- 1猶豫不決的人、搖擺不定者（尤指投票前尚未表態的人）
A waverer is a person who cannot settle on a decision — who leans one way, then the other, and keeps putting off the moment of choosing. You will meet the word most in and in reporting: before a close vote, journalists count the supporters, the opponents, and the waverers, the ones still not sure. Leaders then "try to win over the waverers", because in a tight vote those undecided people decide everything.
So it is not really a word for a personality; it is a word for where someone stands at this moment, on this question. A person is a waverer about the new law, not a waverer in general.
The feeling of the word is critical, though softly so. It suggests weakness of will rather than honest doubt: someone who ought to have made up their mind by now. If you want to say the same thing , say "undecided voters" or "those still making up their minds". If you want to say it , English has stronger words — ditherer, fence-sitter.
It is a formal, written word. You are unlikely to hear it between friends; in speech people say "he can't make up his mind".
組成waver (to swing back and forth, to be unsteady, to hesitate) + -er (the one who does it). To waver was first about physical movement — a flame wavering, a voice wavering — and then about the mind moving the same unsteady way.
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。
waverernoun
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A person who wavers.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。