stead
stead 英 [sted] 美 [stɛd]
n. 代替；用处 vt. 对…有利
名词复数:steads
- Someone's stead is their position, or occupation. The eager understudy to starring role leapt at the chance to serve in the lead actor's stead when he mysteriously got food poisoning.
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- n. 代替；用处
- vt. 对…有利
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1. I trusted one thing:All I want to do is writing. But my parents came from poor families, they want me to learn some practical skills in stead of British literature.
我曾确信自己唯一想做的事情是写小说，但我的父母都来自贫穷的家庭，他们希望我去读一个能学到专业技能的学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。
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2. Political analysts say his position will serve him in good stead with Hindus, who make up a little more than half of Kerala’s population.
政治分析家说，他的立场将使他在印度教徒中保持稳定的支持率，印度教徒占了喀拉拉邦一半多一点儿的人口。
- stead (n.) Old English stede "place, position; standing, firmness, stability, fixity," from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (source also of Old Saxon stedi, Old Norse staðr "place, spot; stop, pause; town," Swedish stad, Dutch stede "place," Old High German stat, German Stadt "town," Gothic staþs "place"), from PIE *steti-, suffixed form of root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm." Related to stand.
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