stead
/sted/noun
- the place or role that someone or something should have or fill (used in referring to a substitute)替代; 接替：
you wish to have him superseded and to be appointed in his stead.
你想有人取代他, 而且想被任命接替他。
短语
stand someone in good stead
- be advantageous or useful to someone over time or in the future（将来）对某人有好处, 对某人有用处：
his early training stood him in good stead.
他早期受的训练对他的将来有好处。
词源
Old English stede 'place', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stad 'town', German Statt 'place', Stadt 'town', from an Indo-European root shared by the verb STAND.