stakes 的 3 个定义
- a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning.
- the stake, the punishment of death by burning: Joan of Arc was sentenced to the stake.
- (6)
staked, stak·ing.
- to mark with or as if with stakes: We staked out the boundaries of the garden.
- to possess, claim, or reserve a share of as if by marking or bounding with stakes: I'm staking out ten percent of the profit for myself.
- to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes.
- (6)
- stake out, to keep under police surveillance.to appoint to maintain constant watch over a suspect or place.
stakes 近义词
pole
bet, wager
share, investment
bet, wager
由stakes构成的短语
- stake a claim
- stake out
- at stake
- burn at the stake
- have a stake in
- pull up stakes
更多stakes例句
- Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.
- Indeed, it may never unless Western powers start raising the political stakes.
- But the stakes are too high this Tuesday for any woman to stay home.
- These stakes have created a financial arms race that almost certainly will make this election historically expensive.
- It will go to the Shia majority and is the subject of an ongoing struggle with very high stakes indeed.
- These stakes are gold only as yet, and no man's venture seems over five pounds.
- Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.
- It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
- The body was resting upon a plank supported by four stakes and covered with skins.
- The stakes were too rough to admit the possibility of any finger-prints that might be microscopically detected.