| 单词 | stay |
| 释义 | stay I. 1. 2. a. b. • - at a long stay - at a short stay - in stays II. transitive verb 1. 2. a. b. intransitive verb III. intransitive verb 1. < if he paused here at all, he didn't stay to found a city — Green Peyton > 2. 3. 4. a. < stay with us until the bridge is repaired — Victor Canning > — often used with on < proposed a brief visit but stayed on for months > b. < the instrument staid in tune for a greater period of time — A.E.Wier > c. (1) < couldn't make spicy foods stay down > (2) 5. 6. < stayed overnight at a waterfront hotel > < stayed with friends all along his route > 7. obsolete 8. obsolete 9. obsolete 10. < was supremely confident that no rival could stay with him — Allison Danzig & Joe King > 11. 12. obsolete 13. a. < stayed neither for time nor tide > < stayed for me after the dinner > b. < urged them to stay for tea > transitive verb 1. < I will not stay thy questions — Shakespeare > 2. < should not be troubled to stay the mile and a half — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < we may not be able to stay the course against moderately efficient tyranny — Times Literary Supplement > 3. < she stayed the sacrament — Jane Austen > 4. < the huge man in the red shirt stayed his cudgel — Michael Arlen > < do something to stay bloodshed — Charles Dickens > < might have stayed the ruinous rise in prices — E.H.Youngman > 5. archaic 6. 7. a. < there is nothing here … to stay us in our flight — Virginia Woolf > b. < the court of appeals stayed the order > < denied a motion by counsel to stay the annual meeting > c. archaic 8. < that the plague may be stayed from the people — 1 Chron 21:22 (Authorized Version) > 9. < stayed the civil war > 10. < a glass of milk stayed me until meal time > < offered him a snack to stay his stomach > Synonyms: < stay at a hotel for a week > < stayed for the evening meal — Sherwood Anderson > < the itinerant weaver and the household loom stayed on in the smaller communities until late in the nineteenth century — American Guide Series: Michigan > remain can add the idea of staying after the time of expected departure or a reasonable occasion for departure < the others left but the officer remained for an hour more > < went to Europe in the spring of 1806, remaining over a year — M.H.Thomas > < no permanent ice remains, but snowbanks persist in places — Gladys Wrigley > < in earlier geological periods these were gigantic ranges; today only a few precipitous slopes remain — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < piles of stones remain to indicate the site of the mission's gristmill — American Guide Series: Tennessee > wait implies an event in the future, immediate or distant, for which one stays in anticipation < wait for the guests to depart > < if we were to wait for the scientists to reach conclusions conducive to certitude, we would have a long wait — L.A.Foley > < when a man disregards current conventions he must wait for the future — O.W.Holmes †1935 > abide signifies to stay for considerable time, suggesting long residence or a patient waiting or sometimes the staying of one who has found a place of respite or repose and has no immediate intention of leaving < he must get out alone … into the wilderness and abide there hunting till he had built up his strength and regained his pride — Stuart Cloete > < here she was forced to abide — Thomas Hardy > < the foundation of a culture whose influence will abide while the world stands — Edward Clodd > linger and tarry both suggest a remaining or staying on in one place by a delaying of departure or of expected procedure in a given direction as from fondness for the place or situation or its concomitants or from uncertainty or recalcitrance < the less casual visitor, with time to linger, senses the charm of the old church — American Guide Series: Texas > < a young American who is lingering in Europe after the First World War — B.R.Redman > < she lingered for a few moments to talk with him — Sherwood Anderson > < numerous legends linger around this old dwelling — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < they did not tarry in the little settlement but sailed up the Ashley river, and chose a site 18 miles above the town — L.H.Beck > < that night after the guests had tarried long over their tea … the woman still lingered behind the stove — Pearl Buck > Synonym: see in addition defer, reside. • - stay put IV. 1. a. b. < was asked to grant a stay of execution — New York Times > c. < pressed forward without stop or stay > d. obsolete 2. obsolete 3. obsolete 4. < an extended holiday lengthened itself into a stay of 16 years — J.T.Ellis > 5. 6. V. 1. a. < special lid stays and pneumatic dampers hold the lid open — National Stamp News > b. < in this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations — R.W.Emerson > < this great valiant class, the stay of domestic England — Bernardine Kielty > 2. a. b. 3. 4. VI. transitive verb 1. a. < a hand on her uncle's chair to stay herself from falling — George Meredith > b. < turned from the man whose friendship had stayed him — Winston Churchill > 2. < all my trust on thee is stayed — Charles Wesley > 3. a. b. intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. obsolete Synonyms: see base |
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