单词 | trundle |
释义 | trun·dle I. 1. a. < the tip end of the nozzle rolls along on a freewheeling little trundle — New Yorker > b. < the circular rampart being like a hoop or trundle — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > c. 2. a. b. 3. II. transitive verb 1. a. < trundled a new tire through the sand — Vicki Baum > b. archaic < attains the same result by trundling the glass during reheating — H.J.Powell > especially 2. a. < the local bus … trundling its load — Adrian Bell > < was put into a wheelchair and trundled down to the hospital library — Ben Benson > < trundled wheelbarrows of dirt — R.A.Billington > b. < machines … are trundled around on ball-bearing turntables — Bryan Morgan > intransitive verb 1. a. < start a barrel trundling down a chute > b. 2. a. < rickety old vehicles … trundle from city to city with loads of chickens — New York Times > < the tram trundled away from them — Richard Blaker > < heaped-up cloud towers were trundling across the heavens — Eugene Walter > b. < called a taxi and trundled down to the offices — Dorothy Sayers > < trundling off aboard a suburban bus — Bennett Cerf > c. < a battery had trundled into position … and was thoughtfully shelling the distance — Stephen Crane > 3. < a moving bundle of brush, he trundled away into the thicket — Margaret Peattie > |
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