Tumble
['tʌmb(ə)l] or ['tʌmbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.
(verb.) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.
(verb.) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.
(verb.) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying; 'Wash in warm water and tumble dry'.
(verb.) fall suddenly and sharply; 'Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency'.
(verb.) throw together in a confused mass; 'They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern'.
(verb.) roll over and over, back and forth.
(verb.) fall down, as if collapsing; 'The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it'.
校對:雷明顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
(v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
(v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
(v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
(v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
(n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
巴里整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Roll, toss, heave, pitch about.[2]. Fall, be precipitated, fall over.
v. a. [1]. Precipitate, throw headlong.[2]. Disturb, derange, rumple, put in disorder.
安布尔手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fall, topple, precipitate, derange, rumple,[See DISCIPLINE]
整理:昆廷
解釋/意思:
v.i. to fall: to come down suddenly and violently: to roll: to twist the body as a mountebank: to fall rapidly as prices: to go hastily: (slang) to understand twig.—v.t. to throw headlong: to turn over: to throw about while examining: to disorder rumple.—n. act of tumbling: a fall: a rolling over a somersault: confusion.—ns. Tum′ble-bug one of several kinds of scarab鎜id beetles which roll up balls of dung to protect their eggs; Tum′ble-car a one-horse car.—adj. Tum′ble-down dilapidated.—ns. Tum′bler one who tumbles: one who plays any of the feats or tricks of the acrobat or contortionist: a large drinking-glass so called because formerly having a pointed base it could not be set down without tumbling: a kind of domestic pigeon so called from its tumbling on the wing: a kind of greyhound: a kind of spring-latch in a lock preventing the bolt being shot in either direction: a piece attached to the hammer of a firearm lock receiving the thrust of the mainspring and forcing the hammer forward so as to strike and explode the charge: a porpoise: one of a gang of London street ruffians early in the 18th century whose favourite frolic was to set women on their heads: a tumbril: one of a set of levers from which hang the heddles in some looms; Tum′blerful as much as will fill a tumbler; Tum′bler-stand a tray for tumblers as in connection with a soda-water fountain; Tum′bler-tank in plumbing a flush-tank in which water gathers in one chamber before being tilted over so as to discharge its contents; Tum′bler-wash′er a revolving stand fitted with projecting pipes on which tumblers are hung to be washed automatically; Tum′ble-weed a name given to several plants whose globular flowering heads are detached in autumn and rolled about scattering their seed; Tum′bling the act of falling.—adj. Tum′bly uneven.—Tumble in or home to incline in above the extreme breadth of a ship's sides: to fit as a piece of timber into other work: to go to bed; Tumble over to toss about carelessly to upset: to fall over; Tumble to (slang) to comprehend; Tumble up to get out of bed: to throw into confusion.
校對:罗赞
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you tumble off of any thing, denotes that you are given to carelessness, and should strive to be prompt with your affairs. To see others tumbliing,{sic} is a sign that you will profit by the negligence of others.
編輯:韦德
例句/造句/用法:
- The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Come, tumble up now. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He is the man I spoke of just now as being able to tumble me out of this place neck and crop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I tumble down before I get to the old place, at a point where I was all right before, and stop to think. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Well, well, replied Caleb; the castle will tumble about nobody's head. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I put a few shillings in his hand, and as I turned away I heard the roar of laughter which followed his first tumble on the stage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We arrived at a tumble-down old rookery called the Palazzo Simonetti--a massive hewn-stone affair occupied by a family of ragged Italians. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The military Colossus then tumbled, and the Press began to lead mankind. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Everybody laughed and sang, climbed up and tumbled down. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Harold Skimpole's children have tumbled up somehow or other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was undressing in my own room, when Mr. Micawber's letter tumbled on the floor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was Old Orlick as you tumbled over on your stairs that night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Watchman tumbled over me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Well it's only a pretty deep flesh-wound; but, then, tumbling and scratching down that place didn't help him much. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The conversation had arrived at a crisis to justify Miss Pleasant's hair in tumbling down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- At this French party, I expected that the men would be tumbling over each other in their too great zeal to show me their national politeness. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- O yes, I constantly expect to see him, returned Herbert, because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- His family is nothing but bills, dirt, waste, noise, tumbles downstairs, confusion, and wretchedness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There tumbles in a strong tide, boiling at the base of dizzy cliffs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Next our peaceful Tupman comes, So rosy, plump, and sweet, Who chokes with laughter at the puns, And tumbles off his seat. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A lanky gawky fellow, said Crawley, tumbles over everybody. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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