Hesitated的意思|Hesitated的解释-里氏词典

hesitated ['heziteitid;'hɛzəˌtetid]

犹豫；踌躇；迟疑；停顿（hesitated是hesitate的过去式）

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.

Mr. Marshall, towering over his friend, looked down, hesitated, then slipped his arm around Mr. Brennan's narrow shoulders.
After all, this was a place where, according to one local critic, "A dancer had practically to fall on her backside for the audience to notice anything was wrong or for the administration to care." Older and wiser types might have hesitated.
They have not hesitated, however, to point an accusing finger at the recording industry.
When Roberts first offered to donate the Post, some university trustees hesitated out of concern that it would draw talent from the student newspaper, The Branding Iron.
"I thought he had it down," Mr. Morrow says, "but when he got to the speech he hesitated and stumbled over it."
"But investors in general hesitated to buy," said Shigeru Akiba of UBS Phillips & Drew International.
The proposal by leftist rebels to postpone the March 19 presidential election to allow them time to participate appeared doomed by last weekend, though all involved hesitated to say so publicly.
In building his new team, Mr. Wolf hasn't hesitated to look to other airlines.
"It's the kind of thing that another newspaper owner might have hesitated about," says Bruce Thorp, an analyst with Lynch, Jones & Ryan.
Bankers abroad aren't lining up to sink money into Mexico either, as evidenced by the recent Bush administration debt-relief initiative that nearly foundered when bankers hesitated to ante up new loans.
"Platinum rose above $585 but hesitated at around $588," he observed.
The West German central bank has shown an increasing desire to raise short-term rates, but it has hesitated to act unless the Fed moves first.
Marrying Charlie meant excommunication so to me it is still astonishing that I never hesitated, that from the start I was prepared to rebel against mother and Mother Church and anyone else who tried to come between us," she writes.
When Col. North hesitated at one point, Mr. Sullivan interjected sarcastically, "He's looking for tricks, Mr. Liman."
Until now the League has hesitated because Mr Bossi fears early elections and has failed to secure an alternative alliance.
Bronstein said a separate currency would allow for price reform. Many state-set prices have no relation to costs in the Soviet Union, but the Kremlin has hesitated to eliminiate hidden subsidies of food and housing for fear of mass unrest.
Despite the importance Israel places on its relations with Egypt, Israeli officials had hesitated to open the tightly guarded border to permit thousands of Egyptians to pass through daily.
Many have not hesitated to direct the supply of credit to particular sectors.
Mr. Giuliani hesitated to call the case the most important against the Mafia.
Others had hesitated to attack North because of his war record. But not prosecutor John Keker, who was _ like North _ wounded as a Marine officer in Vietnam.
Dr. Bruce Wintroub of the University of California in San Francisco called the mast cell conclusion a "reasonable hypothesis." But he hesitated to agree that Murphy's research proves a stress-immunity link.
At one point, he said, he hesitated "and they reached down and hit me hard on the ankles," said Romero.
The Rev. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern Baptist Christain Life Commission, told seminary students that Southern Baptists had hesitated to deal with social problems because of fear of being criticized for segregation.
Amman hesitated to implement U.N.-ordered sanctions on trade with Iraq, until August its main trading partner.
While Japanese auto makers haven't hesitated to raise prices in recent years, they now have an opening to undercut Big Three models because of their U.S. based factories.
The nation's largest retailers reported mixed September sales results as Americans spent freely on clothing last month but hesitated about expensive items like home appliances.
Asked how he would respond to an offer from the all-but-certain nominee for the vice presidency, Thornburgh hesitated before replying: "That's a presumptuous kind of a statement to make.
Some economists hesitated to attribute the March increase in producer prices to the dollar, however.
Everyone knew George Washington would hold that office and hesitated to speak in front of him.
So long as the church says that women cannot adequately represent Christ at the altar then our theology is open to question.' Is the gender of God a separate question from whether women should be priests or not? She hesitated.

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