| 单词 | to stake a claim |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stake (out, †off) a claim c. to stake (out, †off) a claim, to make or register a claim (to land) by marking it with stakes; frequently figurative. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (intransitive)] > claim right to possession to stake (out, off) a claim1851 1851 State Jrnl. (San Jose, Calif.) 15 Mar. 2/1 It was estimated that ten thousand people were on the ground staking off ‘claims’. 1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love viii, in Poet. Wks. (1912) 191 And against her shames Imagination stakes out heavenly claims. 1904 J. London Daughter of Snows xiii. 140 You staked that claim before he was dry behind the ears. 1928 H. Crane Let. 17 Apr. (1965) 324 Skepticism may stop there.., but I am not exactly satisfied by that... I still stake some claims on the pertinence of the intuitions. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xiv. 199 Up till now, he had regarded Lord Emsworth as the most promising claim that any prospector for ore could hope to stake out. 1949 Nat. Hist. Apr. 189/3 Sometimes when the bee hunter finds a nest that has not yet reached its peak of honey production, he will ‘stake his claim’ by marking the tree so that other hunters will know of his prior discovery. < as lemmas |
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