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動詞

staggering

1. present participle and gerund of stagger

形容詞

staggering (comparative more staggering, superlative most staggering)

1. Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.

   The army suffered a staggering defeat.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:

     It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.

   • 2023 December 2, Casey Michel, “Opinion: Why crypto was the perfect tool for criminals and kleptocrats”, in CNN‎:

     Binance may be the biggest crypto house exposed, but it is simply the latest in a long line of financial institutions whose lack of money laundering oversight — and willingness to look the other way — has drawn in staggering amounts of illicit wealth and attracted the world’s leading criminal rings and kleptocratic regimes.

2. Lurching, floundering.

派生語

• staggeringly

名詞

staggering (countable and uncountable, plural staggerings)

1. The motion of one who staggers.
   • 1837, “Memoirs of Mirabeau”, in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436:

     There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]

2. The condition of being staggered or amazed.
   • 1738, Ebenezer Erskine, The Annals of Redeeming Love:

     But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory […]

3. The spacing out of various actions over time.
   • 1955 July, “Traffic Congestion in London”, in Railway Magazine, page 444:

     As a result of the recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport, a Government-sponsored scheme for the staggering of working hours in London has been announced.

4. In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort

参照

• “staggering”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.