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To shamble is to walk slowly and , barely lifting your feet. The walk looks loose and heavy: the knees do not spring, the shoes , and the body seems a little behind the legs. People shamble when they are very tired, weak, ill, or just not bothering to walk well. It is not a proud walk and not a fast one. In books you also meet it with figures that move like the living dead — the same dragging, careless steps. You can talk of someone coming shambling in, or of a shamble as the walk itself, but the verb is the usual form. Though actually, everyday English often prefers shuffle or drag your feet; shamble sounds a bit more like a story. It is not a moral word. A person who shambles is not ashamed; they are just moving badly. And it is not scramble, which is quick and messy. Shamble is slow and messy.
蹣跚、拖著腳走
組成From an old word for a bench or stool (Old English sceamol, from Latin scamellum, a little footstool). The verb probably comes from the adjective, and that adjective from using the noun to describe a person — the picture being awkward legs, like the legs of a stool. Related words in nearby languages still mean stool, and one can also mean clumsy legs. It does not come from shame.
同家族的字
- shamblessame old stool / butcher's-bench word; later came to mean a mess
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shamblenoun/ˈʃæmbəl/
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businessminingOne of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
shambleadj/ˈʃæmbəl/
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rareShambling, awkward, ungainly; distorted, ill-shapen, wry.
- His awkward stagger is due to his shamble legs.
shambleverb/ˈʃæmbəl/
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To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
- I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.
- The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; [...]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。