Stumble
['stʌmb(ə)l] or ['stʌmbl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make an error; 'She slipped up and revealed the name'.
(verb.) miss a step and fall or nearly fall; 'She stumbled over the tree root'.
(verb.) walk unsteadily; 'The drunk man stumbled about'.
(verb.) encounter by chance; 'I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant'.
整理:胡安妮塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
(v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
(v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
(v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
(v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
(v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
(n.) A trip in walking or running.
(n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
布兰卡德錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Trip, miss one's footing, make a false step.[2]. Err, do wrong.
n. [1]. Trip, false step.[2]. Error, blunder, failure.
亚历山大校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to strike the feet against something to trip in walking: to light on by chance (with upon): to slide into crime or error.—v.t. to cause to trip or stop: to puzzle.—n. a trip in walking or running: a blunder: a failure.—ns. Stum′bler one who stumbles; Stum′bling-block -stone a block or stone over which one would be likely to stumble: a cause of error.—adv. Stum′blingly.—adj. Stum′bly apt to stumble.
克利福德整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
If you stumble in a dream while walking or running, you will meet with disfavor, and obstructions will bar your path to success, but you will eventually surmount them, if you do not fall.
整理:桑娅
例句/造句/用法:
- I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Well, it is too bad,--I won't again; but I do like to hear the droll little image stumble over those big words! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Without philosophy we stumble along. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Today we may go out and stumble upon a lion which is over-timid--he runs away from us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was a stumble on the threshold at starting--it was a flaw in the evidence which told fatally against us. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I put it to one side for fear some one will stumble upon it, intelligently; I respond to a meaning which the thing has. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Phaidor-- she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, Phaidor already is yours. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- She took a little clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled, and threw it in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mr. Grant Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we stumbled after him as best we could. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- A man stumbled against him as he turned away, who mumbled some maudlin apology. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- By St Dunstan, said Gurth, as he stumbled up the dark avenue, this is no Jewess, but an angel from heaven! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And that stumbling-block he never got over. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A great warrior and yet a stumbling little child. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But the one great stumbling-block lay in my want of capital. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Brute-like, he saw without perceiving; and, stumbling forward, poured out a tumbler of brandy, and drank half of it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But by-and-by we shall meet with plenty of stumbling-blocks, no doubt. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- His blushes, his stumbles, his awkwardness, and the number of feet which he crushed as he went back to his place, who shall describe or calculate? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
整理:莫顿