oscillate

verb

1. （情感或行为）摇摆，波动，变化
   to keep changing from one extreme of feeling or behaviour to another, and back again
   1. Her moods oscillated between depression and elation.
      她的情绪时而抑郁，时而亢奋。
2. 摆动；振动
   to keep moving from one position to another and back again
   1. Watch how the needle on the dial oscillates.
      仔细看仪表盘上的指针如何摆动。
3. 波动；振荡
   to change in strength or direction at regular intervals

1. VERB 摆动；（大小）来回变化
   If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller.
   1. I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating.
      我查看了那根音量指针是否在摆动。
2. VERB （水平、价值等）波动，浮动
   If the level or value of something oscillates between one amount and another, it keeps going up and down between the two amounts.
   1. The share price has oscillated between a five-year high of 157.25p in 1997 and this year's low of 91.5p...
      股价一直在1997年创下的5年间最高点157.25便士和今年的最低点91.5便士之间浮动。
   2. Oil markets oscillated on the day's reports from Geneva.
      石油市场因当天来自日内瓦的报道出现了起伏。
   3. ...an oscillating signal of microwave frequency.
      微波频率的波动信号
3. VERB （情绪、态度或行为）摇摆
   If you oscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again.
   1. The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
      该共和国总统施政风格时而大胆冒进，时而谨慎务实。

1. I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating.
   我查看了那根音量指针是否在摆动。
2. Oil markets oscillated on the day's reports from Geneva.
   石油市场因当天来自日内瓦的报道出现了起伏。
3. The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
   该共和国总统施政风格时而大胆冒进，时而谨慎务实。
4. Because of their inertia, the electrons will overshoot and oscillate around their equilibrium positions with a characteristic frequency known as the plasma frequency.
   因为电子的惯性，它们将冲过平衡位置，并以特征频率围绕它们的平衡位置振荡。
5. Not unlike Wall Street, Western commentary on China tends to oscillate between extremes of fear and greed.
   面对中国，西方评论界与华尔街相差不大，总是倾向于在恐惧与贪婪这两个极端之间摇摆。
6. To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.
   改变固定的环境、位置或工作模式或在其附近随意摇摆。
7. I feel like I'm going cross-eyed as I oscillate between the code and the comment.
   我觉得在代码和注释之间看来看去搞得我很晕。
8. In the case of homogeneous broadening only one mode can normally oscillate.
   对于均匀加宽的情况，只有一个模能正常地振荡。
9. Pin4 is the VCO output, which will oscillate regardless of input.
   引脚4是压控振荡器的输出，这将振荡无论投入。
10. They reach you, your eardrum starts to oscillate with the same frequency and you hear that tone.
    你们听到声音，你的鼓膜以相同频率，开始震动，然后听到我的音调。
11. Be sure your Gunn diode doesn't oscillate at audio or HF as well.
    确信你的耿氏二极管没有同时在音频或高频振荡。
12. In this paper, we give sufficient and necessary condition and some sufficient conditions of oscillate for neutral differential equations with piecewise constant argument.
    研究了一类具有分段常数变元的中立型微分方程组的振动性，并给出了所有解振动的充分必要条件和若干充分条件。
13. Actually, we oscillate between national depression and national euphoria.
    其实，我们在国家抑郁症和国家兴奋之间摇摆不定。
14. The frequency at which they oscillate depends on the strength of the magnetic field.
    它们振荡时的频率取决于所在磁场的强度。
15. On an oscilloscope, you can see an electrical current oscillate up and down.
    在示波器上面你可以看到一股电流上下振动。
16. If the mass is displaced from its rest position and released, it will oscillate up and down.
    质量如果离开它的静止位置后再释放，将作上下振荡。
17. Oscillate between work and rest every day.
    每天都有规律地工作与休息。
18. The electric and magnetic fields oscillate perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the direction the light is traveling.
    它的电场与磁场以互相垂直的方向振荡，并垂直于光的行进方向。
19. In order to get my relative error down, I will oscillate ten times.
    为了减小我的，反应误差，我会振荡十次。
20. The electron oscillates parallel to the electric field and at the same frequency, but it does not necessarily oscillate in phase with the light wave.
    该电子以相同的频率来作平行于电场的振动，但此振动不见得和原光波同相位。
21. That function does not appear to oscillate, and so is not likely to be audible.
    该函数没有出现振荡，很有可能它不是可听的音乐函数。
22. To swayfrom one side to the other; oscillate.
    摇摆从一边摇向另一边；摇动。
23. Oscillate along the direction of the waves.
    沿波的方向振动。
24. He seemed to oscillate between very drunk and icy sober.
    他似乎是在酩酊大醉和完全清醒之间摆来摆去。
25. A given neutrino can, however, oscillate between these flavours.
    一个指定的中微子仍然可以在这些“味”之间振荡。
26. The motors and drive units on these two types of polisher's oscillate in an eccentric circular motion.
    圆径及偏圆度之公差发动机和转速单位在这两种抛光机上的振蒎是一个偏圆心的运动。
27. I don't want to* I don't want to oscillate it ten times.
    我并不想。，我不想来回震荡十次。
28. When protons are placed in a magnetic field, they oscillate.
    将质子置于磁场中时，它们就会振动。
29. So the liquid now is here, and then I release it, and it will start to oscillate.
    现在液体在这里，我松开，它开始摆动。

verb

1. move or swing from side to side regularly
   1. the needle on the meter was oscillating

   Synonym:    vibrate

2. be undecided about something
   1. He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement

   Synonym:    hovervibratevacillate