| 词汇 | stumbled |
| 释义 | stumbled past simple and past participle ofstumble 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。 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。 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. Falling and dropping ass balance collapse under someone's/something's weight collapse/fall in a heapidiom cropper crumple drop drop like fliesidiom faceplant fly knock someone over let goidiom mic drop nosedive overbalance parachutist plunge shower thump wayside You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: 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。 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making mistakes Phrasal verbsstumble across/on/upon something/someone stumble into something Examples of stumbledstumbled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Some years ago a farmer working his field stumbled on the entrance of a shaft tomb. 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. It appears that social psychology is a discipline that has stumbled onto a series of interesting phenomena that, so far, elude systematic scientific inquiry. Indeed, one sometimes feels as if one has stumbled into a private party of some mutual admiration society ! Biologists had stumbled across a new form of microbial life without recognizing that they had done so. At least one critic stumbled on precisely this point. I seemed to have stumbled on a way to gather data to generate plausible new ideas. One utterance was discarded because the speaker stumbled and corrected himself in the middle of the sentence. The party had stumbled along with a membership of between 3,000 and 5,000 for most of the first fiveand-a-half years after its formation in 1920. Sometimes, they stumbled into enemy territory because they did not know where the foe was, or even exactly where they themselves were. By the end of 1989 the reform process stumbled. I am like a child in a children's book who has stumbled through a gap in reality and fallen headlong into another world. I stumbled across biology by chance at a dinner party. The stranger attempted to prolong the exchange, perhaps believing he had stumbled across a potential patron. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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