Stump

(noun.) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket.

(noun.) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed.

(noun.) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.

(verb.) remove tree stumps from; 'stump a field'.

(verb.) cause to be perplexed or confounded; 'This problem stumped her'.

(verb.) travel through a district and make political speeches; 'the candidate stumped the Northeast'.

手打:萨拜娜

• Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The _Sequoia Gigantia_ reproduce from cones, while the redwoods reproduce from suckers that grow from the stump. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I sought a seat for him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree; nor did I refuse to let him, when seated, place me on his knee. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It is a mere stump--a ghastly sight! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This animal also uses its long neck as a means of offence or defence, by violently swinging its head armed with stump-like horns. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Cut them well back, so the stumps cannot be seen. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Boffin will get all the eagerer for waiting a bit,' says Silas, screwing up, as he stumps along, first his right eye, and then his left. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Stir your stumps and get some more sticks. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• What would you think of a man who stared in ecstasy upon a desert of stumps and said: Oh, my soul, my beating heart, what a noble forest is here! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So I think we are stumped and baffled! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With this agreeable promise Wegg stumped out, and shut the shop-door after him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For these reasons Mr Boffin passed but anxious hours until evening came, and with it Mr Wegg, stumping leisurely to the Roman Empire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The atomspear,' said Wegg, stumping back into the room again, a little reddened by his late exertion, 'is now freer for the purposes of respiration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If I get on with him as I expect to get on,' Silas pursues, stumping and meditating, 'it wouldn't become me to leave it here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But, when night came, and with her veiled eyes beheld him stumping towards Boffin's Bower, he was elated too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The stumping approach of Wegg was soon heard behind it, and as it turned upon its hinges he became visible with his hand on the lock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Golden Dustman seemed about to pursue these questions, when a stumping noise was heard outside, coming towards the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr Boffin had but whispered an affirmative response, when Wegg came stumping in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

录入:威廉敏娜