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stock SUPPLYHstBk, $stB:kna supply of something for use or sale存货，储存物It is now halfway through winter and food stocks are already low. [C]现在冬天刚过了一半，但食物的储存早就不足了。The local shop has a stock of postcards and guidebooks. [C]本地商店备有明信片和旅游指南。Much of the city's housing stock (= the number of houses in the city) is over 100 years old. [U]这城市中的许多房屋都有100多年历史了。Stock is also the total amount of goods or the amount of a particular type of goods available in a shop.库存The jeans shop is selling off old stock. [U]这牛仔服店正在减价出售老的库存。We don't have any green jackets in stock at present. [U]我们现在没有绿茄克的存货。The new edition is in/out of stock (= available/not available) in major bookshops. [U]这新的版本在各大书店中都有售/脱销了。If you put stock in something that someone says or does, you have a high opinion of it.相信，看重He's been wrong several times before, so I don't put much stock in what he says anymore.他以前错过好几次，因此我对他所说的不再十分看重。To take stock (of something) is to think carefully about a situation or event and form an opinion about it, so that you can decide what to do.评估，鉴定After two years spent teaching abroad, she returned home for a month to take stock of her life.在国外教了两年书后，她回家待了一个月来总结一下自己的生活。In a company or shop, stock control is the system of making certain that new supplies are ordered and that goods have not been stolen.库存管理Many supermarkets have computer systems to improve stock control and give quick and accurate information on sales.许多超市都用电脑系统来改进库存管理并就销售情况给出快速而准确的信息。
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