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hesitate
- IPA[ˈhezəˌtāt]
美式
- v.
  
  pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty；be reluctant to do something
- verb: hesitate, 3rd person present: hesitates, gerund or present participle: hesitating, past tense: hesitated, past participle: hesitated
- 釋義
- 片語
v.
動詞
1. pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty she hesitated, unsure of what to say 同義詞 pause, delay, hang back, wait, shilly-shally, ... 更多dither, stall, temporize, be in two minds, be in a quandary, be in a dilemma, be on the horns of a dilemma, be uncertain, be hesitant, be unsure, be doubtful, be indecisive, equivocate, vacillate, oscillate, waver, have second thoughts, haver, hum and haw, swither, informaldilly-dally, blow hot and cold反義詞 be resolute, be certain
▪ be reluctant to do something he hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive 同義詞 be reluctant, be unwilling, be disinclined, scruple, have misgivings about, ... 更多have qualms about, be ambivalent about, feel uneasy about, shrink from, demur from, hang back from, think twice about, be diffident about, balk at, boggle at反義詞 be willing
片語
he who hesitates is lost