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In this episode, I am going to teach you an interesting and useful expression.
在本期节目中，我将教您一个有趣且实用的表达方式。
And that expression is "stumble upon." Stumble upon. That's stumble: s-t-u-m-b-l-e, upon: u-p-o-n. Stumble upon. What does it mean to stumble upon something?
这个表达方式是“stumble upon”。to stumble upon something是什么意思？
Before I tell you what this expression means, let's look at these two parts: stumble and upon. Do you know the verb stumble?
在我告诉您这个表达方式的含义之前，让我们先看看这两个部分：stumble和upon。您知道动词stumble吗？
To stumble means "to make a mistake" or "to trip when you are walking or running." In other words, "to almost fall when you are walking or running."
stumble的意思是“犯错”或“在走路或跑步时绊倒”。换句话说，“在走路或跑步时差点摔倒”。
And upon is kind of a fancy or maybe formal way of saying "on." That's what upon is.
upon是一种花哨的或正式的“on”的说法。
You will probably not hear the word upon very often in conversation, but you will hear it in this expression, "stumble upon."
在对话中，您可能不会经常听到upon这个词，但您会在“stumble upon”这个表达方式中听到它。
Okay, those are the parts. What do those parts mean when they go together?
这就是各个部分的含义。当它们组合在一起时，它们是什么意思？
"Stumble upon" means "to discover or learn something by chance, to discover or learn something without trying to, to discover or learn something without intending to, to discover or learn something just by luck."
“Stumble upon”的意思是“偶然发现或学习到某样东西，无意中发现或学习到某样东西。”
And so you might stumble upon an answer to a question. Or you might stumble upon a solution to a problem. Or you might stumble upon a great new idea.
因此，您可能会偶然发现问题的答案。或者您可能会偶然发现问题的解决方案。或者您可能会偶然发现一个绝佳的新想法。
If you discover something or learn something by accident—or without trying to or without even knowing you are looking for it—you can say that you stumbled upon it.
如果您偶然发现或学习到某样东西（或者没有尝试或甚至不知道自己在寻找它），您可以说you stumbled upon it。
I guess the idea is that if you stumble upon something, it's like you are walking down the street when you fall or almost fall. And you look down.
如果您stumble upon something，就像您在街上行走时摔倒或几乎摔倒。然后您低头看。
And there, on the ground, is the answer, or is something good. You almost fell, and you found something just by luck, right in the place where you almost fell.
而答案就在那里，在地上，是好东西。您几乎摔倒，但幸运地在几乎摔倒的地方找到了某样东西。
I guess that's where this expression comes from. This expression comes in two other, slightly different forms.
我想这就是这个表达的来源。这个表达还有另外两种略有不同的形式。
We can also say "to stumble onto something." Stumble onto. And we can say "to stumble on something." These all mean the same thing.
我们也可以说“to stumble onto something”。我们也可以说“to stumble on something”。这些都表示同一个意思。
They are just slightly different ways of saying it. And that is "stumble upon," an interesting and useful expression that I think you should know.
它们只是表达方式略有不同。以上就是“stumble upon”的用法，这是一个有趣且有用的表达方式，我认为你应该知道。
