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kemp

/kemp/US // kɛmp //UK // (kɛmp) //

坎普,凯普

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : British Dialect. a strong, brave warrior.an athlete, especially a champion.a professional fighter.an impetuous or roguish young man.
    • : Scot. and North England. a contest, as between two athletes or two groups of workers, especially a reaping contest between farmworkers.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Scot. and North England. to contest, fight, or strive, especially to strive in a reaping contest.

Examples

  • Two years later, Kemp beat Abrams by about a point and a half.

  • The school district had four months to determine how to reopen after Kemp closed schools across the state in early April and classes went remote.

  • Having a larger number of staff working part time hasn’t seemed to harm the agency’s ability to win pitches, having converted around 80% of the agency’s new business this year, according to Kemp.

  • As Kemp reported on each new development, her following grew.

  • Kemp, before this election, introduced the “use it or lose it” protocol.

  • The police learned that Kemp worked in a grocery on Decatur Avenue.

  • The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”

  • The investigation is ongoing, but Kemp has yet to make public any evidence of widespread fraud by the group.

  • The first is former Congressman Jack Kemp, whom Paul worked for in Washington.

  • But Kemp belongs to a different time, and that time has now been long in passing.

  • She was built of cedar, and her lines and midship section are given in Dixon Kemp's 'Boat-sailing.'

  • There is certainly no lack of either about this idyll of Elizabeth Kemp of the lissome limbs and auburn hair.

  • Kemp-Welch was the only member of our party left, the rest proceeding homeward by another route.

  • Mrs. Kemp said she always knew 't was a great risk, and that was why she didn't have me bound.

  • Until your last note I had not heard that Mr. Kemp's seeds had produced two Polygonums.