- N-COUNT 一堆;一叠
A stack of things is a pile of them.
- There were stacks of books on the bedside table and floor.
床头桌和地板上有几摞书。
- VERB 将…码放整齐
If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles.
- Mme Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates...
凯西亚德夫人正在将干净的瓶子整齐地码放在板条箱里。 - They are stacked neatly in piles of three.
它们每 3 个一组被整齐地码放在一起。 - Stack up means the same as stack .
stack up 同 stack - He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back.
他命令他们把几个枕头叠放在自己的背后。 - ...plates of delicious food stacked up on the counters.
整齐地堆放在柜台上的一盘盘美味佳肴
- N-PLURAL 一大堆;许多
If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it.
- If the job's that good, you'll have stacks of money.
如果这个工作真有那么好,你将会赚很多钱。
- VERB 在(某组织机构中)安插(对自己有利的人员)
If someone in authority stacks an organization or body, they fill it with their own supporters so that the decisions it makes will be the ones they want it to make.
- They said they were going to stack the court with anti-abortion judges...
他们说将会往法院中安排一些反对堕胎的法官。 - The committee is stacked with members from energy-producing states.
该委员会中安插进了几位来自能源生产州的成员。
- See also: stacked chimney stack
A stack of things is usually tidy, and often consists of flat objects placed directly on top of each other. ...a neat stack of dishes. A heap of things is usually untidy, and often has the shape of a hill or mound. Now, the house is a heap of rubble. A pile can be tidy or untidy. ...a neat pile of clothes.
stack 通常表示由扁平物体直接叠放而成的整齐的一叠,如:a neat stack of dishes (整齐的一叠盘子)。heap 通常表示杂乱地堆放成小山或土丘状的一堆物品,如:Now, the house is a heap of rubble (现在,这座房子成了一堆瓦砾)。而 pile 则既可以表示整齐的一堆,也可以表示杂乱的一堆,如:a neat pile of clothes (整齐的一叠衣物)。
- PHRASE 情况对…不利
If you say that the odds are stacked against someone, or that particular factors are stacked against them, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed in what they want to do because the conditions are not favourable.
- The odds are stacked against civilians getting a fair trial...
平民难以得到公正的审判。 - Everything seems to be stacked against us.
一切好像都对我们不利。