英语词汇“to stumble at the threshold”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

f. Phrase, to stumble at (on) the threshold. Chiefly figurative, to fail, take offence, meet with an ominous check at the beginning of an enterprise.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > start unsuccessfully

to stumble at (on) the threshold1377

to get (start, etc.) off on the wrong foot1844

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 357 He stumbled [So several MSS.; but seethrumble v.¹] on the thresshewolde.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 230 Tho went the pensife Damme out of dore And chaunst to stomble at the threshold flore.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 11.

1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xvi. 200 This is no very great mistake, but it is always ominous to stumble at the threshold.

1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 209 I lately began to read Seneca's Epistles, and stumbled, as they say, at the very Threshold.

1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iv. 49 He stumbled on the threshold, and had almost fallen, but recovered himself.

单词	to stumble at the threshold
释义	> as lemmas to stumble at (on) the threshold f. Phrase, to stumble at (on) the threshold. Chiefly figurative, to fail, take offence, meet with an ominous check at the beginning of an enterprise. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > start unsuccessfully to stumble at (on) the threshold1377 to get (start, etc.) off on the wrong foot1844 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 357 He stumbled [So several MSS.; but seethrumble v.¹] on the thresshewolde. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 230 Tho went the pensife Damme out of dore And chaunst to stomble at the threshold flore. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 11. 1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning xvi. 200 This is no very great mistake, but it is always ominous to stumble at the threshold. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 209 I lately began to read Seneca's Epistles, and stumbled, as they say, at the very Threshold. 1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iv. 49 He stumbled on the threshold, and had almost fallen, but recovered himself. extracted from stumblev. < as lemmas
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