stumble: [14] Stumble was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse *stumla. This would have come, along with its first cousin stumra ‘trip’, from a prehistoric Germanic base *stum-, *stam- ‘check, impede’, which also produced English stammer and stem ‘halt, check’. => stammer, stem
stumble (v.)
c. 1300, "to trip or miss one's footing" (physically or morally), probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stumla, Swedish stambla "to stumble"), probably from a variant of the Proto-Germanic base *stam-, source of Old English stamerian "to stammer," German stumm, Dutch stom "dumb, silent." Possibly influenced in form by stumpen "to stumble," but the -b- may be purely euphonious. Meaning "to come (upon) by chance" is attested from 1550s. Related: Stumbled; stumbling. Stumbling-block first recorded 1526 (Tindale), used in Rom. xiv:13, where usually it translates Greek skandalon.
stumble (n.)
1540s, "act of stumbling," from stumble (v.). Meaning "a failure, false step" is from 1640s.
雙語例句
1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
他們偶然來到一個居住著一位狡詐的淘金者的廢墟之城。
來自柯林斯例句
2. As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble.
當他趕上那個男人時，他裝出了要跌倒的樣子。
來自柯林斯例句
3. I make it into the darkness with only one stumble.
我只是絆了一下，周圍就變成了一片黑暗。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble.
她突然兩腿發軟踉蹌了一下。
來自《權威詞典》
5. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.