Stead
[sted] or [stɛd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; 'can you go in my stead?'; 'took his place'; 'in lieu of'.
手打:穆里尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Place, or spot, in general.
(n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
(n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
(n.) A farmhouse and offices.
(v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
(v. t.) To fill place of.
錄入:撒迦利亚
解釋/意思:
n. the place which another had or might have: a fixed place of abode: use help service as in 'To stand in good stead.'—n. Steading the barns stables &c. of a farm.
康拉德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A praetor, therefore, was appointed to administer it in his stead. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The philosopher himself has lost the love of truth, and the soldier, who is of a simpler and honester nature, rules in his stead. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And Dr. Pillule is my very good friend, was the answer, in perfect English; but he is busy at a place three leagues off, and I am come in his stead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio, I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What would you advise me to use in its stead, father? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- And purchase in his stead some sweetly pooty pug or poodle--something appropriate to the fair sex. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He has given me in its stead perfect love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But no deep plan, no careful cunning could have stood him in such good stead. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- If the man's heer, Slackbridge, let's hear the man himseln, 'stead o' yo. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Her dignity stood her in no stead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
錄入:罗宾逊