stumble
英 ['stʌmb(ə)l]
美 ['stʌmbl]
- vi. ためらう；つまずく；足を踏み外す；間違いを犯す。
- vt. 混乱させる；つまずかせる
- n. つまずく；よろめく
英語の語源
- stumble
- 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.
例文
- 1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prosector.
- 彼らは偶然、狡猾なゴールドラッシュが住む廃墟の町に来た。
- 2.As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble .
- その男に追いついたとき、彼は転ぶふりをした。
- 3.I make it into the darkness with only one stumble .
- 私はつまずいただけで、周りは暗くなった。
- 4.The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble .
- 彼女は突然両足がぐらぐらした。
- 5.Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.
- staggerと stumble は、いずれも不安定な、または身に覚えのない動作を意味する。
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