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amble

/am-buhl/US // ˈæm bəl //UK // (ˈæmbəl) //

埋头苦干,模糊,模糊的,埋头苦干的人

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v.无主动词 verb
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    am·bled, am·bling.

    • : to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled around the town.
    • : to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ambling gait.
    • : a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.
    • : a stroll.

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Examples

  • When he walked, he would amble from one side of the street to the other.

  • The cheetahs amble slowly along the edge of the pool and out across the lawn.

  • It was smooth sailing at first—until walkers in SWAT-like uniforms amble onto the scene.

  • There are several varieties of amble peculiar to the Peruvian horse; the most approved is that called the paso llano.

  • In Peru a horse is valued less for beauty of form than for the perfection of his amble.

  • Horace is always on the amble, Juvenal on the gallop; but his way is perpetually on carpet-ground.

  • Sally Blake and a bare kneed lad began to amble behind the foreigners, he taking his cue smartly and lolling out his tongue.

  • It seemed to amble tranquilly through the forest and the night, neither alarmed nor considering itself alarming.