| 单词 | to be at a stand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be at a stand a. A state of checked or arrested movement; a standstill. Chiefly in to be at a stand, to come to a stand, to bring or put (a person or animal) to a stand. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement standinga1398 stay1525 stand1584 consistence1598 still-stand1600 station1603 standstilla1646 dead lock1781 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 61 Bearing to that coast where the sunne is at a stand in winter. 1623 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden (ed. 2) vii. 20 At the fal of the leafe..about that time is ye greatest stand (but not descent) of sap. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 10 The Winds shrank upon us from off the Coast of Ginea..and had left us at a stand. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. iv.* 139 Nor could he ever be persuaded to believe..that at the first pass he came to, his whole army would be put to a stand. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xvii. 310 We were..brought to a stand on this very plain by severe fever. 2019 @LNER 18 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 19 Sept. 2019) The 09:30 #KingsCross to #Edinburgh has come to a stand with a train fault. to be at a stand ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] > resulting in inaction nonplus1582 full stopa1586 stand1625 nonplussation1833 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 2 One of the later Schoole of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to thinke what should be in it, that men should loue Lies. 1629 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum 71 Friers..being men of great mark..drew theyr Convents..with them; and thereby set the rest in such an amazement and stand, that the Pope grew in a general great jealousie of them all. 1657 E. D'Oyley Let. 28 Feb. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VI. 834 The prints telling me, that the heads of their people are..accounted conspirators..hath put me to some stand how to carry myself towards them. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) IV. 212 There is one point however that puts me to a stand. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 337 It remains only to consider the proofs of financial ability... Here I am a little at a stand; for credit, properly speaking, they have none. View more context for this quotation a1822 P. B. Shelley Poet. Wks. (1870) II. 360 With a bottle in one hand, As if his very soul were at a stand, Lionel stood. < as lemmas |
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