tumble

B1 CET-6 大学 FREQ #15549 ★★☆☆☆

n. 跌倒, 摔跤, 翻斤斗 vi. 翻倒, 摔倒, 倒塌, 滚动, 翻斤斗, 仓促地行动 vt. 使摔倒, 使滚翻, 弄乱

发音

US /ˈtʌmbl̩/

词形变化

tumbles 复数 tumbled tumbles 三单 tumbles tumblest tumbleth tumbling tumbling 现在分词 tumbled 过去式 tumbled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

跌倒；翻筋斗；跌跤

动词

使摔倒；使滚翻；弄乱

动词

摔倒；倒塌；滚动；打滚；仓惶地行动

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fall, especially end over end.

    I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.

  2. 2.

    A disorderly heap.

  3. 3.

    An act of sexual intercourse.

    非正式
v. B1
  1. 1.

    To fall end over end; to roll over and over.

    翻滚

    跌倒

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To throw headlong.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To drop rapidly.

    不及物

    Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.

  5. 5.

    To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.

    及物
  6. 6.

    To have sexual intercourse.

    非正式 不及物
  7. 7.

    To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.

    不及物
  8. 8.

    To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

    to tumble a bed

  9. 9.

    To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.

    商务 金融
  10. 10.

    To comprehend; often in tumble to.

    英国 废旧 俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

fall spill

上位词 2

trip slip

下位词 8

flip somerset somersault wipe out pratfall somersaulting summersault summerset
动词

同义词 10

tip collapse crumble twig whirl topple crumple break down catch on get on to

上位词 10

move fall drop force push dig exercise toss grasp compass

下位词 2

roll keel over

相关短语

tumble dry 用烘干机烘干 tumble dryer n. 衣服烘干机 tumble to 恍然大悟 tumble drier n. 滚筒式干洗机 tumble driers tumble down a. 即将坍塌的, 摇摇欲坠的 tumble dryers (tumble-dryer 的复数) n. 衣服烘干机 tumble home tumble turn tumble turns tumble on tumble up 弄乱,使混乱;起床 tumble in 嵌入 tumble motor tumble motors

词源

From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln and Danish tumle.

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