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词汇 stumble
释义 stumble
verb
uk /ˈstʌm.bəl/ us /ˈstʌm.bəl/

stumbleverb (WALK)


C2[ I ]
to step awkwardly while walking or running and fall or begin to fall: 绊脚;绊倒
Running along the beach, she stumbled on a log and fell on the sand.她沿着海滩跑步时绊到一块木头上摔倒了。
In the final straight Meyers stumbled, and although he didn't fall it was enough to lose him first place.迈耶斯在最后的直道上绊了一下,虽然没有摔倒,但也足以使他丢掉第一的位置。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to go down onto the ground suddenly
fallShe slipped and fell.
dropSeveral apples dropped from the tree.
collapseSeveral buildings collapsed in the earthquake.
crumpleHe fainted and crumpled into a heap on the floor.
tumbleA huge rock tumbled down the mountain.
plungeFour of the mountaineers plunged to their deaths when their ropes broke.
[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
to walk in a way that does not seem controlled: 跌跌撞撞地走,蹒跚而行
We could hear her stumbling about/around the bedroom in the dark.我们可以听到她摸黑在卧室里跌跌撞撞地走动。
He pulled on his clothes and stumbled into the kitchen.他披上衣服,摇摇晃晃地走进厨房。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to walk in a way that is not controlled or even
stumbleHe was stumbling around the house like he was drunk.
lumberWe held our breath as a black bear lumbered across the hiking trail ahead of us.
galumphThe children galumphed down the steps and raced outside to play.
bumbleHe bumbled into her and spilled her drink down her gown.
falterThe dancer faltered right before the jump and landed awkwardly.
totterHe tottered carefully down the gangplank, clutching at the railing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Falling and dropping
ass
collapse
collapse under someone's/something's weight
collapse/fall in a heapidiom
crumple
drop like fliesidiom
drop off
faceplant
fly
knock
knock someone over
let goidiom
mic drop
nosedive
overbalance
parachutist
shower
topple
trip (someone) up
wayside

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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty

stumbleverb (PAUSE)


C2[ I ]
to make a mistake, such as repeating something or pausing for too long, while speaking or playing a piece of music: 犯错;磕磕巴巴地说,支吾;不顺畅地演奏
When the poet stumbled over a line in the middle of a poem, someone in the audience corrected him.诗人在朗诵一首诗的过程中念错了一句,听众中有人纠正了他。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ways of speaking
accented
accentual
accentuation
articulate
asperity
asyndetic
asyndetically
bray
cadence
glottal stop
intone
mispronounce
non-metaphorical
non-verbal
non-verbally
orthoepy
paralanguage
pronounce
singsong
toned

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Making mistakes

Phrasal verbs


stumble across/on/upon something/someone
stumble into something

stumble | American Dictionary


stumble
verb[ I ]
us/ˈstʌm·bəl/

stumbleverb[I] (FALL)


to hit your foot against something while walking and almost fall, or to walk awkwardly as if you might fall:
She stumbled over a toy.
He stumbled around in the dark.

stumbleverb[I] (MAKE A MISTAKE)


to make a mistake, or to pause unexpectedly when speaking:
He stumbled through several early career choices.
Several times the reader stumbled over lines in the poem.

Phrasal verbs


stumble across/on something/someone
stumble into something

Examples of stumble


stumble
Two major stumbling blocks prevent the spread of use of this new and renewable energy.
Middle-ground politics implemented in actual spaces, however, stumbles on a complicated, post-modern terrain.
Julian stumbles through the streets crazed with despair.
He stumbled, inarticulate and inchoate, unable to defend the abysmal record of his government.
I honestly don't remember much of what was said until we stumbled on a shared love of baseball.
They stumbled on this solution by chance, without foresight...
Once there, the elaborate choreog raphy of the cofn, which had previously slowed, nally stumbled.
We are stumbling toward it now and afraid to embrace it.
I seemed to have stumbled on a way to gather data to generate plausible new ideas.
Upon listening to the children read the text aloud, it was noticed that some children were hesitating and stumbling at line breaks.
Accordingly, false starts were redefined as hesitations or stumbles on the first word of a line, or rereading the end of the previous line.
The numerous stumbles along the way indicate just how awkward that exercise has been.
However, bioethics meets with many stumbling blocks in other regions, and its geographical progression has not been without problems.
The book's awkward structure is another stumbling block.
Methods with backwards time steps can only be conditionally stable; this stumbling block held up the development of high-order compositions for years.
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