tumbles

英 [ˈtʌmblz]

美 [ˈtʌmblz]

v.  (使)跌倒，摔倒，滚落，翻滚下来; 倒塌; 坍塌; (价格或数量)暴跌，骤降
tumble的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 滚下;摔倒;跌落;翻滚而下
  If someone or somethingtumblessomewhere, they fall there with a rolling or bouncing movement.
  1. A small boy tumbled off a third floor fire escape...
     一个小男孩从3楼防火梯上摔了下来。
  2. The dog had tumbled down the cliff…
     那只狗已摔下了悬崖。
  3. He fell to the ground, and the gun tumbled out of his hand.
     他跌到地上，枪从手里摔了出去。
  4. Tumbleis also a noun.
     
  5. He injured his ribs in a tumble from his horse.
     他从马背上摔下来时伤到了肋骨。
• VERB (物价等)暴跌，剧降
  If prices or levels of somethingare tumbling, they are decreasing rapidly.
  1. House prices have tumbled by almost 30 per cent in real terms since mid-1989...
     房价自 1989 年中期以来实际上暴跌了近 30%。
  2. Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market.
     东京股市的股价今天继续暴跌。
  3. ...tumbling inflation.
     急剧下降的通货膨胀率
  4. Tumbleis also a noun.
     
  5. Oil prices took a tumble yesterday.
     昨天油价暴跌。
• VERB (水)冲刷，滚滚流过
  If watertumbles, it flows quickly over an uneven surface.
  1. Waterfalls crash and tumble over rocks.
     瀑布飞流直溅，冲刷着岩石。
  2. ...the aromatic pines and tumbling streams of the Zonba Plateau.
     松巴高原芬芳的松树与湍急的河流
• VERB 突然闯入（某地）;陷入，浑然不觉地进入(某种状态)
  If you say that someonetumbles intoa situation or place, you mean that they get into it without being fully in control of themselves or knowing what they are doing.
  1. Many mothers and children tumble into poverty after divorce...
     很多母亲和孩子在离婚后陷入贫困。
  2. There's no thought more pleasing than the prospect of tumbling into my apartment and slamming the door.
     没有比一头冲进自己的公寓摔上房门更让我开心的事了。
• See also:rough and tumble

双语例句

• As child mortality tumbles, so does fertility: fewer births are needed to achieve a given family size.
  随着儿童死亡率大幅下跌，生育率也大幅下降：创建一定规模的家庭所需生育的孩子减少了。
• When the bridegroom accompanies the bride marches into the nuptial chamber, the bride intentionally tumbles, breaks the egg, can give birth the children by this symbol.
  当新郎陪新娘步入洞房时，新娘故意跌倒，把鸡蛋碰破，以此象征能生育儿女。
• A block of weed tumbles onto my lane from below the expressway.
  一团滚草被风吹上了公路。
• If she tumbles into a sleep at the end of August, she'll lie torpid until the spring.
  到了八月底，她如果一头栽到床上，那就开始冬眠，一直睡到春天。
• They took a number of tumbles after a few minutes'rest.
  休息几分钟后他们又翻了几个筋斗。
• But if the discrepancies on the Shenzhen market are any indication, the NDRC's sanguine numbers probably conceal sizeable tumbles in the other cities.
  但是如果深圳数据的差异显出一些迹象的话，国家发改委的乐观数据可能掩盖了其它城市幅度相当大的房价下跌。
• Then cried he, What rumbles and tumbles Against my poor bones?
  它叫道：是什么东西，在碰撞我的骨头？
• One that tumbles, especially an acrobat or a gymnast.
  翻筋斗者翻滚者，尤指杂技演员或体操运动员。
• The injuries were mostly sustained in the age group of 20-40 years old in explosion and fire. Average age was 46.1 years old in flat land tumbles, but there was not apparent age distribution.
  爆炸火器伤见于20-40岁之间，平地跌倒无明显年龄阶段分布，平均年龄为46.1岁。
• These products would, for the first time, allow investors to hedge their positions against stock market tumbles.
  这些产品将首次允许投资者针对股市波动对冲自己的头寸。