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A tramp is an old-fashioned word for a person who has no home and no job, and who travels from place to place, sometimes sleeping outside — similar to 'a homeless ,' though it can sound rougher or less polite than 'homeless person' does today. As a verb, 'to tramp' means to walk with slow, heavy, tired steps, especially for a long distance — 'they tramped through the mud for hours.' There's also an older, slang use where 'tramp' is thrown at a woman as an insult, calling her sexually loose — this use can be quite offensive, so it's good to know it exists, but not one to use.
(舊式說法)流浪漢;或指沉重緩慢地走;(俚語、冒犯)水性楊花的女人
組成Possibly from old Germanic words meaning 'to stamp' or 'tread heavily' — the walking sense may be the original idea, with the 'homeless wanderer' meaning growing out of 'someone who tramps from place to place.'
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
trampnoun詞源 1/ˈtɹæmp/
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The act of walking with heavy steps.
- My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?
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derogatoryA homeless person; a vagabond.
- [S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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derogatoryA disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
- I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.
- Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.
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Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
- Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
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A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.
- The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
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Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.
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A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
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Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
trampverb詞源 1/ˈtɹæmp/
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To walk with heavy footsteps.
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To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
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To hitchhike.
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To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
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To travel or wander through.
- to tramp the country
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To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry.
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To scram; begone.
- She hesitated, “be off—tramp, march,” he exclaimed, in a tone which the poor girl dared not disobey. She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door.
- Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick.
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To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。