人的動作或聲音不穩
卡住發生在一個人身上，而且就在眼前這幾秒鐘。
adjective · B2
Moving, speaking, or acting in a weak and unsteady way, stopping and starting, because you are not sure of yourself or not strong enough to keep going smoothly.
遲疑不穩的
核心畫面
Something is moving forward and then catches. A step that nearly stops before it lands; a voice that thins and breaks off; a business that loses its push. Faltering is that catch. Two things are always true of it: it is still going, and it is no longer smooth. That is why the word carries a sense of danger without saying anything has ended.
可以想成「往前走到一半卡了一下」的樣子：腳差點停住才落地、聲音變細然後斷掉、生意失去衝勁。faltering 畫的就…更多收起
可以想成「往前走到一半卡了一下」的樣子：腳差點停住才落地、聲音變細然後斷掉、生意失去衝勁。faltering 畫的就是那個卡住的瞬間。它永遠同時成立兩件事——還在動，而且已經不順了。所以這個字帶著「危險」的味道，卻沒有說任何東西已經結束。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives faltering as falter + -ing, so the adjective is simply the picture of faltering held still and put in front of a noun.
Wiktionary 記載 faltering 由 falter 加 -ing 構成，所以這個形容詞就是把「頓住」那個動作定格，放到名詞前面來描述它。
Wiktionary entry 'faltering' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1330417535), supplied in the evidence packet.
Two branches
事情的勢頭變弱
同一個卡住，拉長成幾個月或幾年：不是一步，是一段走勢。
adjective · B2
Becoming weaker and less successful than before, so that it may soon stop or fail. It describes things that are still going but are clearly losing strength, such as talks, a business, an economy, or a team.
走下坡的
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
falteringadj
- 1
hesitant, halting
falteringnoun
- 1
hesitancy
- But it is the doubt thrown on the prospect of arrival, the falterings of purpose and belief, the renewals of hope that give the novel its drive and energy.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。