| 单词 | tumble |
| 释义 | tum·ble I. intransitive verb 1. a. < a man … paid for tumbling upon his hands — Samuel Johnson > < to keep in shape, the … general tumbles — Time > b. < rooks tumbling and cawing above the high elm tops — Flora Thompson > < a projectile tumbles when the twist of the rifling is too slow for the bullet > < machine-gun bullets, badly tumbling, fell in among the ridges — S.L.A.Marshall > 2. a. < tumble from a scaffold > < tripped over a stone and tumbled > < one … whose horse has tumbled — G.B.Shaw > b. < once again a government tumbles > < the small tumble with the great — Arnold Bennett > c. < the stock market tumbled — N.Y.Times > d. < the wall finally tumbled > < deserted buildings … tumbling into ruins — American Guide Series: Nevada > — often used with down < old houses tumbling down > < the structure of society does not tumble down when we probe its framework — Zechariah Chafee > 3. < tumbled in her sleep > < his children tumbled like brown puppies about his threshold — Pearl Buck > < laughed all day together tumbling in the hay — George Meredith > < thoughts were tumbling about in her brain like cargo loose in a rolling ship — Arnold Bennett > 4. a. < books tumbling from the presses > < gold coins tumbled out on the counterpane — T.B.Costain > < words tumbling eagerly from his lips > b. < tumbled into his clothes > < customers tumbling out of the tavern as the fire trucks arrived > 5. < treated his wife and children as the most delightful accidents against whom he had, most happily, tumbled — Hugh Walpole > — usually used with in, into, or upon < the individuality you always tumbled upon in an English … village — H.J.Laski > 6. 7. < nobody tumbles till we're dragging the damned aristocrats out of their cursed beds — W.G.Hardy > — usually used with to < suspicious for some time … and all of a sudden I tumbled to it — W.S.Maugham > < advertisers … had not tumbled to the extensive possibilities for fakery in photography — Andy Logan > transitive verb 1. a. < tumbled him on the bed > b. < tumble a rabbit with a shotgun > c. < had reached a pinnacle … and now he was tumbled from it — Winifred Bambrick > d. < tumbled a policeman — Richard Free > < tumbled the trees — V.W. Von Hagen > 2. < tumbles down steeples — Shakespeare > < tumbling the majestic house of worship — Claudia Cassidy > 3. a. < tumbled them helter-skelter into the boxes — Elinor Wylie > < hills lie tumbled about in a sort of mad confusion — Tom Marvel > b. < tumbled about like a football — Tobias Smollett > < tumbling him into the position at short notice > c. < tumble bedclothes > < one gets so tumbled in such a crowd — Jane Austen > d. archaic < walked through the library and tumbled books — Lord Byron > e. 4. • - tumble to - tumble up II. 1. a. < a tumble of books and papers on the floor > < could look out … at the tumble of lesser hills and valleys, dotted here and there with towns and settlements — R.M.Coates > b. New England c. < viewed the tumble of the bed > < cut through the tumble of wordy, circular arguments > 2. a. < practice a tumble > b. < take a tumble > < injured in a tumble from a horse > < no ability to pick herself up after a tumble — F.A.Swinnerton > — compare rough-and-tumble c. < the premier's tumble from office > < a tumble in stock market prices > < a tumble from high estate > d. < the tumble of the waves > < the … river does a series of tumbles over rocky ledges — Y.E.Soderberg > 3. 4. < you wouldn't even give me a tumble — Dorothy Parker > |
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