1、kick up

開始（大吵大鬧）

Those customers who have kicked up a fuss have received refunds.

那些大吵大鬧的顧客得到了退款。

They kick up a rumpus and throw things at each other.

他們吵了起來并互相朝對方扔東西。

揚起（灰塵或土）

She shuffled along, kicking up clouds of dust.

她拖著腳走路，帶起一團團灰。

2、stagger

蹣跚;搖晃地走

He lost his balance, staggered back against the rail and toppled over.

他失去平衡，往后趔趄了一下，撞到欄桿摔倒了。

He was staggering and had to lean on the bar.

他走路搖搖晃晃，不得不靠在吧臺上。

勉強維持

Truman allowed him to stagger on for nearly another two years.

杜魯門允許他又硬撐了近兩年。

a government that staggered from crisis to crisis.

在一次又一次危機中勉強維持的政府

使(假期或工作時間)錯開

During the past few years the government has staggered the summer vacation periods for students.

在過去幾年里，政府將學生放暑假的時間相互錯開。

3、constantly

持續不斷的;重復的;一直存在的

She suggests that women are under constant pressure to be abnormally thin...

她暗示說女性總是處在保持身材異常瘦削的壓力之下。

Inflation is a constant threat.

通貨膨脹始終是個威脅。

恒定的;不變的

The average speed of the winds remained constant.

平均風速保持穩定。

恒定物;常數；常量；常項

In the world of fashion it sometimes seems that the only constant is ceaseless change...

在時裝界，有時似乎唯一永恒不變的東西就是不斷的變化。

Two significant constants have been found in a number of research studies.

若干研究已經發現了兩個重要常量。