| 单词 | to lay in a stock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay in a stock a. A quantity (of something specified, whether material or immaterial) accumulated for future use; a store or provision to be drawn upon as occasion requires. Phrase, to lay in a stock. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply breastOE store1297 teata1382 sponge1603 resource1611 fund1628 quarry1630 stock1638 fond1685 feeder1817 stockpile1942 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store store1487 store1520 reserving1530 staple1549 forestore1556 conserve1586 budget1597 magazine1615 stock1638 stowaway1913 dump1915 bank1918 stockpile1942 1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. i. 4 Let him..gather a stock of them, and lay them up for his use. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xi. 126 A Prince (as writers report) having a sufficient stock of valour in himself, but little happie in expressing it. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 391 By making this agreement with them he put them into such a stock of Reputation, that [etc.]. 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 137 But oh, what stock of Patience wants the Fool, Who wasts his Time and Breath in Teaching School! 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 142 When he has acquir'd to himself a good stock of reputation perhaps he will not envy ours. 1728 J. Gay Let. to Swift 16 May I..am in hopes to lay in a stock of health. 1738 Common Sense (1739) II. 112 She dyes, alters, and turns her little Stock of Finery into all the Changes which Fancy and Affectation produce in every Brain of Quality. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 109. ⁋1 You have not yet exhausted the whole stock of human infelicity. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 133 When..a stock of provisions sufficient to support them the whole way, would be more than they could carry,..they [etc.]. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 14 I wanted a Stock of Words. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 221 That stock of general truth, for the branches of which they contended with their blood. View more context for this quotation 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 305 It is frequently observed in the inoculated cow-pox. I have seen it..after I had been using matter from the same stock for upwards of three years. 1812 P. B. Shelley Devil's Walk xvi For he is fat,..How vast his stock of calf! 1843 J. Pycroft Hints to Freshmen 16 Lay in a stock of Bryant's Regalias and Castle's Sylvas, to acquire condition in your absence. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 228 The stock of cannon balls was almost exhausted. 1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 81 An ever-increasing stock of glass negatives. < as lemmas |
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