| 单词 | tramp |
| 释义 | tramp (once / 324 pages) 1vn 2nv 3n Tramp means to walk or stomp heavily. Your midnight tramp to the kitchen for milk and cookies doesn't thrill your downstairs neighbors. Tramp comes from the German trampen, for "stamp." If you walk heavily, people will say you tramp, but if you're going on a tramp, that means you're going for a long walk or hike. If someone calls you a tramp, they either mean you're a slut or a hobo — each meaning comes vagrant, or wanderer, and the low-life behaviors associated with vagrants. WORD FAMILYtramp: tramped, tramper, tramping, tramps+/tramper: trampers USAGE EXAMPLESGuillot’s days are spent tramping across some of the country’s most expensive real estate, and he’s played a key role in the landscape’s transformation. Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016) "I've tried hard and failed miserably, I've used up one pair of shoes tramping around trying to find this address without success." BBC(Nov 11, 2016) The rise in the number of discoveries reflects a growing interest in tramping around in muddy fields with metal detectors. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) 1 1v travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition We went tramping about the state of Colorado Hyper hike walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise 2v cross on foot We had to tramp the creeks Hyper cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse travel across or pass over 3v walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud Syn|Hypo|Hyper footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish walk through mud or mire walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 4n a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) Syn|Hypo|Hyper hiker, tramper backpacker, packer a hiker who wears a backpack footer, pedestrian, walker a person who travels by foot 5n a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure Syn|Hypo|Hyper hike, hiking trudge a long difficult walk walk the act of walking somewhere 6n a heavy footfall 2the tramp of military boots Hyper footfall, footstep, step the sound of a step of someone walking 1n a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule Syn|Hyper tramp steamer steamer, steamship a ship powered by one or more steam engines 2v move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander drift, err, stray wander from a direct course or at random wandergo via an indirect route or at no set pace maunder wander aimlessly gad, gallivant, jazz aroundwander aimlessly in search of pleasure go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 1n a disreputable vagrant a homeless tramp Syn|Hypo|Hyper bum, hobo dosser, street person someone who sleeps in any convenient place drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support 2n a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex Hyper debauchee, libertine, rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained |
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