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词汇 shambling
释义 shambling
present participle ofshamble
shamble
verb[ I+ adv/prep ]
uk /ˈʃæm.bəl/ us /ˈʃæm.bəl/
to walk slowly and awkwardly, without lifting your feet correctly: 蹒跚而行,拖着脚步走
Sick patients shambled along the hospital corridors.重病患者沿着医院的走廊蹒跚而行。
He was a strange, shambling figure.他是一个步履蹒跚的怪人。
Synonym
shuffle
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
dodderer
doddery
favour
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
lurch
reel
squeeze
toddle
toil
totter
tottering
totteringly
tumble

Examples of shambling


shambling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Was ever such shuffling and shambling machinery devised?
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This problem follows us like some great shambling creature of evil which we do not seem able to get rid of.
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We had a shambling, fumbling, largely irrelevant and, at one point, degrading speech.
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Indeed, it is being propounded by the same people who made a mess of the programme that is still shambling along.
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Today, we have heard no more and no less than a shambling rant.
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This character is an isolated survivor of an infection which has turned the world's population into aggressive, shambling mutants.
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Another reviewer described them as a shambling wreck of a psychedelic post-punk band.
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They walk in a slow, shambling motion, with their feet being set down in a noisy, flapping motion.
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However, their shows were received positively by critics, who described the band's onstage presence as an aural and visual onslaught of vicious, shambling noise.
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Keen to distance themselves from the shambling scene, the band earned a reputation for haughtiness.
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She catches sight of a shadowy figure shambling toward the lodge!
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One night he hears a shambling on his porch.
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Better still, he had become a sorcerer of phenomenal power, while his brother was now but a shambling automaton.
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Bradburn notes that the girl's instincts were on target as the printed interview with the doggy pickanins of the movies was a shambling sometimes condescending affair.
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In consequence of a somewhat shambling, awkward gait, and the habit of carrying his head down in a thoughtful attitude, he seemed less of stature than he really was.
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