stumble

英 ['stʌmb(ə)l] 美 ['stʌmbl]

1. 死都要贪步会跌倒.
2. 谐音“死贪步” => 绊倒、犯错误。

stumble: stumble: [14] Stumble was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse *stumla. This would have come, along with its first cousin stumra ‘trip’, from a prehistoric Germanic base *stum-, *stam- ‘check, impede’, which also produced English stammer and stem ‘halt, check’.
=> stammer, stem
stumble (v.): c. 1300, "to trip or miss one's footing" (physically or morally), probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stumla, Swedish stambla "to stumble"), probably from a variant of the Proto-Germanic base *stam-, source of Old English stamerian "to stammer," German stumm, Dutch stom "dumb, silent." Possibly influenced in form by stumpen "to stumble," but the -b- may be purely euphonious. Meaning "to come (upon) by chance" is attested from 1550s. Related: Stumbled; stumbling. Stumbling-block first recorded 1526 (Tindale), used in Rom. xiv:13, where usually it translates Greek skandalon.
stumble (n.): 1540s, "act of stumbling," from stumble (v.). Meaning "a failure, false step" is from 1640s.

1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.: 他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。

2. As he drew abreast of the man he pretended to stumble.: 当他赶上那个男人时，他装出了要跌倒的样子。

5. Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.: stagger和stumble均指不稳的或身不由己的动作.