• vt. 蹣跚；使交錯；使猶豫
• vi. 蹣跚；猶豫
• n. 蹣跚；交錯安排
• adj. 交錯的；錯開的

來自古諾斯語 stakra,推，擠，使打轉，來自 Proto-Germanic*stakon,棍子，柱子，來自 PIE*steg, 棍子，柱子，詞源同 stack,stick.-er,表反復。其字面意思可能是用棍子在后面追打或趕，引申 詞義蹣跚，踉蹌，及相關比喻義。

stagger (v.)

mid-15c., "walk unsteadily, reel" (intransitive), altered from stakeren (early 14c.), from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Danish stagra, Old Norse stakra "to push, shove, cause to reel," also "to stumble, stagger," perhaps literally "hit with a stick," from Proto-Germanic *stakon- "a stake," from PIE *steg- (1) "pole, stick." Cognate with Dutch staggelen "to stagger," German staggeln "to stammer." Transitive sense of "bewilder, amaze" first recorded 1550s; that of "arrange in a zig-zag pattern" is from 1856. Related: Staggered; staggering.

1. Truman allowed him to stagger on for nearly another two years.

杜魯門允許他又硬撐了近兩年。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Our management has decided to stagger our working hour.

我們的管理層已決定錯開工作時間.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The unexpected blow did not stagger his resolution.

這個意外打擊并沒有動搖他的決心.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.

stagger和stumble均指不穩的或身不由己的動作.

來自互聯網

5. We can't hold the two meetings at the same time; we must stagger them.

這兩個會不能同時開, 得錯一下.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》