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政治演说

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stump \Stump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stumping}.]
   1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

            Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. --Dr. H.
                                                  More.

   2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
      fixed; to stub. [Colloq.]

   3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.]

   4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering
      purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See {To go
      on the stump}, under {Stump}, n. [Colloq. U.S.]

   5. (Cricket)
      (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the
          bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is
          defending while he is off his allotted ground; --
          sometimes with out. --T. Hughes.
      (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.

                A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped
                the wicket.                       --Tennyson.

   {To stump it}.
      (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang]
          --Ld. Lytton.
      (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]

资料来源 : WordNet®

stumping
     n : campaigning for something by making political speeches
         (stump speeches)