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单词 to put to a stand
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to put (a person) to a stand
b. A state of being unable to proceed in thought, speech, or action; a state of perplexity, indecision, or hesitation. Chiefly in to be at a stand, to put (a person) to a stand. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] > resulting in inaction
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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.
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