| 词汇 | stomping-ground |
| 释义 | stomping ground noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈstɒm.pɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/ us /ˈstɑːm.pɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/(mainly UKstamping ground) a place or area that someone is very familiar with and where they like to spend time: 常出没的地方 The band returned to their old stomping ground last night - and gave one of their best ever gigs. Do you ever go back to any of our old stamping grounds?你有没有回到过我们过去常出没的地方？ Synonym haunt It's my guess he is trying to reach his old stomping ground. They’re in a building only a couple of streets from some of my old stomping grounds. Auction houses like Christie's were once considered the private stamping ground of a select few. Visiting attraction beard the lion (in his/her den)idiom been call (in) on someone call by exchange happen happen along/by (somewhere) haunt have access to someone/something homestay pay pop regular round state visit stay stop by (somewhere) stop in stop off somewhere Examples of stomping groundstomping ground These have all spread into the area which in the nineteenth century was almost the monopoly stampingground of the friendly societies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A world that had become a kind of stampingground for the internationally lawless would not be worth living in at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What about my old stampingground, the theatre? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would use its failure as a stampingground for their demands for total separation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am pleased in one sense, because it enables me to return to a former stampingground. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But that is also the background of those who live there, and their stampingground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was an old stampingground of mine for a number of years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My normal stampingground is economic policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Wales has become, and is regarded by these councils, as a stampingground for local councillors and aldermen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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