喜樂美語
  1. 1緩緩滾動前進（多指有輪子的東西）；推著慢慢走

    To trundle is to roll or move slowly and heavily along the ground, usually on wheels. You can use it two ways. 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. 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. Writers like it because it makes the reader hear the movement. 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 . 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.

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，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

trundlenoun/ˈtɹʌndəl/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    obsoleteA small wheel or roller.

  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    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.
  • 5

    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.
  • 6

    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/

  • 1

    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
  • 2

    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;
  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    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:
  • 5

    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 ...
  • 6

    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:
  • 7

    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：

  • trundle bed

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