| 单词 | stable |
| 释义 | sta·ble I. 1. < the horse stable is in the main barn, the cow stable is separate > 2. a. b. (1) (2) c. < a stable of publications > < a stable of racing cars > < a stable of five suits — Mel Watkins > 3. stables plural a. b. II. transitive verb < horses and cows were stabled on the lower floor — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < garage … redesigned to stable neighborhood Cadillacs — Newsweek > intransitive verb III. 1. a. < so long upon the moving, rocking sea that the stable land was a shock to us — Jack London > < the sawmill village with sawdust streets became a stable community and was incorporated as a city — American Guide Series: Michigan > < dictatorship always appears stable — Christian Science Monitor > < stable habits > < a stable theory > b. < stable currency > < a stable economy > < a general trend toward a stable population, rather than one that will continue to increase — K.F.Mather > < some industries are quite stable inasmuch as no basic changes in technique occur for a long period of time — E.B.Alderfer & H.E.Michl > < a relatively stable society, where class mobility is reasonably low, where the individual remains, both physically and socially, in the place in which he was born — Leslie Cheek > < the personnel of the Supreme Court remained relatively stable — R.K.Carr > c. < a stable peace > < your name will travel widely over the world, but will have no stable habitation — J.A.Froude > 2. a. b. < a stable personality > < many boys are not emotionally stable and, as a result, behave in a way that makes some adults believe them to be retarded — H.A.Delp > 3. a. < an airplane is stable if, when it is disturbed from a balanced condition of flight (whether level, climbing or gliding), its tendency is to return to that condition — Skyways > b. c. (1) < penicillin … is stable at a point about neutrality — American Scholar > (2) < a stable emulsion > < a stable substance never changes spontaneously into a metastable one — Samuel Glasstone > (3) < a stable isotope > < a stable nucleus > |
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