单词 | tramp |
释义 | tramp I. intransitive verb 1. a. < a steady stream of visitors tramps every day through the magnificent exhibition — Mollie Panter-Downes > < man who was tramping across the square in climbing boots — Willa Cather > < heard them tramp upstairs — Arnold Bennett > < tramp on someone's toes > b. < tramped down on the gas pedal — Oakley Hall > 2. a. < spent his holidays tramping all over our native land — Joseph Conrad > < finds relaxation in … tramping in the woods — Current Biography > < tramped and climbed among the heights — H.N.Fowler > b. 3. a. < three tiny steamers tramping between Suez and Mukalla — Ladislas Farago > b. transitive verb 1. < tramp grapes for wine > < dig out the ground three feet deep, put in a foot of straw, leaves, or coarse litter, wet it thoroughly, and tramp it down one half — Emily Holt > < tramping the top of your silage 10 to 15 minutes a day for a week after filling will reduce top spoilage — Deerfield (Wisc.) Independent > 2. a. < rode the subways and tramped the streets — E.A.Weeks > < a naturalist tramping the forests > b. < left home to tramp his way over the country — R.L.Taylor > II. 1. a. < youthful tramps in search of work — Siegfried Kracauer > b. < the tramp reappeared time and again as the hero of screen adventures — Lewis Jacobs > c. < the rigid stateside demarcations between the nice girl and the tramp — Christian Science Monitor > < a girl who can't quite make up her mind whether she wants to be a wife or a kept woman or just a tramp off to try her luck in New York — Wolcott Gibbs > 2. < forth for a long tramp — C.G.Bowers > < go for tramps on Saturday afternoons — Elizabeth Bowen > 3. < the dry ground was packed from the tramp of thousands of cattle and horses — J.F.Dobie > also 4. < the rhythmic tramp of marching armies — C.T.Lanham > < the tramps of so many horses — Walt Whitman > 5. a. b. 6. or tramp ship or tramp steamer 7. < tended to set up violent shimmy and tramp on the front end at high speeds — Roger Huntington > 8. Synonyms: see vagabond III. 1. < a tramp dog > < a tramp printer > < a tramp and vagrant world, adrift in space — William James > 2. < whenever tramp iron threatens to contaminate a process or product, damage machinery, or give rise to sparking, magnets are the sentries that keep it out — Steelways > |
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