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单词 stick out
释义 stick out
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to jut out : project, protrude
 b. : to be prominent or conspicuous
  < their writers' prejudices would often stick out — Curtis Brown >
  < antibourgeois notions of the analysts stick out all over — C.J.Friedrich >
2.
 a. : to hold out : be persistent (as in a demand or an opinion) : refuse to come to agreement or make a settlement
  < were sticking out for a higher price >
  < stuck out for absolute domination — V.S.Pritchett >
  < a last ditcher, sticking out for the rigor of the law — D.B.W.Lewis >
 b. of workmen : strike
transitive verb
1. : to endure (as something specified or conditions in general) or see through to the end
 < stuck the first term out and then left >
 < stuck out the icy currents — Newsweek >
 < determined to stick out a California sojourn — R.G.Hubler >
— often used with it
 < stuck it out, living on lemonade, glucose tablets and nerves — Holiday >
 < the people sticking it out where the dust is thickest and the gulches driest — Russell Lord >
 < too late now to do anything but stick it out >
2. : to maintain against a person
 < stuck me out that … it was one of the six best comedies in English — Arnold Bennett >
Synonyms: see bulge
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