“tumble、down”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

tumble-down

释义

ˈtumble-down, a. (n.)
[the phrase tumble down used attrib. or as n.]
†a. Of a horse: That falls down habitually. Obs. rare^—1.
1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. i. (1809) 67 The Noble Puzzle for Tumble down Horses.
b. That is in a tumbling condition; falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated, ruinous.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, His old tumble-down tower yonder.1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, The parsonage here's a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for gentry to live in.1898N. & Q. 9th Ser. II. 124 One of the grimiest and most tumbledown of the many dilapidated craft.
c. absol. as n. A tumble-down house. rare.
1866Howells Venet. Life vii, The tumble-down is patched up and sold at rates astonishing to innocent strangers who come from countries in good repair, where the tumble-down is worth nothing.

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