| 单词 | stake something ↔ out |
| 释义 | stake something ↔ outstake something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v informal a) WATCHto watch a place secretly and continuously 持续监视〔某处〕 → stakeout Police officers have been staking out the warehouse for weeks. 警察对这座仓库已经监视好了几个星期。 b) to mark or control a particular area so that you can have it or use it 保留，留出 We went to the show early to stake out a good spot. 我们早早地去了表演地点，抢占一个好位置。 c) to state your opinions about something in a way that shows how your ideas are clearly separate from other people’s ideas 明确表明〔自己的观点〕，毫不含糊地说明〔自己的立场〕 Johnson staked out the differences between himself and the other candidates. 约翰逊明确表明了自己与其他候选人之间的不同之处。 Examples from the Corpus stake out• Presumably the house was still empty, and they were staking it out.• It was later spotted in Cambridge, where police staked it out and arrested Kenney when he returned to it.• He'd have Jamieson stake it out for one more night, then he'd have to abandon the issue. → stake something ↔ out at stake2(3) |
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