stumble
- IPA[ˈstʌmbl]
英式
- trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall；trip repeatedly as one walks
- an act of stumbling；a stumbling walk
verb: stumble, 3rd person present: stumbles, gerund or present participle: stumbling, past tense: stumbled, past participle: stumbled
noun: stumble, plural noun: stumbles
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- 相關詞
動詞
- 1. trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall her foot caught in the rug and she stumbled 同義詞
- ▪ trip repeatedly as one walks his legs still weak, he stumbled after them 同義詞
- ▪ make a mistake or repeated mistakes in speaking she stumbled over the words 同義詞
- ▪ find or encounter by chance a policeman had stumbled across a gang of youths
名詞
- 1. an act of stumbling he broke a bone in his foot in a stumble down an Alpine pass
- ▪ a stumbling walk he parodied my groping stumble across the stage
- tripping or losing one's balance while walking; moving with difficulty: they began their stumbling walk home I took a stumbling step backwards
Oxford American Dictionary
- tripping or losing balance while walking; moving with difficulty: they began their stumbling walk home I took a stumbling step backwards
Oxford Dictionary
- a circumstance that causes difficulty or hesitation: the country's water shortage was a stumbling block to investors
Oxford Dictionary
- a circumstance that causes difficulty or hesitation: bashfulness is a great stumbling block to some men
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈstəmb(ə)l]
美式
- trip or momentarily lose one's balance; almost fall: her foot caught a shoe and she stumbled
- an act of stumbling: he broke a bone in his foot in a stumble down an Alpine pass
Oxford American Dictionary
