tumble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 跌倒, 摔下, 滚下; 翻滚; 不由自主地卷入; (价格等) 暴跌; n. 跌倒, 摔，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this heat-ed tirade, this outflow of passionate words and ecstatic ideas which seemed to hustle and tumble over each other as they fell from his lips, bore evidence of some unusually disturbed mental condition in the young fellow who had 'boiled over' in such a remarkable manner, without any ap-parent reason.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eyes were full, and I felt as if I weregoing to tumble down.
-- I redden, tumble over half a dozen words,and stop.
-- I tumble downbefore I get to the old place, at a point where I was all right before, 57and stop to think.
-- I take my little wife to my heart; and Miss Lavinia givesa little scream because I tumble the bonnet, and Dora laughs andcries at once, because I am so pleased; and I believe it less thanever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being cast upon the world by his master's death, he determined to go through it upon his head and hands, and accordingly began to tumble for his bread.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief to him, and waited till he was out of sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There I was, on Joe's back, and there was Joe beneath me, charging at the ditches like a hunter, and stimulating Mr. Wopsle not to tumble on his Roman nose, and to keep up with us.
-- As if it were an absolute point of good breeding that it should tumble off again soon.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, 'how came I to tumble into the mill?'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Uthwaite down in the valley, with all the steel threads of the railways to Sheffield drawn through it, and the coal-mines and the steel-works sending up smoke and glare from long tubes, and the pathetic little corkscrew spire of the church, that is going to tumble down, still prick-ing the fumes, always affected Connie strangely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were summarily shut into the close black house; and the figure rustling away, and speaking from a higher level, said, 'Come up, if you please; you can't tumble over anything.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm sure Aunt March is a regular Old Man of the Sea to me, but I suppose when I've learned to carry her without complaining, she will tumble off, or get so light that I shan't mind her.'
-- gasped Beth, holding onto Jo and feeling as if she should tumble down, it was such an overwhelming thing altogether.
-- But you have got on bravely, and I think the burdens are in a fair way to tumble off very soon,' said Mr. March, looking with fatherly satisfaction at the four young faces gathered round him.
-- The ever-green arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hang-ing baskets were filled.
-- Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant's treasures, if I remember rightly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?
-- 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.
-- First, the whales forming the margin of our lake began to crowd a little, and tumble against each other, as if lifted by half spent billows from afar; then the lake itself began faintly to heave and swell; the submarine bridal-chambers and nurseries vanished; in more and more contracting orbits the whales in the more central circles began to swim in thickening clusters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course," replied Pencroft, "and we must take care not to tumble into a hole."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent, and about ready to tumble in, The people had moved out of them.
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