Stocks
[stɔks]
解释:
(noun.) a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked.
(noun.) a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod.
(noun.) a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction.
约西亚整理--From WordNet
同义词及近义词：
n. pl. [1]. Funds (invested in joint-stock enterprises or in the obligations of a Government), public funds, public securities.[2]. Shares (in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a Government).
录入:罗兰
娱乐性解释：
An unreliable commodity bought and sold by gamblers. If you win, it's an investment; if you lose, a speculation.
整理:马文
例句:
- Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Tell her she shall be put in the stocks if she does not take herself off, replied the magistrate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- So, there was a double palpitation among the double stocks and double wall-flowers, when the master and the boy looked over the little gate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Finally the English government ordered eight or ten of such machines for the making of gun-stocks for its army, and paid Blanchard about $40,000 for them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, they did not breed or willingly perch on trees. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Stocks which had been accumulating for years now went off in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Some of the Arabs use them to this day in the form of strange-looking guns with long, slender muzzles and very light, curved stocks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Some of them withdraw a part of their stocks from the trade, and the market is more sparingly supplied than before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- These were sold On Change, much as stocks are now sold on Wall Street. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But I manage pretty well, getting in great stocks from Liverpool, and being served in butcher's meat by our own family butcher. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Under an altar by the door was a pair of stone stocks for human legs. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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