| 单词 | shamble |
| 释义 | shamble (once / 2368 pages) vn When you shamble down the street, you move slowly and shuffle your feet. People who shamble along are usually tired, elderly, or sad. An exhausted hiker might shamble along the final mile of trail after weeks of walking, and your grandfather might be the speediest one in his nursing home, passing up the residents who shamble along with their walkers. A kindergarten teacher might call to her class, "Don't shamble! Pick up your feet and let's go to the library!" Shamble probably comes from the outdated adjective that means "ungainly or awkward." WORD FAMILYshamble: shambled, shambles, shambling+/shambling: shamblings USAGE EXAMPLESWhen no new bolivar notes appeared to replace the old ones, riots and looting erupted in towns across Venezuela, whose economy was already in shambles. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) The Georgetown Republican’s bill also would create a trusteeship to oversee ailing hospitals left in shambles by exploitative owners. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) And the Packers’ defense appears to be in shambles. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1v walk by dragging one's feet Syn|Hypo|Hyper scuffle, shuffle drag, scuff walk without lifting the feet walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2n walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet from his shambling I assumed he was very old Syn|Hyper shambling, shuffle, shuffling walk, walking the act of traveling by foot |
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