Stumble

(verb.) make an error; 'She slipped up and revealed the name'.

(verb.) miss a step and fall or nearly fall; 'She stumbled over the tree root'.

(verb.) walk unsteadily; 'The drunk man stumbled about'.

(verb.) encounter by chance; 'I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant'.

整理:胡安妮塔

• I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Well, it is too bad,--I won't again; but I do like to hear the droll little image stumble over those big words! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Without philosophy we stumble along. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Today we may go out and stumble upon a lion which is over-timid--he runs away from us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It was a stumble on the threshold at starting--it was a flaw in the evidence which told fatally against us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I put it to one side for fear some one will stumble upon it, intelligently; I respond to a meaning which the thing has. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Phaidor-- she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, Phaidor already is yours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• She took a little clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled, and threw it in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Grant Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we stumbled after him as best we could. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• A man stumbled against him as he turned away, who mumbled some maudlin apology. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• By St Dunstan, said Gurth, as he stumbled up the dark avenue, this is no Jewess, but an angel from heaven! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And that stumbling-block he never got over. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A great warrior and yet a stumbling little child. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But the one great stumbling-block lay in my want of capital. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Brute-like, he saw without perceiving; and, stumbling forward, poured out a tumbler of brandy, and drank half of it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But by-and-by we shall meet with plenty of stumbling-blocks, no doubt. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His blushes, his stumbles, his awkwardness, and the number of feet which he crushed as he went back to his place, who shall describe or calculate? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

整理:莫顿