| 词汇 | stumble on/across/upon something |
| 释义 | stumble on/across/upon somethingstumble on/across/upon something phrasal verbphr v FINDto find or discover something by chance and unexpectedly 偶然发现[碰见] SYN come across Researchers have stumbled across a drug that may help patients with Parkinson’s disease. 研究人员偶然发现了一种或可治疗帕金森病的药物。 Examples from the Corpus stumble on/across/upon • Shame they couldn't have stumbled upon a more dramatic way of doing it.• You might stumble across a phrase or image that seems possible, but as a whole this faux scrapbook reeks.• You might even stumble upon a theorem or two in your researches.• In 1988, he stumbled across an indirect link in the scientific literature between Raynaud's disease and dietary fish oil.• But as I search deeper and deeper I stumbled upon endurance.• Geologists seem to stumble on some of the really oddball animals, assigning them delightful descriptors.• An hour later and our gasping, sweaty bodies stumble across the boulders of the gully's scree fan.• At that the discussion again broke down, but somehow they stumbled on to plans for a dance and a party. → stumble on/across/upon something at stumble(1) |
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