Fluctuate

(verb.) be unstable; 'The stock market fluctuates'.

(verb.) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; 'the line on the monitor vacillated'.

(verb.) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern.

录入:温德尔

• Both credit and currency begin to fluctuate wildly with the evaporation of public confidence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Secondly, the wages of labour do not, in Great Britain, fluctuate with the price of provisions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I fluctuate a little; that's the truth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• These things fluctuate very rapidly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The game fluctuated, but the average was in Wildeve's favour. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The game fluctuated, now in favour of one, now in favour of the other, without any great advantage on the side of either. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It fluctuated greatly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These two sets of forces may have fluctuated in this relative effect in the past. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It fluctuates through vast ages. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This does not occur, or only in a very slight degree, with our domesticated productions, which have long been exposed to fluctuating conditions. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• In the latter case the organisation seems to become plastic, and we have much fluctuating variability. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We will not attempt to trace the fluctuating fortunes of the Sassanids during the next three centuries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The broad and clear though cloud-crossed and fluctuating beam of the moon shone on every floor and wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

整理:凯瑟琳