1.捣固,砸牢(路基等)
2.用黏土等填塞(装有炸药的洞口)
1.to press a substance down by hitting it several times with something heavy
1.The snow on the streets was no longer so white. Tamped down on the tarmac by the wheels of cars it looked more like ice.
街上的雪已不那么白了，马路上的被车轮轧下去，露出点冰的颜色来。
2.A week later, no smell could be detected as the workers tamped down a final layer of topsoil.
一周以后，当工人将最上层的表层土夯实以后，臭味就消失了。
3.The Chinese media tamped down outbursts of chauvinism which might have led to public protests.
为了担心导致公众抗议，中国媒体逐渐平息了沙文主义情绪的爆发。
4.To give myself time to think, I tamped down the tobacco in my pipe and then lit it slowly.
为了有时间思考，我把烟丝轻按几下，塞紧在烟斗里，然后慢慢地点着了烟。
5.Dry wood chips without sundries shall be filled into dilatation joints but they shall not be tamped.
填充膨胀缝的锯木屑，应采用干燥无杂物的锯木屑，填塞时不能捣实。
6.The farmers tamped down the earth around the base of the seedings .
农民们把幼苗基部四周的泥土压实。
7.He tamped the charred fire-laced logs into embers, opened the damper fully, and closed the brass fireplace screen.
他将烧焦了的木炭捣成余烬，打开风门，关上壁炉罩。
8.We're all born with spirit, all of us, but sometimes it gets tamped down beneath the challenges of life.
所有人的灵魂与生俱来，但常常会受到生活中各种困难的打击。
9.He tamped down the tobacco in his pipe and lit it.
他把烟丝压实在烟斗内，然后点燃它。
10.The poets , once so praised , are tamped unceremoniously together in our textbooks, in one curt chapter .
那些名噪一时的诗人，在今天的教科书里，已被毫不客气地挤在一起，列为短短的一章。