stumble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
    — I went to his aid. As he said, a board in the floor was loose. His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.
  2. An error or blunder.
    — Possibly Mr. Carrados was considering it from his own way round for he did not appear to notice anything in her stumble.
  3. A clumsy walk.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To trip or fall; to walk clumsily. intransitive
    — He stumbled over a rock.
  2. To make a mistake or have trouble. intransitive
    — I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
  3. To cause to stumble or trip. transitive
    — Slowly, I turned around and the shock of it stumbled me back a few steps.
  4. To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall. figuratively,transitive
    — False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
  5. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
    — It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]

词形变化

stumbles plural stumbles present,singular,third-person stumbling participle,present stumbled participle,past stumbled past

词汇关系

衍生词
stumble across stumble against stumblebum stumble-drunk stumble into stumble on stumble onto stumbler stumblesome stumble upon stumbly
相关词
stumbling block

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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