tumbled adj. 翻滚,滚磨(表面光滑或稍微粗糙,边角光滑且呈破碎状)
v. 翻到,滚动(tumble的过去分词)
- So after a period of euphoria, the bond market tumbled.
因此,经过一段繁荣期后,债券市场狂泻下来。 - They jumped out just before their car tumbled down the mountainside.
他们刚刚跳下车,它就沿着山坡翻滚下去。 - The water turned green when it hit the light, and tumbled and warmed and slowed.
流水被洞内的光线浸染,由乌黑转为碧绿,变得活泼、温暖而又缓慢。
Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tumbling}.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over
head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw.
tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel,
to stagger.]
1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
{To tumble home} (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. {Wall-sided}.