stump
stump 英 [stʌmp] 美 [stʌmp]
n. 树桩；残根；假肢 vt. 难倒；笨重地行走；巡回演说
进行时:stumping 过去式:stumped 过去分词:stumped 第三人称单数:stumps 名词复数:stumps
- There are three ways to stump: you can ask someone a question they can't answer, you can travel making political speeches, or you can stomp.
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- n. 树桩；残根；假肢
- vt. 难倒；笨重地行走；巡回演说
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1. the stump of a pencil
铅笔头
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2. politicians on the stump
作巡回演说的政治人物
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3. I'm stumped. I don't know how they got here before us.
我搞不懂了。我不知道他们怎么比我们来得还早。
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4. Kate was stumped for words .
凯特张口结舌。
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5. He stumped off, muttering under his breath.
他嘴里嘟哝着，脚步重重地走了。
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6. He stumped around the country trying to build up support.
他在全国各地巡回演讲，争取更多的支持。
- stump (n.) "part of a tree trunk left in the ground after felling," mid-15c. (implied from late 13c. in surnames); from mid-14c. as "remaining part of a severed arm or leg;" from or cognate with Middle Low German stump (from adjective meaning "mutilated, blunt, dull"), Middle Dutch stomp "stump," from Proto-Germanic *stamp- (source also of Old Norse stumpr, Old High German stumph, German stumpf "stump," German Stummel "piece cut off"), from PIE *stebh- "post, stem; to support" (see step (v.).
- stump (v.) early 13c., "to stumble over a tree-stump or other obstacle" (obsolete), from the source of stump (n.). From 1590s as "reduce to a stump." Sense of "walk stiffly and clumsily" is first recorded c. 1600. Sense of "baffle, bring to a halt by obstacles or impediments" is first recorded 1807, American English, perhaps in reference to plowing newly cleared land, but compare earlier sense "to challenge, dare" (1766).
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