stumble

英 ['st?mb(?)l] 美['st?mbl]

CET6TEM4CET4IELTS考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?stumbles;過去式:?stumbled;過去分詞:?stumbled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?stumbling;

1. 死都要貪步會(huì)跌倒.
2. 諧音“死貪步” => 絆倒、犯錯(cuò)誤。

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.

1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.: 他們偶然來到一個(gè)居住著一位狡詐的淘金者的廢墟之城。

2. As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble.: 當(dāng)他趕上那個(gè)男人時(shí)，他裝出了要跌倒的樣子。

5. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.: stagger和stumble均指不穩(wěn)的或身不由己的動(dòng)作.