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单词 bumble
释义
bumblebum‧ble /ˈbʌmbəl/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbumble
Origin:
1500-1600 Probably from bungle
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
bumble
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theybumble
he, she, itbumbles
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theybumbled
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave bumbled
he, she, ithas bumbled
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad bumbled
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill bumble
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have bumbled
Continuous Form
PresentIam bumbling
he, she, itis bumbling
you, we, theyare bumbling
PastI, he, she, itwas bumbling
you, we, theywere bumbling
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been bumbling
he, she, ithas been bumbling
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been bumbling
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be bumbling
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been bumbling
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Officials bumbled through their explanations of why the hospital had been bombed.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Despite Dulles's bumbling, these interests were secure.
  • Freedom party scandals as well as bumbled performances by some of its ministers probably hurt the party as well.
  • He bumbled around for a bit, trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps.
  • Neither Torres nor Gutierrez Varea seems to have figured out what to do about the bumbling, controlling Michael.
  • Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
  • The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
  • They were introduced by Jack's bumbling old friend Schultz.
  • You may know it as an eccentric home to raw-boned miners, bumbling Biospherians and one fine little hilltop saloon.
1 (also bumble on) to speak in a confused way, so that no one can understand you:  What was Karl bumbling on about?2 (also bumble around) to move in an unsteady way
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