中文词源
tamp 捣实，压紧
回构自 tampion,塞子，炮栓，引申词义捣实，压紧，鼓捣。
英语词源
- tamp (v.)
- 1819, "to fill (a hole containing an explosive) with dirt or clay before blasting," a workmen's word, perhaps a back-formation from tampion, that word being mistaken as a present participle (*tamping).
权威例句
- 1. Then I tamp down the soil with the back of a rake.
- 然后我用耙子的背将土壤拍实。
- 2. Tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso.
- 在容器中捣实咖啡粉来煮浓咖啡.
- 3. Now, China wants to tamp such nationalism down.
- 现在, 中国希望压制民族主义.
- 4. The first step is to set up programs in order to tamp the development foundation.
- 第一步上项目,夯实发展基础.第二步快发展,壮大经济总量.
- 5. But the Chinese government also appears to trying to tamp down interest in the case.
- 但中国政府似乎正试图平息公众对事件的兴趣.