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tum·ble·down /ˈtʌmbəldaʊn/ adjective [only before noun] CONDITION/STATE OF somethinga tumbledown building is old and beginning to fall down 〔房屋〕摇摇欲坠的 a tumbledown cottage 摇摇欲坠的村舍Examples from the Corpustumbledown• Most buildings are tumbledown and all but the main streets are eerily deserted.• We arrived at a tumbledown cottage, surrounded by overgrown rose bushes and a broken fence.• That financial crisis weathered, Zyuganov will then have to find the money for large-scale state investment in tumbledown factories.• The college was a collection of tumbledown old buildings in Paddington.tum·ble·down adjectiveChineseSyllable is Corpus down tumbledown to and a old building beginning fall |