stumblestum•ble /'stʌmbl/

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1. 绊脚；绊倒

• Walking in a hurry I stumbled and spilled the water over the floor. 匆忙中我被绊倒了，把水撒了一地。

• The little boy stumbled on a rock. 小男孩在石头上绊了一跤。

2. 蹒跚而行

• He stumbled upstairs and dropped into bed. 他跌跌撞撞地上了楼，一头倒在床上。

3. 结结巴巴地说话；犯错，出岔子

• I hope I didn't stumble over any of the long words. 我希望自己没有把这些长的词说得磕磕巴巴的。

• stumble into crime 失足犯罪

4. 偶然遇到

• The man was killed because he stumbled across something he shouldn't have seen. 那个人碰巧看到了不该看到的东西，所以被杀了。

• I stumbled on this book at the bookstore yesterday. 昨天我在书店里偶然看到了这本书。

–stumble n C