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trundle + adv./prep.
表示车辆等缓慢沉重地移动，常接方向状语。
The old bus trundled slowly up the hill.
那辆旧公交车缓慢地爬上山坡。
缓慢沉重地移动；滚动
trundles — third person singular of trundle
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
缓慢沉重地移动；滚动
to move slowly and heavily, especially on wheels
The old bus trundled slowly up the hill.
那辆旧公交车缓慢地爬上山坡。
(尤指推着)使(带轮物体)缓慢或沉重地滚动。
To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
用带轮工具(尤指推车)运送(某物或某人)。
To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
(在轮子上)沉重地移动。
To move heavily (on wheels).
移动(某物或某人),通常沉重或笨拙地。
To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
trundle
Base
原形
trundles
3rd person
第三人称单数
trundling
-ing
现在分词
trundled
Past
过去式
trundled
Past participle
过去分词
The cart trundles along the cobblestone street.
手推车沿着鹅卵石街道缓缓滚动。
She trundled the suitcase across the station.
她拖着行李箱穿过车站。
The old man is trundling his shopping cart home.
老人正推着购物车慢慢回家。
动词侧重沉重缓慢地滚动或移动；规则动词。
The old cart trundles down the bumpy road, loaded with apples.
满载苹果的旧手推车在崎岖的路上缓缓前行。
She trundled the suitcase across the station floor to the platform.
她把手提箱缓缓拖过车站地板，走向站台。
A heavy cart was trundling along the cobbled street.
一辆沉重的板车正沿着鹅卵石街道缓缓行进。
表示车辆等缓慢沉重地移动，常接方向状语。
The old bus trundled slowly up the hill.
那辆旧公交车缓慢地爬上山坡。
及物用法，宾语为带轮子或较重的东西，后接方向状语。
He trundled the cart down the narrow path.
他推着手推车沿着狭窄的小路缓缓前行。
被动句式，常用于医护人员推着病床或担架移动的场景。
The patient was trundled into the emergency room.
病人被缓缓地推进了急诊室。
Not this
The child's bicycle trundle across the yard.
Use this
The child's bicycle trundles across the yard.
主语 the child's bicycle 是第三人称单数，一般现在时动词必须加 -s 变成 trundles。中文动词没有形态变化，学习者容易漏掉这个 s；加上后主谓一致才正确。
Not this
The old truck trundled the country road.
Use this
The old truck trundled along the country road.
当 trundle 表示“缓慢沉重地移动”时是不及物动词，不能直接把“道路”当作宾语。要表达移动的路径，需要用 along/down 等介词引导；加上 along 后，语义是“沿着乡间道路缓缓行驶”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
缓慢移动；慢悠悠地走
The old car trundled along the country road.
那辆旧汽车在乡村小路上缓慢行驶。
沿…缓慢向下移动
The children trundled down the hill on their scooters.
孩子们骑滑板车缓缓下坡。
慢吞吞地离开；走开
After lunch, he trundled off to his study.
午饭后，他慢吞吞地走向他的书房。
拖着行李箱移动
She trundled her suitcase through the crowded station.
她拖着行李箱缓缓穿过拥挤的车站。
抽拉床；滚轮床
The spare room has a trundle bed for guests.
客房有一张给客人用的抽拉床。
搬出（旧论点、数据等）；反复拿出
Every time the debate starts, he trundles out the same tired arguments.
每次辩论一开始，他就搬出那些老生常谈的论据。
缓慢而平稳地进行；慢悠悠地前进
The project is trundling along nicely, though no one expects it to finish early.
项目正在稳步推进，不过没有人预期它会提前完成。
Use trundles naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
想象小推车的脚轮咕噜咕噜滚动，trundle 就是那沉重缓慢的滚动声。
语域：mixed 常见场景：furniture and cart wheels、narrative descriptions of heavy or slow movement trundle 作名词时指小轮或脚轮，多用于家具、推车等具体物件；作动词时表示沉重或缓慢地滚动、移动，比较常见于叙述或描写性文字。整体使用场景较具体，语气随文体变化。
Only bundle (/ˈbʌndəl/) truly rhymes with trundle (/ˈtrʌndl/). The other -dle words here (handle, candle, dwindle, swindle, kindle) look similar but have different vowel sounds, so they are spelling lookalikes, not rhymes. Words like puddle and muddle are also close-looking but lack the /n/ before /d/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.