- 1結結巴巴地；斷斷續續地
If you do something haltingly, you keep stopping for a short moment and then going on, because you are not sure of yourself. It is used most often of speech: you talk slowly, with little breaks between words, searching for the next one. You can also walk or move haltingly — a step, a pause, another step — when you are nervous, in pain, or just not confident on your feet. It is not a medical word, and it is not rude; it is a quiet, slightly formal way of noticing that the flow is broken. A teacher might say a student answered haltingly. Though actually, the related adjective is the one you hear first: a halting voice, a halting walk. The adverb just tells you how the action went. It does not mean the person has stopped forever — only that they keep needing a moment.
組成halting (stopping and starting, not smooth) + -ly (in that way). Halting comes from halt, ‘to stop’.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
haltinglyadv
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In a halting or limping manner; full of pauses or hesitation.
- He spoke haltingly of his battle with cancer and its affect on his family.
- I just learned how to read Korean this summer and am still new to the language, so I still read and pronounce the words haltingly when I try to read a sentence in Korean. I take over a minute, whereas one with an excellent command of the Korean language would take 12.5 seconds.
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