stumble

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n. 绊倒, 蹒跚而行, 失足 vt. 使绊倒, 使困惑 vi. 绊倒, 失足, 失策, 犯错, 蹒跚, 踌躇

发音

US /ˈstʌmbəl/

词形变化

stumbles 复数 stumbles stumbled stumbles 三单 stumblest stumbleth stumbling stumbling 现在分词 stumbled 过去式 stumbled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

绊倒；蹒跚而行

动词

踌躇，蹒跚；失足；犯错

动词

使…困惑；使…绊倒

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

    失足

  2. 2.

    An error or blunder.

    过失

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London Possibly Mr. Carrados was considering it from his own way round for he did not appear to notice anything in her stumble.

  3. 3.

    A clumsy walk.

v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

    绊倒

    蹒跚而行

    不及物

    He stumbled over a rock.

    Last night, you drunkenly stumbled to the front door, waking up the whole house.

  2. 2.

    To make a mistake or have trouble.

    犯错

    不及物

    I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.

  3. 3.

    To cause to stumble or trip.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

    比喻 及物
  5. 5.

    To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

trip lurch stagger misstep

上位词 10

boner blunder boo-boo fuck-up gait bloomer botch bungle blooper flub
动词

同义词 6

hit trip bumble falter slip up trip up

上位词 7

move walk mistake slip err come by come into

下位词 1

founder

相关短语

stumble upon 偶然发现 stumble on 无意中发现,偶然找到 stumble into 跌入,无意中进入,误入,无意中发现,偶然找到 stumble across 偶然发现 stumble against stumble onto

词源

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).

来源：wiktionary