Tumble

(noun.) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.

(verb.) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.

(verb.) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.

(verb.) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying; 'Wash in warm water and tumble dry'.

(verb.) fall suddenly and sharply; 'Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency'.

(verb.) throw together in a confused mass; 'They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern'.

(verb.) roll over and over, back and forth.

(verb.) fall down, as if collapsing; 'The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it'.

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• The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Come, tumble up now. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He is the man I spoke of just now as being able to tumble me out of this place neck and crop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I tumble down before I get to the old place, at a point where I was all right before, and stop to think. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Well, well, replied Caleb; the castle will tumble about nobody's head. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I put a few shillings in his hand, and as I turned away I heard the roar of laughter which followed his first tumble on the stage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We arrived at a tumble-down old rookery called the Palazzo Simonetti--a massive hewn-stone affair occupied by a family of ragged Italians. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The military Colossus then tumbled, and the Press began to lead mankind. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Everybody laughed and sang, climbed up and tumbled down. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Harold Skimpole's children have tumbled up somehow or other. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I was undressing in my own room, when Mr. Micawber's letter tumbled on the floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was Old Orlick as you tumbled over on your stairs that night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Watchman tumbled over me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Well it's only a pretty deep flesh-wound; but, then, tumbling and scratching down that place didn't help him much. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The conversation had arrived at a crisis to justify Miss Pleasant's hair in tumbling down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• At this French party, I expected that the men would be tumbling over each other in their too great zeal to show me their national politeness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• O yes, I constantly expect to see him, returned Herbert, because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His family is nothing but bills, dirt, waste, noise, tumbles downstairs, confusion, and wretchedness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There tumbles in a strong tide, boiling at the base of dizzy cliffs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Next our peaceful Tupman comes, So rosy, plump, and sweet, Who chokes with laughter at the puns, And tumbles off his seat. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A lanky gawky fellow, said Crawley, tumbles over everybody. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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