stumbling 的 3 个定义
stum·bled, stum·bling.
- to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- to walk or go unsteadily: to stumble down a dark passage.
- to make a slip, mistake, or blunder, especially a sinful one: to stumble over a question; to stumble and fall from grace.
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stum·bled, stum·bling.
- to cause to stumble; trip.
- to give pause to; puzzle or perplex.
- the act of stumbling.
- a moral lapse or error.
- a slip or blunder.
stumbling 近义词
slip, stagger
happen upon
更多stumbling例句
- The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.
- In the edited conversation below, Earley, 53, talks of Ernest Hemingway, technical challenges, and stumbling toward the light.
- Slayman eased the young man—Matt, from Pennsylvania—out of the car and got him on his stumbling way.
- I carried the puppy up the hill, stumbling under the weight.
- If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.
- He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.
- The lowing of cattle and the soft stumbling tread of many unshod feet told him that some one was approaching.
- How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.
- This design reveals a stumbling-block that superficial people fall over.
- At this critical moment feet were heard clattering and stumbling up the stair as if in tremendous haste.