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stakes

/steyk/US // steɪk //UK // (steɪk) //

赌注,桩子,摊位,利害关系

Related Words

chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会risk风险,危险,危险性,风险提示venture创业,冒险,风险,风险投资involvement参与,参与度,参与性,牵扯award奖励,奖,奖赏,授予purse钱包,钱袋,钱夹,囊括了prize奖品,奖,奖金,奖项interest利益,利益关系,利益驱动,利益相关者picket纠察队,纠察,纠察官,纠察员stave谱系,五线谱,谱曲,谱系化rod杆件,拉杆,杆状物,杆子stick棍子,棒子,棍棒,杆子spike尖顶,尖峰,尖峰时刻,尖锐湿疣post职位,岗位,职务,岗位职责pale苍白,苍白的,浅色,淡淡的ante前面,前端,前,前述pot锅,罐子,壶,盆子peril险情,险境,危险,危难pledge认捐,承诺,誓约,誓言hazard危害,危害性,风险,危险

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load.
    • : Mormon Church. a division of ecclesiastical territory, consisting of a number of wards presided over by a president and two counselors.
    • : sett.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.
    • : to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant: to stake tomato vines.
    • : to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal: They staked the goat in the back yard.
    • : to fasten with a stake or stakes.
  1. 1
    • : stake out, to keep under police surveillance.to appoint to maintain constant watch over a suspect or place.

Phrases

  • stake a claim
  • stake out
  • at stake
  • burn at the stake
  • have a stake in
  • pull up stakes

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpole
Synonyms
pale苍白,苍白的,浅色,淡淡的paling围棋,缩放,围棋比赛,围棋棋盘picket纠察队,纠察,纠察官,纠察员post职位,岗位,职务,岗位职责rod杆件,拉杆,杆状物,杆子spike尖顶,尖峰,尖峰时刻,尖锐湿疣stave谱系,五线谱,谱曲,谱系化stick棍子,棒子,棍棒,杆子
nounbet, wager
Synonyms
chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会risk风险,危险,危险性,风险提示venture创业,冒险,风险,风险投资ante前面,前端,前,前述hazard危害,危害性,风险,危险peril险情,险境,危险,危难pledge认捐,承诺,誓约,誓言pot锅,罐子,壶,盆子
nounshare, investment
Synonyms
award奖励,奖,奖赏,授予interest利益,利益关系,利益驱动,利益相关者involvement参与,参与度,参与性,牵扯prize奖品,奖,奖金,奖项purse钱包,钱袋,钱夹,囊括了claim声称,宣称,主张,要求concern关注,关切,关注的问题,关注问题
verbbet, wager
Synonyms
award奖励,奖,奖赏,授予interest利益,利益关系,利益驱动,利益相关者involvement参与,参与度,参与性,牵扯prize奖品,奖,奖金,奖项purse钱包,钱袋,钱夹,囊括了claim声称,宣称,主张,要求concern关注,关切,关注的问题,关注问题

Examples

  • 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.

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