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To tumble is to fall down suddenly, often rolling or bouncing as you go — like tumbling down a hill or tumbling out of bed. The word is also used for prices, values, or numbers falling quickly and by a lot: 'stock prices tumbled after the announcement.' As a noun, 'a tumble' is that sudden fall itself ('she took a nasty tumble on the ice'), and a 'tumble dryer' is the machine that dries your clothes by turning them around and around.
跌落、翻滾；（價格、數值）暴跌
原始詞典資料14 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。
Tumblename
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A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).
tumblenoun/ˈtʌmbl̩/
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A fall, especially end over end.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
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A disorderly heap.
- When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.
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informalAn act of sexual intercourse.
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
tumbleverb/ˈtʌmbl̩/
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To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
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To throw headlong.
- His hand went after his revolver almost that instant mine did. I was a second too quick for him, for my shot tumbled him from his mule just as his ball whistled harmlessly past by my head.
- [Spillikins] was played with ivory or bone pieces about five inches long with assorted ends. These were tumbled out of a box into a pile on the table and each player, using a specially designed tool, would try in turn to remove a spillikin without upsetting the others in the pile.
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To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
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To drop rapidly.
- Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.
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To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
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informalTo have sexual intercourse.
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To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question ; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
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To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- to tumble a bed
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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businesscryptocurrenciescryptocurrencyTo obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured.
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obsoleteslangTo comprehend; often in tumble to.
- Speaking of this language, a costermonger said to me: "The Irish can't tumble to it anyhow; the Jews can tumble better, but we're their masters. Some of the young salesmen at Billingsgate understand us, — but only at Billingsgate; […]
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。