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单词 amble
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Definition of amble in English:

amble

verbˈamb(ə)lˈæmbəl
  • no object, with adverbial of direction Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.

    they ambled along the riverbank
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As we ambled along, we noticed signs in Chinese engraved on the cliff walls which our guide translated for us as we went along.
    • Hiding outside a bar is a good idea, as he does here, concealing himself behind a lamp post when a young woman emerges and ambles uncertainly in his direction.
    • Twenty minutes later, a black guy in a red shirt comes ambling along.
    • He laughs, ambles back to the cashier and returns with the missing drink.
    • No recognition came to mind and she ambled along, kicking pebbles of dry, golden dirt as she went.
    • The game is being played at walking pace at the moment and if the Italian players were ambling around any slower they'd be stationary.
    • 'I think I'd like to have a look at the sort of thing we're downloading, so just email me the address,’ he says, ambling at a slow run to get back to his desktop in time.
    • She just ambles around the place, then gets to the track and wins her races.
    • Storey stretches and ambles towards the shower.
    • As she slowly ambles back to her own home, she feels betrayed somehow.
    • She ambles quickly in the direction the kids had taken.
    • The mist was still lifting off the big lake in the park at Windsor, and only a few joggers and moochers ambled about along the narrow path, that circles the lake.
    • His mom, sister, and brother ambled about, along with his dad, walking with a cane and wearing a hearing aid.
    • The great writer and scholar Iris Murdoch, addled and disoriented by advanced Alzheimer's Disease, ambles out of her Oxford house and into the city.
    • They tend to amble along in the beginning, bogged down in trivialities.
    • Nothing much happens and when it looks like the film is set to take a certain path, it gets distracted and ambles off on its own.
    • It was Damien, ambling at an easy pace on the sidewalk.
    • A little girl ambles along in her communion dress.
    • The only hint that he is 63-years-old is his slow step as he ambles to the witness chair and takes a seat behind the microphone.
    • He caught sight of his dog and began a slow amble towards us.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, wander, meander, ramble, dawdle, promenade, walk, go for a walk, take a walk, roam, traipse, stretch one's legs, get some exercise, get some air, take the air
    Scottish &amp Irish stravaig
    informal mosey, tootle
    British informal pootle, bimble, mooch, swan
    North American informal putter
    rare perambulate, peregrinate
nounˈamb(ə)lˈæmbəl
  • A walk at a slow, relaxed pace, especially for pleasure.

    a peaceful riverside amble
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A quick amble about the station revealed that the left luggage lockers were closed and sealed due to the security precautions.
    • This amble alongside the River Kent is perfect for a contemplative outing and perhaps better suited to an adult group than to children, writes Harriet Sharkey.
    • If you're ever wandering around there, take an amble into the bar and grab a seat, if one is available.
    • Greenbank is a demonstration garden where people can glean practical and creative ideas either from a leisurely amble or from the programme of courses and guided walks.
    • The ducks on the river were managing the torrents and we thought we could manage the riverside amble.
    • One of the nicest and simplest ski-free activities is simply to go for a walk, as I discover when I take a gentle amble from Sunnbüel to the Schwarenbach mountain hut.
    • A short amble onwards, the streets become shambolic, messy, invested with noise and life.
    • But a stiff amble around its cobbled streets, taking in the fierce castle and the quaint medieval Baroque theatre installed in a former granary in the square, confirmed my good first impressions.
    • Sunday, with my ankle still hurting from a sprain on the walk back, the most I could manage was an amble round the Waterfalls walk, and a stop in the pub.
    • A short amble about soon revealed there was nowhere to eat out in Chaource on a Monday.
    • Thursday meant a hangover and a pleasant amble around the charity shops of Broomhill.
    • But all too soon the boat had chugged slowly past St Mark's Square, into the Grand Canal and up to the small landing stage a short amble from our hotel.
    • Staying nearby in the creeper-fronted Hotel Raphael, we crossed the square each time we set out on or returned from our long ambles around the city.
    • It's a pleasant amble, wide and straight, passing beneath bridges, through cuttings and woodland, with glimpses across open countryside to distant fells.
    • I headed out for a walk this afternoon, but had to turn back about 10 minutes into my amble.
    • The shots rang out just after 11 on a sultry summer's evening, just as the last of the regulars were drifting away from the pub for a slow amble home.
    • He finally saw her walking fast down the hall and he slowed to an amble a few meters away from her.
    • For instance, in the new building where my amble ended, walking among paintings which are themselves familiar, it's possible to feel a colder, rougher, emptier island which is unfamiliar.
    Synonyms
    walk, hike, trek

Derivatives

  • ambler

  • nounˈambləˈæmblər
    • The tower now stands out, loud and proud, flanked by two green open parks and the colourful wharf, with a riverside walk guiding amblers up to its refurbished doors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The streets of central Cairo, Luxor and Aswan are more secure for the ambler than those in the inner-city regions of many Western capitals.
      • There are trails in Upper Wensleydale for a wide range of fitness and experience levels from garden-gate amblers to serious hill walkers.

Origin

Middle English (originally denoting a horse's gait): from Old French ambler, from Latin ambulare 'to walk'.

  • ambulance from early 19th century:

    First used in the Crimean War, an ambulance was originally a mobile temporary hospital—a field hospital—that followed an army from place to place. The term was later applied to a wagon or cart used for carrying wounded soldiers off the battlefield, which in turn led to its modern meaning. Ambulance comes from the French hôpital ambulant, literally ‘walking hospital’: the root is Latin ambulare, ‘to walk’, which gave us words such as alley (Late Middle English), amble (Middle English), and early 17th-century ambulate (a formal way of saying ‘walk’). Ambulance chaser is a wry nickname for a lawyer. The first example of the term, from 1897, tells us that ‘In New York City there is a style of lawyers known to the profession as “ambulance chasers”, because they are on hand wherever there is a railway wreck, or a street-car collision…with…their offers of professional services.’

Rhymes

bramble, Campbell, gamble, gambol, ramble, scramble, shamble
 
 

Definition of amble in US English:

amble

verbˈambəlˈæmbəl
  • no object, with adverbial of direction Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.

    they ambled along the riverbank
    he ambled into the foyer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She ambles quickly in the direction the kids had taken.
    • He laughs, ambles back to the cashier and returns with the missing drink.
    • The mist was still lifting off the big lake in the park at Windsor, and only a few joggers and moochers ambled about along the narrow path, that circles the lake.
    • He caught sight of his dog and began a slow amble towards us.
    • No recognition came to mind and she ambled along, kicking pebbles of dry, golden dirt as she went.
    • Storey stretches and ambles towards the shower.
    • The great writer and scholar Iris Murdoch, addled and disoriented by advanced Alzheimer's Disease, ambles out of her Oxford house and into the city.
    • They tend to amble along in the beginning, bogged down in trivialities.
    • It was Damien, ambling at an easy pace on the sidewalk.
    • Nothing much happens and when it looks like the film is set to take a certain path, it gets distracted and ambles off on its own.
    • The only hint that he is 63-years-old is his slow step as he ambles to the witness chair and takes a seat behind the microphone.
    • Twenty minutes later, a black guy in a red shirt comes ambling along.
    • His mom, sister, and brother ambled about, along with his dad, walking with a cane and wearing a hearing aid.
    • Hiding outside a bar is a good idea, as he does here, concealing himself behind a lamp post when a young woman emerges and ambles uncertainly in his direction.
    • A little girl ambles along in her communion dress.
    • As we ambled along, we noticed signs in Chinese engraved on the cliff walls which our guide translated for us as we went along.
    • As she slowly ambles back to her own home, she feels betrayed somehow.
    • 'I think I'd like to have a look at the sort of thing we're downloading, so just email me the address,’ he says, ambling at a slow run to get back to his desktop in time.
    • She just ambles around the place, then gets to the track and wins her races.
    • The game is being played at walking pace at the moment and if the Italian players were ambling around any slower they'd be stationary.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, wander, meander, ramble, dawdle, promenade, walk, go for a walk, take a walk, roam, traipse, stretch one's legs, get some exercise, get some air, take the air
nounˈambəlˈæmbəl
  • A walk at a slow, relaxed pace, especially for pleasure.

    a peaceful riverside amble
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For instance, in the new building where my amble ended, walking among paintings which are themselves familiar, it's possible to feel a colder, rougher, emptier island which is unfamiliar.
    • This amble alongside the River Kent is perfect for a contemplative outing and perhaps better suited to an adult group than to children, writes Harriet Sharkey.
    • Greenbank is a demonstration garden where people can glean practical and creative ideas either from a leisurely amble or from the programme of courses and guided walks.
    • The ducks on the river were managing the torrents and we thought we could manage the riverside amble.
    • But a stiff amble around its cobbled streets, taking in the fierce castle and the quaint medieval Baroque theatre installed in a former granary in the square, confirmed my good first impressions.
    • It's a pleasant amble, wide and straight, passing beneath bridges, through cuttings and woodland, with glimpses across open countryside to distant fells.
    • Sunday, with my ankle still hurting from a sprain on the walk back, the most I could manage was an amble round the Waterfalls walk, and a stop in the pub.
    • Thursday meant a hangover and a pleasant amble around the charity shops of Broomhill.
    • If you're ever wandering around there, take an amble into the bar and grab a seat, if one is available.
    • But all too soon the boat had chugged slowly past St Mark's Square, into the Grand Canal and up to the small landing stage a short amble from our hotel.
    • A short amble about soon revealed there was nowhere to eat out in Chaource on a Monday.
    • A short amble onwards, the streets become shambolic, messy, invested with noise and life.
    • One of the nicest and simplest ski-free activities is simply to go for a walk, as I discover when I take a gentle amble from Sunnbüel to the Schwarenbach mountain hut.
    • Staying nearby in the creeper-fronted Hotel Raphael, we crossed the square each time we set out on or returned from our long ambles around the city.
    • He finally saw her walking fast down the hall and he slowed to an amble a few meters away from her.
    • The shots rang out just after 11 on a sultry summer's evening, just as the last of the regulars were drifting away from the pub for a slow amble home.
    • A quick amble about the station revealed that the left luggage lockers were closed and sealed due to the security precautions.
    • I headed out for a walk this afternoon, but had to turn back about 10 minutes into my amble.
    Synonyms
    walk, hike, trek

Origin

Middle English (originally denoting a horse's gait): from Old French ambler, from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’.

 
 
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