| 单词 | hoard |
| 释义 | hoard (hɔːʳd ) Word forms: hoards , hoarding , hoarded 1. verb If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you. They've begun to hoard food and gasoline and save their money. [VERB noun] Consumers did not spend and create jobs; they hoarded. [VERB] The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: save, store, collect, gather hoarder Word forms: hoarders countable noun Most hoarders have favorite hiding places. Synonyms: saver, miser, collector, squirrel [informal] 2. countable noun A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to you or you do not want other people to have. The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m. [+ of] Synonyms: store, fund, supply, reserve Collocations: hoard food These talks are about freeing up trade in food, just as some nations begin to hoard food in the expectation of shortages. Times, Sunday Times And just as the hungry person may hoard food, he or she may also have the urge to hoard cash — and not give it to others. Times, Sunday Times They will hoard food in small, buried stores. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They often carry the food back to their burrow to eat it, although they do not hoard food or hibernate through the winter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was particularly serious since farmers began to hoard food. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People buy and hoard gold in times of uncertainty, economic and political. Times, Sunday Times Many of the people who hoard gold today expect hyperinflation, and are hedging against it by holding specie. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His 100 franc pieces 1929-1936 did not circulate, but were used as a convenient way to hoard gold. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Feeling runs very high against those who in selfishness and panic are hoarding gold and buying up large stocks of provisions. Times, Sunday Times Both countries have a long tradition of hoarding gold, often in the form of jewellery, as a form of personal saving. Times, Sunday Times Subconsciously or not, we hoard information. Times, Sunday Times Destroy the silos [his term for hoarded information] that are there. Times, Sunday Times Many of the engineers have stories about a person hoarding information or prioritizing his next promotion but finding himself pushed effortlessly aside or even out of the agency. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many people hoard money by buying more television licence stamps than they need. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He had devoted his life to hoarding money. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Banks claim regulators are forcing them to hoard money. The Sun (2008) But some were prepared to divert a part of these hoarded monies to mass transit. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century (1994) Romantic comedy adventure following a bickering couple who are reunited in their quest to locate a legendary hoard of treasure. The Sun When they arrive they discover a hoard of treasure and decide to stay with it overnight to carry it away the following morning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gaining entry, they discover inside a glittering hoard of treasure gold, silver and jewels in a vast pile of splendour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The work of these disparate practitioners may, for the most part, be well-recognised internationally, but their private hoards of treasures have seldom, if ever, been publicly shown here. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 贮藏 Japanese: ため込む |
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