Lurch

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–noun 

1. an act or instance of swaying abruptly.

2. a sudden tip or roll to one side, 

as 

of a ship or a staggering person. 



3. an awkward, swaying or staggering motion or gait. 



–verb (used without object) 

4. (of a ship) to roll or pitch suddenly.

5. to make a lurch; move with lurches; stagger: The [wounded] man lurched across the room.  



—Synonyms 

5. lunge (衝撲,用刀劍刺戳), reel, totter. (蹣跚,踉蹌)





　 

"Microwaves" are not the only menace. The good folks of Passaic, which is to say the simpletons who patronize Be Kind Rewind, are menaced by the encroaching gentrification—or at least urban renewal—poised to [level] the video store. 



All that history turned to dust. 



Before the bulldozers arrive, however, Jerry's paranoid [attempt] to sabotage the power plant backfire[s]. 



Dressed in tinfoil and lurching like Frankenstein's monster, he returns as a human magnetic force field who both distorts the movie's image and provides its situation when he inadvertently erases all the VHS tapes in the store.



bulldozer

推土機





harness

trot

horse, go at a gait between walk and run

shamble

It stars Jack Black as Jerry, a [shambling], logorrheic loser who lives in a trailer

amble

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat

—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu

Convulsion



dinghy

keel 

hull davit lurch

rakish

(of a vessel) having an appearance suggesting speed.  

a hat worn at a rakish [angle]. (jaunty)

the goofy but rakishly [charming] Chad Faust. (dissolute)

demurrage

Beleaguer