Hesitate的意思|Hesitate的解释-里氏词典

hesitate ['heziteit]

vi. 犹豫, 迟疑, 踌躇, 支吾, 停顿

hesitate

[ verb ]

pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

<verb.stative>

waffle

waver

Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures

interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

<verb.stative>

pause

The speaker paused

Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hesitated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Hesitating}.] [L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare,
intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold
fast. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gaze}, {Adhere}.]
1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in
suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he
hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often
hesitate in forming a judgment. --Pope.

2. To stammer; to falter in speaking.

Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter;
stammer.

Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. t.
To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant
manner. [Poetic & R.]

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. --Pope.

"We're all walking around with loaded weapons right now and if the need comes to use them we won't hesitate," said Sgt. Richard Hall, 27, of Jacksonville, N.C.
Ashley Deloach didn't hesitate when the teacher asked her class to draw what they wanted for Christmas.
Many weather researchers hesitate to pronounce any conclusion on global warming, pointing out that too little is known about the threat to make a judgment.
But Mr. Greenspan didn't hesitate last Wednesday to criticize Assistant Treasury Secretary Michael Darby.
"Never hesitate to sacrifice everything to stay faithful to Christ," the pope implored the crowd in Portuguese.
The president said if Congress produced something he deemed unsatisfactory, he would not hesitate to step in. The administration iprompt it to take action, or even a position, on a program Bush a candidate.
Mr. Abramson says he won't hesitate to abandon the project if he can't strengthen the Minnesota company's profit margins.
On Thursday, Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said in the United Nations that "everyone should know that we will not hesitate to use force" to protect Soviet citizens still in Iraq.
The source estimated that no more than one-third of Central Committee members will be opposed or hesitate before approving the decision.
Chris Van Allsburg, who recently shared in one of the largest advances ever paid for a children's book, didn't hesitate when asked to cite an important influence on his work.
Every politician who knows the road to election is the low one won't hesitate to take it.
Myerson & Kuhn makes plain, too, that it won't hesitate to raid other firms for clients or lawyers, a practice that is shunned by more traditional law firms but that was common at Finley Kumble.
Industry officials suggested that Saddam Hussein had ordered the fires set in the field more as a signal to the U.S.-led forces that he won't hesitate to try to destroy Kuwait's other larger and strategically more important fields.
"However, if there's some fundamental factor that has you worried that the stock will come down, I wouldn't hesitate to sell," he says.
Fred doesn't hesitate to attribute the improvement in his grades _ and outlook _ to Wilson's influence.
"They said, `no.'" None of the risks seem to be making airport officials hesitate.
The letters also reveal a sureness of taste and judgment, remarkable for so young a critic, which he did not hesitate to express even when it was very negative.
On Monday, Bush said in San Francisco that he would not hesitate to use force if provoked.
On the other hand, some of the software houses to which we might expect to look for help, such as Intuit and Sage, hesitate to get involved with this murky subject.
I am not sure, or hesitate to guess, what interactive idea there is behind this. Finally, two films for pure, innocent enjoyment.
Claytor leads by being vociferously demanding, and he doesn't hesitate to chew people out," says Timothy Gardner, a vice president.
Sumita said the bank would not hesitate to take action on interest rates to defend the prevailing price stability in the country.
If I am not satisfied, I will not hesitate to exercise my power to remove appointees." By the end of 1988, more than 15,000 people were in jail nationwide, government figures show.
Corporate executives who've reached the top believe their business practices are more ethical now than a decade ago, generally would hesitate to promote a homosexual to management ranks and prefer navy blue suits with red power ties.
But the former president said when he learned through the Israelis that the group seeking the weapons did not support terrorist activities, he didn't hesitate.
When Washington's practitioners of public relations and campaign consulting were asked what they would tell the visiting Soviet president if he were a client, they didn't hesitate.
Hard-line members of Congress have urged Gorbachev to declare emergency rule in unstable republics, and the Soviet leader has said he would not hesitate to do so.
You can bet Wax won't hesitate to ask the most probing posers.
Instead he must be an unhurried, placid and cerebral person who will not hesitate, should his reason dictate, to cut national losses and quit the cause.
The president warned that "if this does not prove to be the case, I will not hesitate to reimpose the partial sanctions."

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