释义 |
tumbled, ppl. a.|ˈtʌmb(ə)ld| [f. tumble v. + -ed1.] That has tumbled or fallen; that has been thrown, tossed, or pitched down, together, etc.; also, tousled, disordered, rumpled.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V cclxxxvii, Stand Harrie,..Whose tumbled Character, tooke from the Life, Has but resemblance. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 79 If he looks upon a tempest, he shall have an image of a tumbled bed. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxvii, [A preacher with] no gown, not even that of Geneva, a tumbled band [etc.]. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 7 An amphitheatre of tumbled porphyry hills. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xiv, Bell was seated on a bit of tumbled pillar. 1891tr. Didon's Jesus Christ I. iii. vii. 388 The old basalt walls of the tumbled-down houses..are still to be distinguished. 1895Zangwill Master 443 Poets with lack-lustre visages and tumbled hair. 1907Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 4/4 We read in these tumbled-together books the progress of a nation through all its stages. |