| 单词 | stumble |
| 释义 | stum·ble I. intransitive verb 1. a. < though we stumbled and we strayed, we were led by evil counsellors — Rudyard Kipling > < man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness — O.N.Bradley > b. < people stumbling and learning and going forward to meet the realities of life and death — Marjorie Vetter > < his thought staggers, and reels and stumbles — Martin Gardner > < how many people in the final survey will stumble over the same obstacle — S.L.Payne > < the problem that … other commanders had stumbled against — Tom Wintringham > c. < stumble at the doctrine of the elect > : scruple, demur d. < voices that stumble and trip over proper names — F.L.Mott > < tongue stumbled at the start — T.B.Costain > 2. < stumbled, laughed, lay there a moment … then got up — O.E.Rölvaag > < stumbled and then, recovering herself, broke into a trot — Ellen Glasgow > < grumbled whenever we stumbled in a shell hole — J.P.O'Neill > 3. a. < strained and stumbled in their exertions like fat sheep — Stephen Crane > < stumbled along the broken path — B.L.K.Henderson > < stumbled through the dark hall — Erskine Caldwell > b. < stumbled haphazardly through the 5th and 6th forms — Margaret A. Barnes > < stumbled through the first prayer — Maeve Brennan > < its plot creaks and stumbles awkwardly — Orville Prescott > < the bassoon stumbles along precariously — P.H.Lang > 4. a. < floundering around in the woods … stumbled on a blockhouse — P.W.Thompson > < cannot adventure very long with an electron microscope … without stumbling upon something new — L.A.White > < was so certain he had stumbled on the truth — T.B.Costain > < is looking for one thing and stumbles on something much bigger — W.P.Webb > b. < was not long before he stumbled into a new folly — H.E.Scudder > < traveler who stumbles into this world of passionate violence — Mark Schorer > < stumbled into a job — Frank O'Leary > < stumbled into immortality — David Dempsey > transitive verb 1. < stumbled my shin against a bedpost to give pain to my rage — Herbert Gold > 2. < the problem stumbles him > II. 1. < taking a bad stumble > 2. < conversation … is a mass of stumbles, clumsy returns, and points missed — J.M.Barzun > < a republic … must needs make many stumbles by the way — Katharine L. Bates > |
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