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To trundle is to roll or move slowly and heavily along the ground, usually on wheels. You can use it two ways.
To trundletrundle is是 to roll or move slowly and heavily along the ground指沿著地面緩慢又沉重地滾動或移動, usually on wheels通常是靠輪子。You你 can use it two ways有兩種用法可以用。
Something can trundle by itself — a bus trundles down the road, a shopping cart trundles across the car park. Or a person can trundle something, meaning push or pull it slowly: she trundled the wheelbarrow to the back of the garden.
Something可以是東西自己 can trundle by itselftrundle — a bus trundles down the road公車轟隆轟隆地沿路開下去, a shopping cart trundles across the car park購物車轟隆轟隆地滾過停車場。Or a person can trundle something或者人可以 trundle 某個東西, meaning push or pull it slowly意思是慢慢推或拉它: she trundled the wheelbarrow to the back of the garden她把手推車慢慢推到花園後面。
The word carries a picture and a sound with it: something a bit heavy, not fast, often making a low rumbling noise as it goes. Big wooden wheels, old suitcases, farm carts, trolleys. It is not a word for a car speeding past.
The word carries a picture and a sound with it這個字自帶一種畫面和聲音: something a bit heavy, not fast有點重、不快, often making a low rumbling noise as it goes移動時常常發出低沉的轟隆聲。Big wooden wheels, old suitcases, farm carts, trolleys大木輪、舊行李箱、農用推車、手推車。It它 is not a word for a car speeding past不是拿來形容一台呼嘯而過的車。
Writers like it because it makes the reader hear the movement.
Writers作家 like it喜歡用它 because it makes the reader hear the movement因為它能讓讀者「聽見」那個移動的過程。
People also use it for people and animals moving in that same slow, heavy, way — an old man trundling down the street, a fat dog trundling after its owner. That use is friendly rather than rude, but it does say the person is not moving .
People大家 also use it for people and animals moving in that same slow, heavy, unhurried way也可以用在人或動物身上，形容那種一樣緩慢、沉重、不急不徐的移動方式 — an old man trundling down the street一個老先生慢吞吞地走在街上, a fat dog trundling after its owner一隻胖狗慢吞吞地跟在主人後面。That use is friendly rather than rude這種用法是友善的，不是無禮的, but it does say the person is not moving gracefully但它確實在說這個人動作不太優雅。
And it gets used with a small joke behind it when something is going slowly and everyone wishes it would hurry up: the project trundles along, the years trundle by. In everyday Taiwan classrooms you will meet this word in stories and news writing more often than in conversation.
And it gets used with a small joke behind it當某件事進展很慢、大家都希望它快一點時，這個字也會帶點小小的調侃 when something is going slowly and everyone wishes it would hurry up: the project trundles along這個專案慢吞吞地推進著, the years trundle by歲月慢慢地流逝。In everyday Taiwan classrooms在台灣的日常課堂裡 you will meet this word in stories and news writing你會比較常在故事和新聞寫作裡遇到這個字 more often than in conversation口語對話裡反而比較少見。
組成From Old English trendlian, meaning to roll or turn. The same old root gives us the idea of something round going round — a wheel turning.
同家族的字
- trendshares the Old English root about turning and rolling — a trend is which way things are turning
原始詞典資料15 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。
Trundlename
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A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
trundlenoun/ˈtɹʌndəl/
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obsoleteA low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
- […] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,
- […] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have to Load Timber with; and by that you may weigh it out of its place, and place the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take it off from the Trundle, and set it in its hole at your pleasure.
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obsoleteA small wheel or roller.
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A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
- There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails.
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The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
- […] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.
- He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- The Cog-wheels in most Wind-Mills are (in the diameter) 8. foot or under […] the trundle is at the least two foot, which is 4. to one.
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raregovernmentheraldryhobbiesA spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
- between as many Trundles, Or […]
- Gules, two broaches in saltire argent, between as many trundles or, on a chief of the second a lion passant gules - EMBROIDERERS' COMPANY at Bristol and Chester.
trundleverb/ˈtɹʌndəl/
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To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
- Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
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To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- […] they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth, with mighty retinues, and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them, when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them […]
- 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58, The reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes, or, is trundled from the next market town in a wheelbarrow;
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To move heavily (on wheels).
- […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
- Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
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To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,
- 1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27, Last night they trundled down the road That dead young soldier in his blood:
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To move, often heavily or clumsily.
- Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.
- ... the proprietor trundled away to fetch a second beer ...
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To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
- to trundle a hoop or a ball
- 1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3, He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:
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To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball In them was no fayth, but infydelytye
- Water is apt to move, being round like Balls, No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。