stamp

1. N-COUNT A stamp or a postage stamp is a small piece of paper which you lick and stick on an envelope or package before you mail it to pay for the cost of the postage. 郵票

...a book of stamps. …一本郵票冊。

As of February 3rd, the price of a first class stamp will go up to 29 cents. 自2月3日起，每張一等郵票的價格將上漲到29分。

2. N-COUNT A stamp is a small block of wood or metal which has a pattern or a group of letters on one side. You press it onto an pad of ink and then onto a piece of paper in order to produce a mark on the paper. The mark that you produce is also called a stamp. 印章; 印記

...a date stamp and an ink pad. …一個日期印章和一個印泥。

3. V-T If you stamp a mark or word on an object, you press the mark or word onto the object using a stamp or other device. 蓋 (章); 印 (某標(biāo)記); 打上 (某字)

Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification number at several places on new cars to help track down stolen vehicles. 汽車生産商們在新車車身的幾個地方打上車輛識別碼以幫助追查被盜車輛。

4. V-T/V-I If you stamp or stamp your foot, you lift your foot and put it down very hard on the ground, for example because you are angry or because your feet are cold. 跺 (腳); 跺腳; 重重地踩

Often he teased me till my temper went and I stamped and screamed, feeling furiously helpless. 他過去經(jīng)常取笑我直到我生氣，又跺腳又尖叫，感覺非常無助。

His foot stamped down on the accelerator. 他一腳猛地踩下油門。

5. N-COUNT Stamp is also a noun. 跺腳

...hearing the creak of a door and the stamp of cold feet. …聽到門的吱嘎聲和因腳冷而跺腳的聲音。

6. V-I If you stamp somewhere, you walk there putting your feet down very hard on the ground because you are angry. (因生氣而) 頓足

"I'm going before things get any worse!" he shouted as he stamped out of the bedroom. “我要在情況變得更糟前離開！”他叫嚷著頓足走出了臥室。

7. V-I If you stamp on something, you put your foot down on it very hard. (在…上) 用力踩

He received the original ban last week after stamping on the referee's foot during the final. 在決賽中狠狠地踩了裁判的腳之後，他上周受到首次禁賽処罸。

8. N-SING If something bears the stamp of a particular quality or person, it clearly has that quality or was done by that person. 印記

Most of us want to make our home a familiar place and put the stamp of our personality on its walls. 我們大多數(shù)人都想把我們的家佈置成溫馨的地方竝在牆壁上畱下我們個性的印記。

9. →see also rubber stamp