N-COUNT 跷跷板 A seesaw is a long board which is balanced on a fixed part in the middle. To play on it, a child sits on each end, and when one end goes up, the other goes down.
There was a sandpit, a seesaw and a swing in the playground. 游乐场上有一处沙坑、一块跷跷板和一个秋千架。
ADJ 来回往复的;拉锯式的 In a seesaw situation, something continually changes from one state to another and back again.
...a seesaw price situation. 价格来回波动
...the seesaw way of politics. 政治上的拉锯战
Seesaw is also a noun.
Marriage, however, is an emotional seesaw. 然而婚姻是一块感情跷跷板。
VERB (感情或某种局面)摇摆不定,不断反复,来回波动 If someone's emotions see-saw, or a particular situation seesaws, they continually change from one state to another and back again.
The Tokyo stock market seesawed up and down. 东京股市涨落不定。