It is not translated. See http://www.grecian.net/GREECE/thessaly/trikala/meteora/mette...

Usually, crowned by a monastery and/ or church.

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Note added at 37 mins (2006-12-02 12:04:13 GMT)
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In the second instance I would either use what Vicky suggests or opt for either "the hovering pace", "wavering pace" or something to that effect.

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Note added at 41 mins (2006-12-02 12:08:21 GMT)
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consumer spending has driven economic growth in recent years, so the wavering pace of the. pullback in housing has clouded forecasts for future growth. ...
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As already noted, the hesitant pace of economic activity, as compared with our expectations in early 2002, together with lacklustre confidence, reflects the ...
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Meteoros comes from the preposition ‘meta’ and a rare ancient verb ‘aeiro’ (=lift). It means ‘raised above the ground, suspended in the air’. As a noun, meteoron came to mean ‘any atmospheric phenomenon’ (still current in Greek), and that was the meaning of the Latin meteorum and the original meaning of meteor in English. Later, in Shakespeare, it took the meaning of shooting star.
Today, in Greek, apart from the meaning of ‘suspended in the air’: if someone is meteoros, he is undecided. If a matter is meteoron, it is unresolved. In popular usage, we prefer meteorite (meteoritis) to meteor for the rock from space that enters the earth’s atmosphere.
Meteora in Thessaly (=suspended rocks – nor directly connected to meteors or atmospheric phenomena) [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora] are in the prefecture of Trikala. The Great Meteoron with the monastery of the Transfiguration is the best known of all.
The name Meteoron was given to this rock by Saint Athanasius the Meteorite, founder of the monastery (not the same as the other saint, Athanasius the Athonite).
The Meteoron of Perraivia is in the prefecture of Larissa (east of Trikala) and is a very similar formation. On its top there is a chapel, which is also called the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ.
Finally, the gait of the stork, stately for some, hesitant for others, inspired Theo Angelopoulos, who directed the “Meteoron vima tou pelargou” (translated as “The Suspended Step of the Stork”). And the phrase “meteoron vima” has since been used to describe hesitancy, as in the hesitancy of the stock market («το μετέωρο βήμα της Σοφοκλέους»).