| 词组 | stomp, stamp |
| 释义 | stomp, stamp Stomp originated in American English as a dialectal variant of stamp, first recorded in the early 19th century. The passing years have seen it gain steadily in respectability. Its status in current English is that of a standard synonym of stamp in several of its senses, all having to do, literally or figuratively, with bringing the foot down heavily: • ... she angrily stomped out of the office —Current Biography, December 1966 • ... resist the temptation to stomp on him when he's down —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 14 Oct. 1978 • ... I heard the horses stomping in the stable —E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979 • On national television, he stomped a folding chair and verbally abused players —Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated, 3 Feb. 1986 These uses of stomp are generally uncontroversial, although their somewhat informal quality attracts occasional comment. Stomp is most likely to be criticized when it occurs in such a phrase as stomp one's feet. The usage panels of Heritage 1969 and Heritage 1982 reject this use of stomp in favor of stamp by a large majority, but this use has much the same quality as the other uses of stomp, and its occurrence in edited writing is just as common: • ... while I stood there stomping my feet against the cold —John McNulty, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 1953 • Moses LaMarr ... stomped his foot and opened his mouth wide as an alligator —Truman Capote, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 1956 • ... a way of stomping one's foot on the ground and saying, "Enough! ..." —Carll Tucker, Saturday Rev., 29 Apr. 1978 • ... an enclosed vestibule where people stomp their boots in winter —Andrew H. Malcolm, N. Y. Times Mag., 23 Mar. 1986 The Heritage dictionaries also note that stamp rather than stomp is the verb used with out for the figurative sense "eliminate entirely" (as in "stamp out poverty"). Our evidence confirms this observation: • ... to stamp out some of the potent and concrete conditions behind it, such as race prejudice —Frederic Wertham, Johns Hopkins Mag., Summer 1971 • ... was able to stamp out addiction in five years — Horace Sutton, Saturday Rev., 17 Mar. 1979 |
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