tramp、tamp、stamp含义很像，为什么呢？

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英 [træmp]  美 [træmp]

v. （尤指长时间地）重步行走；（艰难地）长途跋涉；踩，踏

n. 流浪汉；沉重的脚步声；徒步旅行；（尤指令人疲惫的）长途跋涉；（航线不定的）货船；（非正式）淫妇；金属片；铲尖

n. (Tramp) （美）塔姆鄱（人名）

[ 复数 tramps 过去式 tramped 现在分词 tramping 第三人称单数 tramps ]

1. N-COUNT 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

例：

Hypothermia is common among tramps sleeping outdoors.

体温过低症在那些露宿户外的流浪汉中很普遍。

2. V-T/V-I If you tramp somewhere, you walk there slowly and with regular, heavy steps, for a long time. 脚步沉重地缓缓行走; 踏

例：

They put on their coats and tramped through the falling snow.

他们穿上大衣，在落雪中脚步沉重地缓缓走着。

3. N-UNCOUNT The tramp of people is the sound of their heavy, regular walking. 沉重的脚步声

例：

He heard the slow, heavy tramp of feet on the stairs.

他听见楼梯上缓慢而沉重的脚步声。

4. N-COUNT 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 [美国英语] [侮辱]

【中文词源】：

来自低地德语 trampen,踩，踏，跺脚，来自 Proto-Germanic*tremp-,踩，踏，来自 IE*der,步 行，走，跑，词源同 tread,trap.-amp,表音缀，比较 clamp,dump,lump.引申词义流浪汉，流浪 者等。

【英语词源】：

"person who wanders about, idle vagrant, vagabond," 1660s, from tramp (v). Sense of "steamship which takes cargo wherever it can be traded" (as opposed to one running a regular line) is attested from c. 1880. The meaning "promiscuous woman" is from 1922. Sense of "a long, toilsome walk" is from 1786.

vi. 流浪；践踏，踩；脚步沉重地行走

step , vagabondize

n. 流浪者；沉重的脚步声；徒步旅行