dithered

英 [ˈdɪðəd]

美 [ˈdɪðərd]

v.  犹豫不决; 踌躇
dither的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 犹豫不决;踌躇
  When someonedithers, they hesitate because they are unable to make a quick decision about something.
  1. We're still dithering over whether to marry...
     我们仍在犹豫要不要结婚。
  2. If you have been dithering about buying shares, now could be the time to do it.
     如果你一直在犹豫是否要买股票，现在或许是买的时候了。

双语例句

• He dithered for ages before asking her if she would go out with him.
  他在问她愿不愿意跟自己交往之前，紧张了许久。
• Detroit, meanwhile, stumbled over a period of decades into irreversible insolvency because its elected officials dithered and dissembled and argued, instead of undertaking tough measures to close fiscal gaps.
  与此同时，几十年来底特律也一步步走上了债务泥沼的不归路：民选官员犹犹豫豫，遮遮掩掩，百般辩解，却没有采取严厉措施来填补财政缺口。
• Research and Design for Dither Bias System of Mechanically Dithered Ring Laser Gyroscopes
  机械抖动激光陀螺抖动偏频系统的研究与设计
• Meanwhile, Europe has dithered as its economy has ground to a halt, and many major emerging economies have slowed.
  与此同时，随着经济逐渐停滞，欧洲犹豫了，许多主要新兴经济体也放慢了增速。
• The politicians dithered, scared of lavishing taxpayers 'money on such an unpopular cause. Only when the financial system was close to implosion did they come up with a response, an across-the-board injection of public money into the major city banks.
  政治家们不知所措，他们害怕把纳税人的钱浪费在如此不受欢迎的理由上。直到金融体系濒临崩溃时，他们才做出了回应，利用公共资金向主要城市银行进行全面注资。
• Despite the signs, Congress, the White House and the Federal Reserve all dithered while the subprime disaster spread.
  尽管出现了这些迹象，但美国国会、政府和美联储在次贷灾难扩散过程中都显得优柔寡断。
• Something similar happened while the West dithered over Bosnia, creating an opening for veterans of the Western-backed jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
  这种情况似曾相识，西方当年在波斯尼亚踌躇不决，结果为西方支持下的圣战分子在阿富汗抵制苏联开创了机会。
• For Japan dithered mightily in tackling its problems.
  而日本则在解决自身问题方面犹豫不决。
• While his colleagues in the US and Europe have dithered over what action should be taken to solve the problems caused by collapsing banks, he has been decisive.
  当他美国和欧洲的同僚正对银行倒闭所引起的问题束手无策时，他已经果断行动了。
• The result shows that this filtering method can decrease each random error term of mechanically dithered RLG effectively and improve the accuracy of RLG.
  结果表明：该方法有效降低了机抖激光陀螺的各项随机误差，提高了其使用精度。