Picture feet coming down hard and moving on, again and again, over something lying on the ground. The weight does not stop and lift off ; it passes across, and whatever was there is left flat.

可以想成一雙雙腳重重地落下,然後繼續往前走,一次又一次地踩過地上的東西。重量不是小心地放上去再收回來,而是整個輾過去。等腳走遠了,原本在那裡的東西已經扁了。trample 的各種用法,都可以從這個「重量走過去、東西留在腳下」的畫面長出來。

From the word’s history

From Middle English tramplen, to walk heavily: tramp plus the -le ending that means doing something over and over. One heavy step is a tramp; many of them, on top of something, is a trample.

來自中古英語 tramplen(重重地走),也就是 tramp 加上表示「重複做」的 -le。一步重重的是 tramp,一直踩、踩在東西上面,就成了 trample——重複這件事本來就寫在字裡。

Wiktionary, trample, supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1067748393)

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