer suggests grouping games into four classes depending upon the elements of competition, chance, mimicry, or vertigo (motion alone, i. e. , teeter-tottering).(一位作家建议根据竞争、博彩、模仿和平衡(如跷跷板等运动)的要素将游戏分成四类。)
Fixed the dining room table so it doesn't teeter?(修理了餐厅的桌子使它不再摇晃?)
Many have been driven to extinction, and many more now teeter on the brink.(许多物种已经被逼入绝境,更多的如今踉跄在生死之间。)
Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter. "From 'Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter,'" pp. 315-24.(朵布斯,贝蒂乔提特。《从牛顿的炼金术到他的物质理论》,315-24页。)
An airplane is like a teeter-totter. When the pilot moves the nose of the plane up or down, the seats in the extreme front and back are going to move a greater distance.(飞机就好像是一个跷跷板,当飞行员让飞机昂头飞行或者俯冲飞行的时候在最前面和最后面的位置就会有较大幅度的摆动。)
Hyde shifted his weight and felt himself teeter forward, beginning to overbalance.(海德挪了一下身子便感到自己往前晃动,开始失去平衡了。)
Insurance firms teeter on the brink.(保险公司正处于危险的边缘。)
The performance of teeter board was very wonderful, and drew rounds of applause.(晃板的演出很精彩,引来人们阵阵的鼓掌。)
the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.(州预算仍有盈余,而加州、纽约州还在破产边缘摇晃。)
Seagulls teeter on the parapet in front of her, boats go by.(海鸥在她面前的护墙上摇摇摆摆地走着,船只从她身边驶过。)