Stall
[stɔːl] or [stɔl]
解释:
(noun.) a tactic used to mislead or delay.
(noun.) a booth where articles are displayed for sale.
(noun.) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
(noun.) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
(noun.) a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; 'the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it'.
(verb.) deliberately delay an event or action; 'she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling'.
(verb.) come to a stop; 'The car stalled in the driveway'.
(verb.) cause an engine to stop; 'The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car'.
(verb.) cause an airplane to go into a stall.
(verb.) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.
(verb.) put into, or keep in, a stall; 'Stall the horse'.
布丽奇特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
(v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.
(v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
(v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
(v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
(v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
(v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
(v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
(v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
(v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
(v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
(v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
(v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.
(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
(v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.
(v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
(v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
凯西整理
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Stable.[2]. Compartment (as in a stable), cell, recess.[3]. Stand (where things are sold), shop, booth.[4]. Seat (for a dignitary in the choir of a church).
v. a. [1]. Put in a stable, keep in a stable.[2]. Set fast (as in mire), fix in a slough.
埃尔顿校对
解释:
n. a place where a horse or other animal stands and is fed: a division of a stable for a single animal: a stable: a bench or table on which articles are exposed for sale: one of the seats in churches reserved for the clergy and choir usually lining the choir or chancel on both sides also an office entitling one to such a seat or its stipend: a reserved seat in a theatre usually one of those in the front division of the parquet—orchestra stalls.—v.t. to put or keep in a stall.—v.i. to inhabit.—n. Stall′age liberty of erecting stalls in a fair or market: rent paid for this liberty.—adj. Stalled kept or fed in a stall fatted.—v.t. Stall′-feed to feed and fatten in a stall or stable.—ns. Stall′ing (Tenn.) stabling; Stall′inger (prov.) a keeper of a stall; Stall′man one who keeps a stall for the sale of any article; Stall′-reader one who stands and reads books at a bookstall.
弗朗西斯整理
娱乐性解释:
To dream of a stall, denotes impossible results from some enterprise will be expected by you.
黛拉校对
例句:
- He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- An six hundred crowns, said Isaac, the good Prior might well pay to your honoured valours, and never sit less soft in his stall. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The book-stall keeper got into the coach; and away they drove. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Do you see that old cove at the book-stall? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- This done, and just as I was bidding him farewell, I happened to glance towards the book-and-newspaper stall. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He would not deny himself one enjoyment; not his opera-stall, not his horse, not his dinner, not even the pleasure of giving Lazarus the five pounds. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I could spend all day every day at the stalls of the book fair as I once did in the days before the movement, if I ever could have any time in Madrid. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Look at that infernal sly-boots of a Tapeworm, Fipps whispered, examining his chief from the stalls. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We were in the stalls, and for a few minutes there was a most terribleruthless pressure about us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He occupied an excellent place, some twelve or fourteen seats from the end of a bench, within three rows of the stalls. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Emmy and the Major blushed: we saw them from the stalls. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I'm stalled o' t' curates, and so is t' wife. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The column did not move, although, on the other side beyond the stalled vehicles I could see the troops moving. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The column stalled again in the night and did not start. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Well has Solomon said--Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- When they were finally and completely stalled, the wheels dug in to the hubs, we left them in the field and started on foot for Udine. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- A dinner of herbs is better than a stalled ox very often. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
厄纳校对