stumble
英 ['st?mb(?)l]
美['st?mbl]
- vi. 躊躇，蹣跚；失足；犯錯
- vt. 使…困惑；使…絆倒
- n. 絆倒；蹣跚而行
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?stumbles;過去式:?stumbled;過去分詞:?stumbled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?stumbling;
助記提示
1. 死都要貪步會跌倒.
2. 諧音“死貪步” => 絆倒、犯錯誤。
英文詞源
- stumble
- stumble: [14] Stumble was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse *stumla. This would have come, along with its first cousin stumra ‘trip’, from a prehistoric Germanic base *stum-, *stam- ‘check, impede’, which also produced English stammer and stem ‘halt, check’.
=> stammer, stem - stumble (v.)
- c. 1300, "to trip or miss one's footing" (physically or morally), probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stumla, Swedish stambla "to stumble"), probably from a variant of the Proto-Germanic base *stam-, source of Old English stamerian "to stammer," German stumm, Dutch stom "dumb, silent." Possibly influenced in form by stumpen "to stumble," but the -b- may be purely euphonious. Meaning "to come (upon) by chance" is attested from 1550s. Related: Stumbled; stumbling. Stumbling-block first recorded 1526 (Tindale), used in Rom. xiv:13, where usually it translates Greek skandalon.
- stumble (n.)
- 1540s, "act of stumbling," from stumble (v.). Meaning "a failure, false step" is from 1640s.
雙語例句
- 1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
- 他們偶然來到一個居住著一位狡詐的淘金者的廢墟之城。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble.
- 當他趕上那個男人時，他裝出了要跌倒的樣子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I make it into the darkness with only one stumble.
- 我只是絆了一下，周圍就變成了一片黑暗。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble.
- 她突然兩腿發(fā)軟踉蹌了一下。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.
- stagger和stumble均指不穩(wěn)的或身不由己的動作.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)