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hoard

/hawrd, hohrd/US // hɔrd, hoʊrd //UK // (hɔːd) //

囤积,贮藏,囤积物,囤积居奇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.

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Examples

  • In most years, Scottish museums have intervened in around 150 cases this way, with each case representing anything from a single coin to a hoard of hundreds of artifacts.

  • Slowly, they removed soil, pebbles, and fist-sized stones a fraction of an inch at a time, revealing the outline of the hoard.

  • Worried that the tents and daily work would attract the wrong kind of attention from locals, he bought a tent and sleeping bag and slept next to the hoard every night.

  • First of all, is to have some kind of legal mechanism of getting that private data hoards into a data common.

  • That I hoard medication and go to sleep each night on a big pile of Zithromax?

  • JML: Attractive celebrities are usually followed by a hoard of women.

  • And by the end of the war he had managed to hoard at least 1,400 hugely valuable works for himself.

  • Apple, “a pioneer in tactics to avoid taxes,” has kept much of its cash hoard abroad, out of reach of Uncle Sam.

  • When would you rather hoard money instead of lending it out?

  • That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting?

  • If I take no money for the money that I lend, how shall I then increase my hoard?

  • They are no wiser than the savages, who hide and hoard their little heaps of cowrie-shells.

  • What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs / 45 You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs.

  • Gunnar refuses Atli's command to reveal the hiding-place of the hoard, bidding them bring to him the heart of Hogni.