seesaws

英 [ˈsiːsɔːz]

美 [ˈsiːsɔːz]

n.  动摇; 跷跷板(戏); 上下动; 前后动
v.  交替; 涨落; 动摇; (温度等)升降
seesaw的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 跷跷板
  Aseesawis a long board which is balanced on a fixed part in the middle. To play on it, a child sits on each end, and when one end goes up, the other goes down.
  1. There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
     游乐场上有一处沙坑、一块跷跷板和一个秋千架。
• ADJ 来回往复的;拉锯式的
  In aseesawsituation, something continually changes from one state to another and back again.
  1. ...a seesaw price situation.
     价格来回波动
  2. ...the seesaw way of politics.
     政治上的拉锯战
  3. Seesawis also a noun.
     
  4. Marriage, however, is an emotional seesaw.
     然而婚姻是一块感情跷跷板。
• VERB (感情或某种局面)摇摆不定，不断反复，来回波动
  If someone's emotionssee-saw, or a particular situationseesaws, they continually change from one state to another and back again.
  1. The Tokyo stock market seesawed up and down.
     东京股市涨落不定。

双语例句

• Though seasonal flooding for nearly a century has meant that the lake's size fluctuates throughout the year, it now experiences more radical shifts in size as it seesaws between flooding and drought.
  一个世纪以来洞庭湖水都会因为旱涝的季节性转换而起伏，但现在的问题是，洞庭湖旱涝季节水量悬殊急剧，旱季旱灾，汛期涝灾。
• Prices Rise and Fall Debate about Anticipation Seesaws An Analysis and Comment about International Finance during the Second Quarter of 2006
  价格跌宕错落预期争论起伏&2006年第二季度国际金融分析判断
• Their seesaws always went up, but they never came down.
  他们的跷跷板总是起来，但是从不下去。