tumbling

1. VERB 滚下;摔倒;跌落;翻滚而下
   If someone or something tumbles somewhere, 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. Tumble is 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。
2. VERB (物价等)暴跌，剧降
   If prices or levels of something are 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. Tumble is also a noun.
      
   5. Oil prices took a tumble yesterday.
      昨天油价暴跌。
3. VERB (水)冲刷，滚滚流过
   If water tumbles, 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
4. VERB 突然闯入（某地）;陷入，浑然不觉地进入(某种状态)
   If you say that someone tumbles into a 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。
5. See also: rough and tumble

1. A canny investor would need to predict when the dollar will once more start tumbling
   精明的投资者需要预计到美元何时会再次大跌。
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。
3. If the foundations are flawed the house will come tumbling down.
   如果地基不牢，房子将会倒塌。
4. Following the noise, we looked towards the East and saw a waterfall tumbling down from halfway up the mountain.
   我们寻声向东望去，只见一片瀑布从半山腰里倾泻而下。
5. You have come out in the morning to play in the courtyard, tottering and tumbling as you run.
   你在早晨就跑出来到天井里玩儿，你，跑着就像摇摇欲跌似的。
6. It included singing, tumbling, and acrobatics as well as martial arts skills and acting.
   它包括歌唱、翻跟斗、杂技，还有武术技巧和表演。
7. I remember asking her, holding up the faded blue dictionary, and the story came tumbling out.
   我想起我举着这本褪色的蓝色辞典，询问我的母亲，这个故事就此翻江倒海地展现出来。
8. The old barn we bought to convert into flats was practically tumbling down.
   那个旧谷仓我们买下想改建住房的，实际上已经快塌了。
9. Team name and team members names, date of birth and category entered, for the TUMBLING RUN race.
   队名字和队成员名字，生日和范畴进入了，为跌倒的跑赛跑。
10. The puppies were tumbling about on the floor.
    小狗在地板上打着滚。
11. This probably accounts for the beneficial effect of a holiday by the sea, or in the mountains with tumbling streams or waterfalls.
    这说明了在海边或是有翻滚的溪流和瀑布度假有益健康。
12. It has taken vast intervention to prevent the dollar from tumbling against these currencies.
    这些国家采取了大规模的干预行动以阻止美元兑亚洲国家货币汇率急剧下跌。
13. Using six times more fan blowing tumbling.
    采用六次翻转多台风机吹。
14. The boy is just learning to walk; he is always tumbling over the floor.
    小男孩正在学走路，所以他总是在地板上跌倒。
15. Stones tumbling from the villa roof hit him on the shoulders and one glanced off his skull as he was lying on the ground.
    别墅屋顶上的石头塌了下来，打在他的肩膀上，一块石头从他的脑壳上擦了过去，他栽倒在地了。
16. It feels like the1970s: economies weakening, inflation accelerating, the US dollar tumbling and oil prices surging.
    这些情况，给人的感觉跟上世纪70年代很像：经济疲软，通胀加速，美元下跌，油价猛涨。
17. Tumbling shares of listed newspaper firms have prompted fury from investors.
    上市报业公司的股票急剧下跌，让投资商大为恼火。
18. Tumbling stock markets and credit crunches always unnerve.
    不断下挫的股市和信贷紧缩总是令人失去勇气。
19. At one point I took a step backward and went tumbling. The crowd bore back a little.
    有一次，我后退一步，却栽了个跟头。大家退后了一点儿。
20. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.
    他跌了一大跤，却不在意，继续干活。杰克摔了一跤摔破了王冠，吉尔跌跌撞撞走了上来。
21. She remembered him tumbling into the black of space.
    她记得他翻着跟头消失在黑暗的太空里。
22. The announcement sent the dollar tumbling and set off fears about inflation, which can be exacerbated by a weak greenback.
    被送美元翻筋斗的公告和引起了对通货膨胀的恐惧，可以由一张微弱的美钞恶化。
23. One of a breed of domestic pigeons characteristically tumbling or somersaulting in flight.
    翻飞鸽飞行中会摇摆或翻转的一种家鸽。
24. She pushes him and sends him tumbling downstairs.
    她推了他一下，使他滚下了楼梯。
25. In Finland a programme of tobacco control, public education and dietary advice had seen lung cancer rates tumbling.
    芬兰实施了一项控制烟草的计划，包括进行公众教育和饮食建议，成效显著，肺癌患病率持续下降。
26. Unfortunately, the economy is likely to totter again as the second-round effects of tumbling profits and rising unemployment squeeze investment and consumer spending.
    不幸的是，由于暴跌的利润和增加的失业挤出了投资和消费性支出所导致的第二轮的影响，经济看起来摇摇欲坠。
27. Tumbling stock indices suggested that it had been sucked into the much more volatile world of global capitalism.
    波动的股票指数表明，中国已经融入更加不稳定的全球资本主义世界。
28. The floor exercises should include tumbling skills, balance, flexibility, strength, grace, rhythm and personality.
    自由体操应包括：筋斗技术，平衡，柔韧，力量，优美，节奏和个性。
29. But the banks had not entirely escaped the impact of tumbling stock and bond prices.
    但银行没能完全避开股票和证券价格暴跌产生的冲击。
30. The researchers suggest that cramped quarters limit the tumbling motion that facilitates the string weaving through the coils.
    研究人员表示是有限的空间抑制了会促成绳子交织在一起的绳子做翻滚的动作。

noun

1. the gymnastic moves of an acrobat

   Synonym:    acrobatics