摇摇欲坠 meaning in English
shake and crumble; be ramshackle; be shaky and unsteady; be tottering; crumbling with a bang; hang by a thread [hair]; in a precarious position; nod to its fall; on the verge of collapse; shaking as if about to fall; teeter; totter
Examples
- The empire's teetering in the balance .
帝国在摇摇欲坠。 - The roof was beginning to fall in .
屋顶摇摇欲坠。 - Look ! there 's a drunken man teetering at the head of the stairs .
看，有个醉汉在楼梯顶那里摇摇欲坠呢。 - When the foe is staggering, that is the time to knock him out .
敌人已经摇摇欲坠，我们就应该及时把他打倒。