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单词 seesaw
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seesaw

Its sound is a seesaw that will throw the piper further into Death, even as it brings the listener into Life.And these men were political prisoners, who knew but what, in the seesaw way of politics, some of them might be in office sometime?The boat's prow tilted up like the high end of a seesaw, hovered for a moment in the air, then dropped into the white current.

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seesaw

British English: seesaw /ˈsiːˌsɔː/ NOUN
A seesaw is 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.
There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground.
  • American English: seesaw
  • Arabic: أُرْجُوحة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: gangorra
  • Chinese: 跷跷板
  • Croatian: klackalica
  • Czech: houpačka podepřená uprostřed
  • Danish: vippe
  • Dutch: wip
  • European Spanish: balancín columpio
  • Finnish: keinulauta
  • French: bascule
  • German: Wippe
  • Greek: τραμπάλα
  • Italian: altalena
  • Japanese: シーソー
  • Korean: 시소
  • Norwegian: dumpehuske
  • Polish: huśtawka
  • European Portuguese: balancé
  • Romanian: balansoar
  • Russian: детские качели в виде доски, уравновешенной в центре
  • Latin American Spanish: columpio
  • Swedish: gungbräde
  • Thai: แผ่นกระดานหก
  • Turkish: tahterevalli
  • Ukrainian: гойдалка
  • Vietnamese: bập bênh

Chinese translation of 'seesaw'

seesaw

(ˈsiːsɔː)

n (c)

  1. 跷(蹺)跷(蹺)板 (qiāoqiāobǎn)

vi

  1. 反复(復)多变(變) (fǎnfù duōbiàn)
(verb) 
Definition
to move up and down or back and forth alternately
The stock-market see-sawed up and down.
Synonyms
alternate
Moments of beauty alternate with slapstick comedy.
swing
The vote could swing again.
fluctuate
Body temperatures can fluctuate when you are ill.
teeter
They are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
oscillate
She oscillated between elation and despair.
go from one extreme to the other

Additional synonyms

in the sense of fluctuate
Definition
to change frequently and erratically
Body temperatures can fluctuate when you are ill.
Synonyms
change,
swing,
vary,
alter,
hesitate,
alternate,
waver,
veer,
rise and fall,
go up and down,
ebb and flow,
seesaw
in the sense of oscillate
Definition
to waver between two extremes of opinion, attitude, or behaviour
She oscillated between elation and despair.
Synonyms
waver,
change,
swing,
shift,
vary,
sway,
alternate,
veer,
ebb and flow,
vacillate,
seesaw
in the sense of swing
Definition
to alter one's opinion or mood suddenly
The vote could swing again.
Synonyms
change,
shift,
vary,
waver,
fluctuate,
oscillate,
see-saw

Nearby words of
seesaw

  • seep
  • seepage
  • seer
  • seesaw
  • seethe
  • segment
  • segregate

Synonyms of 'seesaw'

seesaw

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of teeter
They are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
Synonyms
waver,
wobble,
seesaw,
veer
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