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Definition of bumble in English: bumbleverbˈbʌmb(ə)lˈbəmbəl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move or act in an awkward or confused manner. 笨手笨脚地进行；跌跌撞撞地前进；踉跄 they bumbled around the house 他们跌跌撞撞地在屋里乱转。 Example sentencesExamples - Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- After midnight he bumbles along, but listened to at other times of the day his eccentricities merely irritate.
- We bumbled around trying to figure out where to camp when a nice chap, although a bit of a wimp, invited us to join him at his campsite, which we happily did.
- If I hadn't done that, I'd probably still be bumbling along wondering why I could barely do a leg curl.
- He got up to follow her as she bumbled around the kitchen.
- Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
- Got back to the polling station, and the turnout was still bumbling along in its slow way, if much quieter than before.
- Nevertheless Owen, having hit a post in the previous game and again unnerved Argentina with his speed, was a disappointment while Heskey bumbled around.
- The Flames have stumbled and bumbled around the offensive zone all series, particularly when the incomparable Iginla hasn't been on the ice.
- The sport is used to moving at a leisurely pace, and bumbled along happily enough for 116 years before it got around to holding its first World Cup.
- He bumbled around working out what he needed, so green around the gills, that one had to laugh.
- Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue.
- Comments by Lam to the effect that life is a never-ending process of self-examination seem unintentionally at odds with the reality of characters who are bumbling along semi consciously.
- A.I. (artificial intelligence) warriors occasionally join the party, bumbling along beside you and setting charges to open doors and clear obstructions for you.
- Society will ‘spend’ lives on lots of things, and it would be nice if we did so with some amount of introspection rather than just by bumbling along.
- His IQ was plummeting at each attempt, so to keep him from reaching zero I slowly edged by as he bumbled around on the roadside readying for another go.
- At first he appears unassuming and on occasion bumbling yet his disarming manner, like that of Louis Theroux, is one that seems to entice his interviewee into spilling the beans.
- It's a welcome change to see Hugh Grant play the role of a devious weasel instead of the awkward, bumbling, confused nice guy in his previous films.
- All through Coronation Street he bumbled around, not ever quite standing out.
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
Synonyms blunder, lurch, stumble, wobble, lumber, shamble, shuffle, stagger, totter, teeter, reel, weave, pitch, muddle, flounder, falter Scottish & Northern Irish sprauchle blundering, bungling, amateurish, incompetent, inept, unskilful, inexpert, clumsy, maladroit, gauche, awkward, inefficient, muddled, oafish, clodhopping, stumbling, lumbering, foolish, useless crude, botched informal ham-fisted, ham-handed, cack-handed 2no object Speak in a confused or indistinct way. 模糊不清地讲话 the succeeding speakers bumbled Example sentencesExamples - When he won, the elite questioned whether the college dropout was up to running the country and scoffed at his reputation as a bumbling public speaker, bon vivant and serial womanizer.
- Legislative Assembly Speaker Judy Maddigan was not there, although bumbling and soon departing Jim Claven was, chairing the meeting so tragically that Bracksy didn't even notice him.
- He stumbles up and bumbles through an introduction, reminding her that they've worked in the same shop for four years.
- And in a parliamentary debate before the war, he rescued a bumbling John Major by speaking passionately in favour of war.
- On top of which, while Gzowki's bumbling style of questioning barely masked a furious desire to get at the truth, Rodgers' trademark giggle is just plain annoying and hides little.
- On the one hand I field calls from the ‘old’ Graham, who in his usual endearingly bumbling way will ask me where and when this year's Open Championship is being held.
- Now when he visits my work area, he doesn't awkwardly bumble about with the mail trolley looking flustered.
- Highly recommended, other than the slight shock of discovering that that pompous idiot is still allowed to bumble away incoherently in this the 21st century.
Synonyms ramble, babble, burble, drivel, gibber, blather, mumble, mutter, stumble - 2.1with adverbial (of an insect) buzz or hum.
（昆虫）嗡嗡作响 she watched a bee bumble among the flowers 她看着蜜蜂在花丛中嗡嗡地飞来飞去。 Example sentencesExamples - The bee bumbled too close to the snake for my comfort.
- A bee bumbles along near the Alyssum in the garden, importantly busy.
- A fat bee bumbled past, hardly clearing the ground.
Synonyms hum, drone, whir, fizz, fuzz, hiss, sing, murmur, whisper
Derivativesnounˈbʌmbləˈbəmblər He was unpopular, seen as a political bumbler, and during his time hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in massive pro-democracy protests. Example sentencesExamples - The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler.
- For the poor bumblers then go forth, believing that even though they can't understand how the world works, they can nevertheless figure out how to make it work better!
- Yet satire requires more than a cast of bumblers.
- Not a few biographies of Napoleon portray him as a megalomaniac (for which there is real evidence in the later years of the empire) and even a bumbler.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'hum, drone'): from boom1 + -le4. Rhymescrumble, fumble, grumble, humble, jumble, mumble, rough-and-tumble, rumble, scumble, stumble, tumble, umbel Definition of bumble in US English: bumbleverbˈbəmbəlˈbəmbəl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move or act in an awkward or confused manner. 笨手笨脚地进行；跌跌撞撞地前进；踉跄 they bumbled around the house 他们跌跌撞撞地在屋里乱转。 Example sentencesExamples - After midnight he bumbles along, but listened to at other times of the day his eccentricities merely irritate.
- Got back to the polling station, and the turnout was still bumbling along in its slow way, if much quieter than before.
- Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue.
- It's a welcome change to see Hugh Grant play the role of a devious weasel instead of the awkward, bumbling, confused nice guy in his previous films.
- All through Coronation Street he bumbled around, not ever quite standing out.
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
- He bumbled around working out what he needed, so green around the gills, that one had to laugh.
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- His IQ was plummeting at each attempt, so to keep him from reaching zero I slowly edged by as he bumbled around on the roadside readying for another go.
- A.I. (artificial intelligence) warriors occasionally join the party, bumbling along beside you and setting charges to open doors and clear obstructions for you.
- We bumbled around trying to figure out where to camp when a nice chap, although a bit of a wimp, invited us to join him at his campsite, which we happily did.
- The sport is used to moving at a leisurely pace, and bumbled along happily enough for 116 years before it got around to holding its first World Cup.
- Comments by Lam to the effect that life is a never-ending process of self-examination seem unintentionally at odds with the reality of characters who are bumbling along semi consciously.
- Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
- If I hadn't done that, I'd probably still be bumbling along wondering why I could barely do a leg curl.
- At first he appears unassuming and on occasion bumbling yet his disarming manner, like that of Louis Theroux, is one that seems to entice his interviewee into spilling the beans.
- He got up to follow her as she bumbled around the kitchen.
- Nevertheless Owen, having hit a post in the previous game and again unnerved Argentina with his speed, was a disappointment while Heskey bumbled around.
- Society will ‘spend’ lives on lots of things, and it would be nice if we did so with some amount of introspection rather than just by bumbling along.
- The Flames have stumbled and bumbled around the offensive zone all series, particularly when the incomparable Iginla hasn't been on the ice.
Synonyms blunder, lurch, stumble, wobble, lumber, shamble, shuffle, stagger, totter, teeter, reel, weave, pitch, muddle, flounder, falter blundering, bungling, amateurish, incompetent, inept, unskilful, inexpert, clumsy, maladroit, gauche, awkward, inefficient, muddled, oafish, clodhopping, stumbling, lumbering, foolish, useless 2no object Speak in a confused or indistinct way. 模糊不清地讲话 the succeeding speakers bumbled Example sentencesExamples - Now when he visits my work area, he doesn't awkwardly bumble about with the mail trolley looking flustered.
- When he won, the elite questioned whether the college dropout was up to running the country and scoffed at his reputation as a bumbling public speaker, bon vivant and serial womanizer.
- Legislative Assembly Speaker Judy Maddigan was not there, although bumbling and soon departing Jim Claven was, chairing the meeting so tragically that Bracksy didn't even notice him.
- And in a parliamentary debate before the war, he rescued a bumbling John Major by speaking passionately in favour of war.
- Highly recommended, other than the slight shock of discovering that that pompous idiot is still allowed to bumble away incoherently in this the 21st century.
- On the one hand I field calls from the ‘old’ Graham, who in his usual endearingly bumbling way will ask me where and when this year's Open Championship is being held.
- On top of which, while Gzowki's bumbling style of questioning barely masked a furious desire to get at the truth, Rodgers' trademark giggle is just plain annoying and hides little.
- He stumbles up and bumbles through an introduction, reminding her that they've worked in the same shop for four years.
Synonyms ramble, babble, burble, drivel, gibber, blather, mumble, mutter, stumble - 2.1with adverbial (of an insect) buzz or hum.
（昆虫）嗡嗡作响 she watched a bee bumble among the flowers 她看着蜜蜂在花丛中嗡嗡地飞来飞去。 Example sentencesExamples - A fat bee bumbled past, hardly clearing the ground.
- The bee bumbled too close to the snake for my comfort.
- A bee bumbles along near the Alyssum in the garden, importantly busy.
Synonyms hum, drone, whir, fizz, fuzz, hiss, sing, murmur, whisper
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘hum, drone’): from boom + -le. |