stumble
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自原始日耳曼语 *stam- (“摔跤；结巴，口吃”)，从而与德语 stumm (“哑的”)、荷兰语 stom (“笨的”)有关。stammer的同源对似词。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
stumble (复数 stumbles)
- 摔跤，跌倒，失足
- 失误，出错，出糗
- 踉跄
- 2013 6月 8, “The new masters and commanders”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 407, 期 8839，页号 52:
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
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近义词[编辑]
动词[编辑]
stumble (第三人称单数简单现在时 stumbles, 现在分词 stumbling, 一般过去时及过去分词 stumbled)
- (不及物) 摔倒，跌倒；踉跄
- 1820, 沃尔特·司各特, 艾凡赫, 卷s (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), 爱丁堡: […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- He stumbled up the dark avenue.
- 他跌跌撞撞地走在漆黑的街上。
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, 章号 1, 出自 Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.
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- He stumbled over a rock.
- 他踩到石头跌倒了。
- (不及物) 失误，犯错
- I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
- 我老是在西班牙语动词上出错。
- (及物) 使...跌倒，绊倒
- (及物，比喻义) 误导，使...失误
- Template:RQ:Milton Areo
- Template:RQ:Locke Malebranche
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- 意外碰到，偶然碰到（带on、upon或against）
- Template:RQ:Dryden Epistles
- He [Ovid] had stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia […] in a bath.
- 1754, Christopher Smart, Snake
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
- Template:RQ:Dryden Epistles