| 单词 | to make stand | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (a) stand  a.  The action or an act of standing in place. Also with reference to a person in motion: the act of coming to a position of rest; a pause or halt in movement (esp. in  to make (a) stand). Cf. sense  2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > 			[noun]		 > state of cessation of movement > act of arrestc1385 stop?1575 stand1591 the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > be resolute or determined			[verb (intransitive)]		 > make a firm stand to make (a) stand1591 to put one's foot down1833 to stand up to one's lick-logs1834 1591    G. Clayton Approoued Order Martiall Discipline  i. 15  				He is to accompany the watch to place of stand. 1600    W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice  ii. vi. 2  				This is the penthouse vnder which Lorenzo desired vs to make stand [1623 make a stand] .       View more context for this quotation a1640    J. Fletcher et al.  Beggers Bush  v. i, in  F. Beaumont  & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. 		(1647)	 sig. Mm2v/1  				Why dost thou make These often stands? thou saidst thou knewst the way. 1700    J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite  i, in  Fables 8  				At ev'ry Turn, she made a little Stand, And thrust among the Thorns her Lilly hand To draw the Rose. 1827    D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports 		(ed. 2)	 208  				He made a stand at one of them, and appeared to deposit something. 1898    D. Wingate in  Ballads & Poems 		(Glasgow Ballad Club)	 2nd Ser. 272  				But bairns cam' hame and stauns cam' roun', A trade depressed brang wages doun. to make (a) stand  b.  With reference to thoughts, speech, etc.: the act of coming to a stop, pause, or halt. Chiefly in  to make (a) stand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > 			[noun]		 > a temporary cessation of activity or operation pause1440 trip1584 interpause1595 wem1599 stand1602 vacation1617 interspiration1623 intercisiona1631 interregnum1659 lapse1838 shutdown1857 break1878 slip1898 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 1602    J. Marston Antonios Reuenge  ii. iii. B2v  				And thrice, deluded by erroneous sense, I forc't my thoughts make stand. a1616    W. Shakespeare King John 		(1623)	  iv. ii. 39  				And we are all well pleas'd, Since all, and euery part of what we would Doth make a stand, at what your Highnesse  will.       View more context for this quotation a1641    R. Montagu Acts & Monuments 		(1642)	 536  				Had these narrators made a stand here,..they had found nor contradiction nor discommendation. 1709    R. Steele Tatler No. 33. ⁋7  				But by Heaven, and all that's Sacred! If you could ——. Here he made a full Stand. 1726    Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 127  				It was not unthinking carelessness, by which he run on headlong in Vice and Folly, without ever making a stand to ask himself what he was doing. < as lemmas  | 
	
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