tumble-down信息详情
adj.（等于tumbledown）摇摇欲坠的，即将坍塌的
tumble leaf───卷叶
tumble run───翻滚跑
tumble dry───用烘干机烘干
tumble tots───全部翻滚
tumble dryer───滚筒式烘干机；n.转筒式干燥机
tumble rugs───翻滚地毯
tumble math───翻滚数学
tumble tower───旋转塔
tumble bee───翻滚蜜蜂
Everything is loose in the house, and poor grandmother told me she was afraid that the house might tumble down.───房子里所有地方都松动了，可怜的奶奶告诉我她担心房子会倒塌。
with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.───和西西弗斯一样，巨石费力地向上滚动，结果又滚了下来，徒劳无功。
furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.───家具再简单不过了：一把很旧的椅子，一张摇摇欲坠的旧床，一张摇摇欲坠的桌子。
exclaimed his mother, "how came you to tumble down with such good trousers on? "───他母亲惊叫道：“你怎么搞的，穿着这么好的衣服摔跤了？”
when water was dropped on the waxy surface, it form water drops. They tumble down the surface when the leaf is tilted.───水滴落在上面会形成水珠，一旦页面倾斜，就会滚落下来。
And as she watched it tumble down the steep slope toward the sea of grass, she realized she must follow.───当她看着它顺着斜坡翻滚进草海时，她意识到自己必须跟着走。
Then, glittering like a star, it began to tumble down.───然后，犹如闪亮的星辰，铁饼开始向下坠落。
Most any other jet would probably tumble down into the trees.───许多其它的飞机在做这个动作时可能会翻滚着掉到地面。
But his tumble down the economic ladder is among the more disquieting and often hidden aspects of the downturn.───但是其在经济上的下滑，反映了衰退中更令人不安且不为人知的一面。
Most buildings are tumbledown and all but the main streets are eerily deserted.
Soon the neat stores were replaced by faded brownstones and tumbledown colonial houses.
We arrived at a tumbledown cottage, surrounded by overgrown rose bushes and a broken fence.
We moved on up to her tumbledown tower on the last crag of the village.
He lived in a small, tumbledown hut.
I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls.
The college was a collection of tumbledown old buildings in Paddington.
First - class hotel'was a complete misnomer for the tumbledown farmhouse we stayed in.
He ran across the empty alley between the tumbledown buildings and squeezed his way in through a crack in the sagging door.