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单词 to stand up to
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to stand up to
b. to stand up to.
(a) intransitive. To meet, face, or withstand (an opponent, situation, etc.) courageously.See also to stand up to the rack at rack n.4 1e.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > confront
abidec1275
stand?1316
visagec1386
bidec1400
to stand to ——1562
affront1569
to look (a person, etc.) in the face1573
outface1574
front1582
to meet with1585
confront1594
propose1594
to stand up to1596
outfront1631
to stand forth to1631
head1682
meet1725
the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > one who braves danger > defy danger (person or thing) [verb]
face1570
dare1580
out-countenancec1585
to stand up to1596
outdare1598
to carry it off1663
to take the bull by the horns1711
brave1776
the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > rise or be standing [verb (intransitive)] > be standing > in water, mud, etc., up to knees
to stand inc1175
to stand up to1596
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > resist > maintain resistance against
to stand before ——OE
bearOE
tholec1175
sustainc1330
last1340
suffera1387
support1483
outstand1571
hold1592
to hold outa1616
ridea1649
brunt1800
to stand up to1921
1596 H. Broughton Daniel ii. H3 Three kinges stande vp to Paras: and the fourth shalbe farre richer then they all.
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 27 He stood up to me And mated my commands.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word)Stand up to him’ (ring); do not flinch from the blows.
1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiii. 307 He found few antagonists able to stand up to him in the boxing ring.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 102/1 Few men..ventured to stand up boldly to such terrific bowling.
1894 Speaker 9 June 640/1 He knuckled under to any one who chose to stand up to him.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 94/2 There [sc. Potsdam] the President was informed that the first atomic bomb had been dropped in New Mexico—with complete success. But he did not stand up to Stalin.
2004 F. Lawrence Not on Label i. 5 They seem to be after a monopoly. But maybe that's not such a bad thing, if we're going to stand up to the power of the supermarkets.
(b) intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. Of a thing: to endure, withstand (hard use, criticism, etc.).With quot. 1907 cf. to stand to —— 5b at Phrasal verbs 2.
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1907 Washington Post 7 Apr. 18/1 (advt.) Roadability tests have shown it can stand up to its work on the worst roads in the world.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah p. lxxxv I had seen Bible fetichism, after standing up to all the rationalistic batteries of Hume, Voltaire, and the rest, collapse before the onslaught of much less gifted Evolutionists.
1940 Punch 11 Dec. p. xiii Nylon tufts will stand up to an incredible amount of hard use.
2006 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 23 June 7 The box and all the equipment is very robust and will stand up to any amount of ill treatment.
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