| 单词 | stalk |
| 释义 | stalk (stɔːk ) Word forms: stalks , stalking , stalked 1. countable noun The stalk of a flower, leaf, or fruit is the thin part that joins it to the plant or tree. A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk. ...corn stalks. Synonyms: stem, shoot, branch, stock 2. verb If you stalk a person or a wild animal, you follow them quietly in order to kill them, catch them, or observe them carefully. The hunter stalked the stag for days. [VERB noun] Synonyms: pursue, follow, track, hunt 3. verb If someone stalks someone else, especially a famous person or a person they used to have a relationship with, they keep following them or contacting them in an annoying and frightening way. Even after their divorce he continued to stalk and threaten her. [VERB noun] stalking uncountable noun The Home Secretary is considering a new law against stalking. 4. verb If you stalk somewhere, you walk there in a stiff, proud, or angry way. If his patience is tried at meetings he has been known to stalk out. [VERB adverb/preposition] Synonyms: march, pace, stride, strut 5. verb If you say that something bad such as death, fear, or evil stalks a place, you mean it is there. [literary] ...tales of famine stalking the streets of the city. [VERB noun] Collocations: stalk the stage Neither of those sad facts mean that this rogue, loveable or otherwise, shouldn't stalk the stage again. Times, Sunday Times The singer stalks the stage, loving every moment, the music, the attention. Times, Sunday Times Is she even human or a spirit conjured (and, at the end, conjured again) by the grotesque animal-headed figure stalking the stage? Times, Sunday Times The singer, who had changed into a pale grey suit, stalked the stage gracefully, kept chat to a minimum and beamed when he introduced his band. Times, Sunday Times He has been missing out whole verses of songs, stalking the stage moodily and changing the words of songs to goad members of the audience. Times, Sunday Times And, this autumn, there's a new spectre stalking the streets of the capital: the 1m house-price reduction. Times, Sunday Times Monstrous, 'unnatural' figures stalk the streets at night, and their secret words, once uttered, transform minds and ruin lives. The Times Literary Supplement Or maybe we're not so mild any more, given this outrageous weather and the youthful militancy stalking the streets. Times, Sunday Times All men under 40 must now serve in the army, regardless of whether they have already completed compulsory military service, and government press gangs stalk the streets. Times, Sunday Times Tanks and armed vehicles stalked the streets. The Sun It has a tall stalk rising from a rosette of leaves, and at the top of the stalk hang many little trumpets. Times, Sunday Times There are often 30 or 40 of them ranged up a tall stalk, which may grow five feet high. Times, Sunday Times The flowers are like bells, and grow in a long column at the top of a tall stalk. Times, Sunday Times A tall stalk emerges from the centre of these to present large red, orange and yellow flowers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pink flowers arise on a tall stalk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The vine also develops very thick stalk around the grape clusters which makes mechanical harvesting difficult. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The operculum consists of a long, thick stalk with a cartilaginous, cone-shaped plug at the distal end. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The thick stalk has a double ring which helps identify it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An inflorescence emerges on a thick stalk from the soil bearing solitary to densely bunched flowers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Strip the thick stalks from the leaves of cavolo nero, keeping as much of their natural shape as possible. Times, Sunday Times After 1687 the figure was changed again, to that of a saint, with a wheat stalk and a bunch of grapes in his hands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the farmers have struggled to bring in the wheat this week, pheasants have been running out of the fields where they have been feeding among the wheat stalks. Times, Sunday Times A belt from the flywheel drove a wheel found on the thresher, separating the wheat kernals from the wheat stalks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To the right, wheat stalks encircle the center of the coat of arms, and to the left arcs a branch of a coniferous tree. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Clovers adorn the left wheat stalks; flax flowers adorn the right. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 柄花、叶、果实与植株相连的, 尾随花、叶、果实与植株相连的 Japanese: 茎, あとをつける |
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