oscillate的过去式是：oscillated。oscillate的英英释义是Verb:be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action;"He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"move or swing from side to side regularly;"the needle on the meter was oscillating"。oscillate的意思是v.振动；摆动；彷徨；犹豫。
一、词典解释点此查看oscillate的详细内容
1.摆动；（大小）来回变化
If an objectoscillates, it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller.
oscillate的意思
e.g. 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.（水平、价值等）波动，浮动
If the level or value of somethingoscillates between one amount and another, it keeps going up and down between the two amounts.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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.（情绪、态度或行为）摇摆
If youoscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again.
e.g. 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。
二、网络解释
1. 振荡：然而,当微中子穿越物质的过程中,它们会变换形式,或称之为「振荡(oscillate)」;振荡的大小则与物质的电子密度有关,电子密度又与此处全部物质的平均密度有关,因此科学家可以藉由精密测量微中子的振荡模式来决定地球内部的物质密度.
2. 振动：而Torres的弧型面板的弯度是来自于扇型力木(fan-struts)、琴桥(bridge)、和组装的技巧(如中间挖洞的工作板solera使用),使弧型面板(domingsoundboard)能像横隔膜(diaphragm)一样上下来回振动(oscillate).
3. oscillate的近义词
3. 摇摆：正是这一形象使人们选用,这根本正是对应著:重大成功是来自那不可知的因素.到底是时势造英雄还是英雄造时势,其实两者都各占其说服力的理据,然而,真正的内核是,这句说话根本是一句摇摆(oscillate)的话语,若果它不再在两者间摇摆,
4. oscillate的翻译
4. 动摇,犹豫:犹豫不决v.振荡：indurate v.坚硬 |oscillate 动摇,犹豫:犹豫不决v.振荡 | vacillate v.犹豫不定
三、例句
The price of grain slightly oscillated last year.
去年的谷物价格略有波动。
A pendulum oscillates.
摆锤能摆动。
Manic depressives oscillate between depression and elation.
躁狂抑郁症患者抑郁与躁狂交替发作。
He oscillates between political extremes.
他的政治观点在两个极端之间摇摆不定。
四、经典引文
Look at the waves oscillating hither, thither on the beach.
出自：Carlyleoscillate的相关近义词
vacillate、swing、fluctuate、alternate、undulate、waver、hesitate、blow hot and cold、dither、equivocate、flap、vibrate、hover
oscillate的相关临近词
oscillation、Oscar、oscillate freely、oscillate strength、oscillated spray line、oscillated pipe sinking pile