Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense tramps, present participle tramping, past tense, past participle tramped
1N-COUNT 流浪汉;流浪乞丐;游民 A tramp is a person who has no home or job, and very little money. Tramps go from place to place, and get food or money by asking people or by doing casual work. 流浪汉;流浪乞丐;游民
2VERB (长时间地)拖着沉重的步子走 If you tramp somewhere, you walk there slowly and with regular, heavy steps, for a long time. (长时间地)拖着沉重的步子走
They put on their coats and tramped through the falling snow. [VERB prep./adv.]
他们穿上外套,拖着沉重的步子行走在飞雪中。
She spent all day yesterday tramping the streets, gathering evidence. [VERB noun]
4N-COUNT 荡妇;淫娃 If someone refers to a woman as a tramp, they are insulting her, because they think that she is immoral in her sexual behaviour. 荡妇;淫娃 [mainly US, offensive, disapproval]
➡ See also the entry for traveller另见traveller条tramp ♦︎ vagrant ♦︎ beggar ♦︎ drifter ♦︎ bum ♦︎ scroungerThese are all words for a person who travels from place to place and/or asks people for food or money.这些词均表示流浪汉、乞丐。NOTE辨析 All the words in this group are disapproving or slightly disapproving. A frequent and more neutral way of talking about sb without a home is simply to say a homeless person/man/woman.本组所有的词都含贬义或稍带贬义。表示无家可归的人更常用的中性说法是homeless person/man/woman◆The number of young homeless people is on the rise.无家可归的青少年人数有上升趋势。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆an old tramp / beggar / bum■tramp [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who travels from place to place, usually asking people in the street for food or money(常指在大街上乞讨的)流浪汉,流浪乞丐◆An old tramp was sitting on a bench.一个老流浪汉坐在长椅上。■vagrant ˈveɪgrənt [countable] (formalorlaw法律) a tramp流浪汉;流浪乞丐◆The accused was a vagrant who travelled around, sleeping in parks and bus shelters.被告人是一个四处游走的睡在公园和候车亭的流浪汉。■beggar ˈbegə(r) [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who lives by asking people for money or food乞丐;叫花子◆There were a number of beggars sleeping in doorways.有一些乞丐睡在门口。 see also beg ⇨ borrow■drifter [countable] (especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who moves from one job or place to another with no real purpose漂泊者;盲流◆Several hundred drifters spend the night in the park.几百个游民在公园过夜。■bum [countable] (informal, especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who asks other people for money or food; a person who does no work, but spends a lot of time in a place, doing very little流浪乞丐;无业游民◆The city at night intimidated me with the bums and dealers shouting out abuse.这座城市入夜后会有流浪汉和摊贩大声叫骂,让我惊恐不安。◆He left college to lead the life of a beach bum(= sb who spends all their time on the beach, without having a job).他离开了学校,终日在海滩游荡。■scrounger ˈskraʊndʒə(r) [countable] (especially BrE, informal, disapproving) a person who gets sth from sb by asking them for it rather than by paying for it; a person who gets money from the government without working for it向他人索要物品者;不工作向政府讨救济的人◆He's such a scrounger. He tried to get me to pay his air fare home.他就知道伸手讨便宜,想让我给他买回家的机票。◆The government has launched a campaign against welfare scroungers.政府已经发起了一个运动,抵制钻福利制度漏洞的懒虫。 see also scrounge ⇨ borrow