stumble
stumble 英 [ˈstʌmbl] 美 [ˈstʌmbəl]
v. 绊脚，蹒跚；跌跌撞撞 n. 绊倒；蹒跚而行
进行时:stumbling 过去式:stumbled 过去分词:stumbled 第三人称单数:stumbles 名词复数:stumbles
- To stumble means to nearly fall by tripping or missing a step. When you walk over uneven cobblestones, it’s easy to stumble, so please be careful.
- 请先登录
- v. 绊脚，蹒跚；跌跌撞撞
- n. 绊倒；蹒跚而行
-
1. The child stumbled and fell.
孩子绊了一下，摔倒了。
-
2. I stumbled over a rock.
我在石头上绊了一下。
-
3. We were stumbling around in the dark looking for a candle.
黑暗中，我们东跌西撞地找蜡烛。
-
4. In her nervousness she stumbled over her words.
她因紧张说话结结巴巴的。
-
5. Police have stumbled across a huge drugs ring.
警方无意中发现一个庞大的贩毒集团。
- stumble (n.) 1540s, "act of stumbling," from stumble (v.). Meaning "a failure, false step" is from 1640s.
- stumble (v.) c. 1300, "to trip or miss one's footing" (physically or morally), probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stumla, Swedish stambla "to stumble"), probably from a variant of the Proto-Germanic base *stam-, source of Old English stamerian "to stammer," German stumm, Dutch stom "dumb, silent." Possibly influenced in form by stumpen "to stumble," but the -b- may be purely euphonious. Meaning "to come (upon) by chance" is attested from 1550s. Related: Stumbled; stumbling. Stumbling-block first recorded 1526 (Tindale), used in Romans xiv.13, where usually it translates Greek skandalon.
- 请先登录
0 个回复