1A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

1. 1.1 A long, thin piece of wood used for support in walking or as a weapon.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Although he had lately begun to use a stick on long walks he was clearly on fine form.
   • The two boys fought bravely with their sticks as weapons, and in the end, like always, the young knight won.
   • During the attack the pensioner, who suffers from heart disease and walks with a stick, was pushed to the ground injuring her knee and thumb.
   • And yes, they felt free to use weapons such as sticks and horsewhips.
   • And physical assaults against staff behind the counters ranged from them being pushed around to being hit with weapons, including sticks and crowbars.
   • Pam walked the course in about an hour using a stick for support because just a week ago she underwent an operation to remove her gall bladder.
   • She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
   • She kept up a remarkably active lifestyle despite a leg injury which meant she had to walk with a stick.
   • They also brought weapons such as sticks and knives and swords.
   • The father of four can only walk with a stick and uses a wheelchair when he leaves the house.
   • He was walking with a stick and I thought he looked awful and shouldn't have gone back so soon.
   • She is on morphine, walks with a stick and needs a gall bladder operation.
   • She took both hers and Gabriella's fighting sticks and stuck them up against a wall.
   • The sturdy fighters each wielded rattan sticks that resembled police batons.
   • Men armed with sharpened bamboo sticks led the charge.
   • Then, as the circle of guards got tighter, she realized there was a six-foot long, wood stick lying on the ground, halfway buried in the dirt.
   • A motorist walked with a stick as he took the stand at an inquest to describe a crash that left another driver dead.
   • He also walks with a stick and suffers from several health complaints.
   • The moment the men come close, they raise their sticks and attack them.
   • He had to be taught how to talk and walk all over again - and even now he has to walk with a stick.

   Synonyms

   walking stick, cane, staff

   malacca, alpenstock, blackthorn, ashplant, rattan, thumb stick

   crook

   crutch

   Australian/New Zealand waddy

   club, cudgel, bludgeon, shillelagh

   truncheon, baton

   cane, birch, switch, rod

   Indian lathi, danda

   South African kierie, knobkerrie

   British informal cosh
2. 1.2 (in hockey, polo, and other games) a long, thin implement, typically made of wood, with a curved head or angled blade that is used to hit or direct the ball or puck.
   （曲棍球、马球等比赛的）球棍
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The 10 outfield players can only hit the ball with the flat part of their sticks but the goalkeeper can use any part of his/her body to save.
   • The degree of bending will then influence the angle at which the puck leaves the stick.
   • Skates are often used to kick the ball/puck up to your stick, quite often in limited space between players and the boards, so you don't want the brake to catch when you turn the skate sideways.
   • Hockey pucks and sticks are put away in favor of basketballs and baseballs.
   • Though the majority of players use one-piece sticks, the curve of the blade still often requires work.
   • Purposely beating another player with your stick is essentially the same thing, using a potentially deadly tool of the sport to injure a competitor.
   • Once you establish position, you must keep your man's stick tied up to keep him from being able to get to the puck - to prevent him from shooting or tipping it.
   • All that is needed is a pair of inline skates: the club has a supply of full hockey equipment such as sticks, helmets, gloves and pads.
   • That could leave him open to being hit; it could also make him more likely to clip an opponent, or even a teammate, with his stick.
   • Max was a center who always seemed to have the puck attached to his stick.
   • Keenan glides along, occasionally flipping pucks with his right-handed stick.
   • He was in New York to welcome the new millennium, but he traveled without his skates and stick.
   • The man should not be playing a game that involves sticks and blades.
   • If he has to go side to side real quick, he doesn't stack the pads as much as he uses the glove hand or his blocker and stick.
   • The slap shot from the left circle appeared to be deflected by a defenceman's stick.
3. 1.3sticks (in field hockey) the foul play of raising the stick above the shoulder.
   （曲棍球犯规动作）举棍过肩
4. 1.4usually with modifier A short, thin piece of wood used to impale food.
   （串食物的）细短棍（或棒）
   lolly sticks

   冰棍棒。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If I were working on a larger scale I'd use a wooden lolly stick, sharpened appropriately, and dipped into Indian Ink.
   • Specialist kitchen shops sell proper wooden lolly sticks, but if you can't find them, simply use a plastic teaspoon as your stick.
   • A whole fresh apple, on a thin stick, is dipped in high-boiled sugar syrup which has been coloured red; and allowed to set before being wrapped in cellophane.
   • That wood goes to make flooring, paneling, furniture and kebab sticks.
   • She strikes me as a no-nonsense gal, the sort of English rose, raised on tea and hockey, who'd be calm in a crisis and know how to make splints out of ice lolly sticks.
   • And ah, those golden years in the mid 70s when the last bite of your lolly meant revealing the punchline to a particularly weak joke on the hidden half of the lolly stick.
   • Skewer the marshmallow on an extra-long cooking fork or a stick cut from a tree and whittled to a point.
   • I used to sneak outside with a lolly stick and help them climb back out.
5. 1.5the sticksinformal Goalposts or cricket stumps.
   〈非正式〉球门柱；（板球三柱门的）柱
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Goddard, the man with the magic touch, could do no wrong and sent the ball straight between the sticks from the touchline.
   • Two minutes later, Rhodes' perfectly-timed pass saw Callaghan on the burst and he put Simon Friend storming to the sticks.
   • Keeper Damian Ward played admirably between the sticks and was a model of coolness and composure throughout.
   • But when it really mattered, and with an air of anticipation filling the ground, Benn calmly slotted the ball straight between the sticks from the left touchline.
   • Reports suggest Carter hit the ball over the sticks from fully 70 metres.
   • Other clubs in the top division are not having the same crises of confidence between the sticks where there is an undisputed number one.
   • Keeper Kevin Crowley was a tower of strength between the sticks dealing admirably with everything that came his way.
   • But for a new wave of teenage Aberdeen supporters, the old fogey between the sticks must be just another member of a depressingly unsuccessful side.
   • Then the 70-minute frenzy began, effectively for the Scots with Norman Campbell of Newtonmore hitting straight over the sticks for an immediate two point lead.
   • Barry Marchena made an impressive debut between the sticks on Saturday, but couldn't stop Kingstonian from being bundled out of the FA Cup.
   • It now looks likely he will have to wait for another chance between the sticks.
6. 1.6Nautical archaic A mast or spar.
   〔航海〕〈古〉桅杆；圆材
7. 1.7 A piece of basic furniture.
   〈喻〉（家具的）件
   every stick of furniture just vanished

   家具全不见了，一件也不剩。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • There was ‘not a light fixture, not a stick of furniture, not a picture’ in the manor when he saw it for the first time in January 1988.
   • There was no television and barely a stick of furniture.
   • ‘Ceilings have collapsed, floors have been damaged and there is not a stick of furniture anywhere,’ Hine says.
   • We don't have a sofa, a coffee table, a mirror, a desk - not a stick of furniture to call our own.
   • It didn't go with a single dish or stick of furniture in the house but she had a purple kitchen.
   • His inability to lie means that he has trouble selling a stick of furniture in his position as a salesman with the Jack Jones Office Furniture Company.

2A long, thin piece of something.

一根炸药。

肉桂条。

1. 2.1 Used to refer to a very thin person or limb.
   （引申比喻用法）非常瘦的人（或四肢）
   the girl was a stick

   那个女孩子骨瘦如柴。

   her arms were like sticks

   她的胳膊瘦得像火柴棍。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • His legs are like sticks, and it's hard to imagine how they will ever function properly again.
   • They've got these big lollipop heads and tiny little bodies that look like sticks.
   • She wore long leggings that were very loose and made her legs look like sticks.
   • That girl has nothing on me, what with her wobbly sticks she calls limbs.
   • There are to many pressures on young girls what with adverts depicting women as thin size 8 waisted sticks as beautiful and glamorous.
   • Cherry lay folded into the corner, arms and legs like sticks.
   • She was a twenty-something stick of a girl, who kept staring over at the stage where Jackson was double checking all the instruments.
   • He had blonde hair, like the lady's, green eyes, like the girl's, and was skinny as a stick.
   • The thighs are like sticks, shiny and straight.
2. 2.2as modifier (of a figure) drawn with short, thin, straight lines.
   stick drawings of a man and girl

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Two stick figures were holding hands, the taller with a red jacket, the shorter with a triangle dress and pigtails, smiling under a happy-looking sun.
   • By two to three you'll find circles and lines appearing in the drawings, and by the time she gets to preschool you may see these shapes being put together to form stick figures.
   • He drew a funny picture of some random stick figure and taped it to the their chair.
   • He had drawn little stick figures of the class without knowing it.
   • I always drew a certain way, with patterns and stick figures, while in grade school.
   • I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.
   • He cannot draw, he can barely letter, and musters only stick figures.
   • He draws two intertwined stick figures with big dopey smiles.
   • They are depicted as stick figures with bows and arrows and accompanied by packs of hunting dogs.
   • All the others were drawing peace symbols and stick figures with clothes holding hands over the earth in the background.
   • It was holding hands with a much smaller stick figure with a little red backpack.
   • You may have recreated this illusion in school or on your own by drawing stick figures or other pictures on a stack of paper, then flipped through the paper quickly.
   • But with God as my witness, I found that I was incapable of drawing convincing stick figures.
   • Would you use stick figures when full figures would tell a more compelling story?
   • He recalls drawing a stick figure on his two-year-old daughter's easel just before the mother of one of her preschool classmates walked in.
   • Long brown hair fell over her paper but she ignored it while doodling stick figures.
   • I choose to utilize this time wisely by doodling stick figures engaged in various activities.
   • The drawing depicted two crude smiling crayon stick figures standing in front of a house holding hands.
   • Will spent the time talking and drew stick figures as he spoke.
   • When she was six years old, just like other children her age, Zoe used to draw stick figures of her family.
3. 2.3 A conductor's baton.
   指挥棒
4. 2.4 A gear or control lever.
   变速杆；操纵杆
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The left stick controls your movement forwards and backwards, as well as turns you left and right while R1 and L1 act as your strafe.
   • The pilot does so and lets go of the control sticks.
   • Crystal was in the middle of the machine holding two sticks that controlled the arms.
   • One stick controls Max's aim, while the other makes Max move.
   • It's manually controlled by the right stick and you'll be adjusting it - constantly.
   • Before the students take control of the stick, they must spend time getting familiar with situations they may encounter in the sky.
   • With that she pushed forward on her control stick and the fighter screamed out of the hangar into space.
   • You will need to steer the boat using the analog stick so keep trying to turn left.
   • It still had sticks, rather than control yokes, and got most of its performance out of its light weight.
   • The right stick wholly controls the camera, when it's not fixed to a specific point in some areas of the game.
   • The design is almost exactly as a million schoolboys imagine it - arms with control sticks come out from the pack and fit under my own.
   • I ram in the clutch, come to almost a dead stop, and slip the stick up to first gear.
   • We kept losing the gears - the stick would come off in your hand in 4th and you'd have to make it home like that.
   • When chaos was all around him he felt in control behind the stick of his fighter.
   • You can even move their heads in the window by pressing the analog stick in any direction.
   • This game looks slick and plays like a dream, especially with the use of both analogue sticks controlling speed and direction.
   • Coming up with a peppermint, she gathered the object between two fingers, and brought the stick back into first gear again.
   • Imagine being able to land a jumbo jet without ever taking control of the stick.
   • On its most basic level attacks are performed with either the A or B buttons in combination with a direction on the control stick.
   • The camera can be controlled with the right stick, but it feels limited in certain areas.
5. 2.5US A quarter-pound pack of butter or margarine.
   〈美〉四分之一磅装的黄油（或人造黄油）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • I used 1 1/4 sticks butter and that was enough to hold the bread crumbs and nuts together.
   • I pictured the insides of his refrigerator being nothing but an expired carton of orange juice and a stick of butter.
   • What we did is we used some fat-free milk instead of a stick or two of butter in the filling.
   • Without measuring, Madeline got out a bowl and added lots of yeast, plus flour, sugar, a stick or so of butter, and quite a few eggs.
   • Replace high-fat whole milk with 2 percent or skim milk and use soft, tub margarine instead of hard-margarine sticks.
   • She found the stick of butter and put it in the cart.
   • I took the opportunity though to shove the stick of margarine into his laughing mouth.
   • Finally you are putting into this mix a whole stick of reduction butter.
   • She squeezed the stick of butter into a fourth of a cup.
   • Melt the stick of margarine and add the first six ingredients.
   • When I made it, I found that one stick of butter wasn't enough.
   • I've seen legs of lamb rotiserried with an entire stick of butter.
   • Massive jaws sliced through his body like a knife through a stick of butter.
6. 2.6 A number of bombs or paratroopers dropped rapidly from an aircraft.
   一批迅速投下的炸弹（或伞兵）
   the sticks of bombs rained down

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Before she had a chance to sip away she was herself attacked by the supply ship's escorts and supporting aircraft, at least one of which dropped a stick of bombs.
   • But the art of this two-track war is more than offering a care-package carrot in lieu of a stick of iron bombs.
7. 2.7 A small group of soldiers assigned to a particular duty.
   一队特务兵
   a stick of heavily armed guards

   一队全副武装的警卫。

3A threat of punishment or unwelcome measures (often contrasted with the offer of reward as a means of persuasion)

更多靠诱导而不是惩罚的训练。

1. 3.1British informal mass noun Severe criticism or treatment.
   〈英，非正式〉严厉的批评；残酷对待
   I took a lot of stick from the press

   我受到报界的严厉批评。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We take a lot of stick working in the retail trade, a small amount of it justified, a large amount not.
   • I tell you what, I've been getting a lot of stick about these sandals.
   • Obviously the manager gets stick, rightly or wrongly, but that's just the way football is.
   • You must have got some stick from team-mates during your playing days?
   • They normally come in for a lot of stick and criticism from the public.
   • However, none of the younger lads have given us too much stick over our ages yet so I reckon we should keep it quiet.
   • They come in for a lot of stick, but we will rely heavily on their courage and independence in the coming weeks.
   • We'd lost the last match against Scotland the year before and were getting stick for our style.
   • ‘I was getting a bit of stick from the fans so you want to cap your performance off with a goal,’ he grinned.
   • And I got a bit of stick from their fans when I left the pitch, which was out of order.
   • The much-maligned right winger is used to getting stick.
   • Bus drivers take a lot of stick from children while doing school runs.
   • A few of the guys did give me some stick, teased me, but, really, I did not mind.
   • He's a good player who has come in for some unjustified stick but he keeps going and is doing well at Birmingham.
   • She was in a room of artists at the time, so got a lot of stick for it, but I felt she was right.
   • We do get a bit of stick from time to time but most of the English players have a lot of respect for Australians based in Europe.
   • I got some severe stick for that, mostly from people who don't take the trouble to read carefully and think about the words.
   • There's been a lot of stick handed out to individuals and some of it has been quite personal.
   • We got quite a lot of stick when we first moved there.
   • City councillors take a lot of stick over their transport policy.

   Synonyms

   criticism, flak, censure, reproach, reproof, condemnation, castigation, chastisement, blame, abuse

   punishment

   informal a bashing, a roasting, a caning, an earful, a bawling-out

   British informal verbal, a rollicking, a wigging, a rocket, a row

   British vulgar slang a bollocking

   rare animadversion

4the sticksderogatory, informal Rural areas far from cities or civilization.

生活在边远地区，他感觉受到了不公正的待遇。

5dated, informal with adjective A person of a specified kind.

有时珍妮特并不是一个那样坏的老家伙。

6Stock Market
A large quantity of unsold stock, especially the proportion of shares which must be taken up by underwriters after an unsuccessful issue.

1stick something in/into/throughwith object Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something)

他把叉子插进香肠里。

1. 1.1stick something on Fix something on (a point or pointed object)
   把…插在（尖或尖物上）
   stick the balls of wool on knitting needles

   把毛线团插在织针上。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • By the time they reach their teens, the kids will probably have exhumed my body and stuck my head on a pike.
   • The recruitment sergeant reputedly stuck a havercake on the top of his bayonet as an enticement for the tykes to enlist.
   • Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
   • His men decapitated an opposition fighter's corpse and stuck his head on a post as a warning.
2. 1.2stick in/into/throughno object (of a pointed object) be or remain fixed with its point embedded in (something)
   （尖物）被刺入，被插入；被钉住
   there was a slim rod sticking into the ground beside me

   在我旁边的地上插着一根细杆。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Another knife flew through the air, sticking into the ground at Veon's feet.
   • Without knowing it, I wrenched at a tube stuck into my wrist.
   • He rolled back just in time and icicles skimmed him and stuck into the ground.
   • They'd cleared everything out pretty well; the only things they'd missed were a feather duster in the utility cupboard and a trowel stuck through the rafters in the shed.
   • When they are extricated, one of them is unconscious and has a steel rod sticking into his temple.
   • He stood opposite me, my knife stuck into the ground in front of him.
   • Then to her surprise, Chris threw the sword and it landed in front of her, sticking in the ground.
   • Little flags on sticks, stuck into the ground around a tree where an informal memorial had been created by visitors.
   • What was also strange was that the arrows were fired on a shallow trajectory but they still stuck into the ground.
   • It came back down and stuck into the ground right between them.
   • Bastian lifted Andy up and brought him into the tent, quickly binding his arms with some rope, to a pole that was sticking in the ground.
3. 1.3 Stab or pierce with a sharp object.
   刺伤；刺死
   he screamed like a stuck pig

   他像一只被刺伤的猪一样尖叫。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If you stick a pig it squeals.
   • I was in the country and was entirely occupied with running down hares, and sticking salmon.

   Synonyms

   pierce, penetrate, puncture, prick, spike, stab

   stab, run through, transfix, impale, spit, spear

2with object and adverbial Insert, thrust, or push.

一个在耳后夹着一根香烟的年轻人。

她向他伸了伸舌头。

1. 2.1no object, with adverbial of direction Protrude or extend in a certain direction.
   伸出；突出
   his front teeth stick out

   他的门牙突出来。

   Sue's hair was sticking up at all angles

   苏的头发全都竖立起来。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • On the table is a bowl of fruit with two bananas sticking up, one either side.
   • He started across the highway and caught his toe on a piece of asphalt that was sticking up.
   • The ox's bones were sticking out of their backs.
   • Taps that had dried up long ago stuck out from the walls and the floor was strewn with garbage.
   • His jet black hair was sticking out all over the place in its usual fashion.
   • His short hair was now messy, sticking up in different directions.
   • Sean stepped on a shard of glass that was sticking up from the riverbed.
   • There were boards with nails sticking up everywhere.
   • I inherited my father's chin, which sticks out, but luckily I inherited his sense of humour as well so I can laugh at it.
   • On the way downhill, we pass a house with only the roof sticking up above the lava.
   • He looked down and saw a leg sticking up out of heavy briars.
   • Alison was covered with bandages and tubes sticking out of her nose.
   • Because the water in the lake was very low, a couple of huge stones stuck out.
   • Her blonde hair was messy, sticking up in all directions.
   • The naked eye saw only a wire sticking up out of the road.
   • In the meantime people and children walking in this area of the woods should be careful how they tread since there are many branches sticking up out of the ground.
   • The new mast stuck around nine metres out from the roof and was supported by surrounding cables, but it was closer to local houses than the old one.
   • He had his right hand in a clenched fist with his thumb sticking up.
   • They also had flat feet and teeth that stuck out.
   • All she could see was old Mary's boots sticking up in the air.

   Synonyms

   protrude, jut out, project, stand out, extend, poke out, obtrude

   bulge

   overhang, beetle

   informal be goofy

   rare protuberate, impend
2. 2.2with object and adverbial of place Put somewhere, typically in a quick or careless way.
   （随手）放置
   just stick that sandwich on my desk

   把三明治放在我的书桌上就行了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Pulling on her gloves Mercy stuck her wallet and house keys in her coat pockets.
   • Garrett was sitting down at his desk, rereading notes he had found stuck away in a drawer.
   • I grabbed the computer microphone, stuck it next to the phone and played the voicemail back into it.
   • He sticks the card back on the shelf, shoving it between the smiling clown figurine and the lighted seashell.
   • You've turned up the heating, you've stuck an extra sweatshirt on, and still you're shivering.
   • The waitress set down a small gas range on the table, stuck an oiled tray on top, and poured on a mixture of greens and spicy chicken.
   • In the end they just stuck me in a mental ward but none of them understood what was really happening inside my head.
   • Many old computers are stuck up in attics as people don't want to just throw them out.
   • We stuck our shoes on and went out the back to the car.
   • Apparently someone stuck the box up on that shelf without telling me and it's been there these five and a half years.

   Synonyms

   put, place, set, put down, set down, lay, lay down, deposit, situate, position

   leave, stow

   informal dump, bung, park, plonk, pop

   North American informal plunk
3. 2.3informal Used to express angry dismissal.
   〈非正式〉（生气地）放弃（和打发）
   he told them they could stick the job—he didn't want it anyway

   他告诉他们可以放弃这项工作——他无论如何也不会要它。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Then got angry and told him where he could stick his job, and put the phone down, vowing that I was never going to speak to him again.
   • I very nearly told her to stick her job, but remembered that I was going to need it to pay for the material for the costumes.
   • She replied that if he really thought that, he could stick his job.
   • I would have loved to tell Markie to stick his jobs.
   • The employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.
4. 2.4informal Cause to incur an expense or loss.
   〈非正式〉使支付；导致损失
   she stuck me for last month's rent

   她让我支付上个月的全部租金。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • They're sticking him for $2 grand, baselessly claiming it's his fault.
   • He stuck me for thousands of dollars.
   • The settlement sum was, according to reports, in the six figure bracket which means poor Conor was stuck for between €100,000 and €999,999.
   • They have stuck me for $50.

3no object Adhere or cling to something.

塑料座位粘住了我的皮肤。

1. 3.1with object and adverbial of place Fasten or cause to adhere to something.
   钉住；粘住，粘贴
   she stuck the stamp on the envelope

   他把邮票贴在信封上。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I even stuck some posters on the wall.
   • He stuck a big sticker on it saying ‘Do not use’.
   • Write your message on a post-it-note and stick it where it is sure to be found.
   • ‘There,’ he says softly, sticking the medical tape over the end of the bandage to keep it in place.
   • Alternatively, you could cover the outside of the vase in double-sided adhesive tape, then stick large leaves vertically around it.
   • The traffic police had checked the three-wheelers for essential documents and as a sign-off message stuck their stickers on the vehicles.
   • Get a glue gun and stick some sequins on a pair of flip flops.
   • He had left before Helen moved back, but stickers were stuck on to her windows and protesters with loud hailers shouted slogans outside her home.
   • I ran into Gill the other day sticking up posters.
   • He uses a laser printer to add specific information about the specific honey in question to his preprinted honey labels and then sticks the labels on the jars.
   • We've stuck little instruction labels to their computers.
   • He then asked if he could borrow some tape to stick some papers together.
   • A traffic warden is skulking around and has just stuck a ticket on the car next to me.
   • I am about to stick a 1st class stamp on the envelope when I have the nagging feeling that it might weigh more than the 60g maximum.
   • He stuck labels on jars to earn a living and slept in a rat-infested warehouse in the slums of London.
   • I stuck little notes on my bedroom mirror and my computer monitor.
   • On the inner side, after applying the glue, stick a layer of thin cardboard on the corner.
   • If you aren't keen on sewing a puppet's features in place, stick them on instead.
   • It's not a very glamorous job but at least it was better then my old job which was sticking price tags again and again on canned food.
   • In the past, builders usually stuck them on with a little patio cement and that was it.

   Synonyms

   affix, attach, fasten, fix

   paste, glue, gum, tape, sellotape, pin, tack

   weld, solder
2. 3.2informal Be or become convincing, established, or regarded as valid.
   〈非正式〉有说服力；已成事实；被认为有效
   the authorities couldn't make the charges stick

   当局无法合理地解释那些收费。

   the name stuck and Anastasia she remained

   那名字一直叫到现在，因而她仍然保留着阿纳斯塔西娅这个名字。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The very brightest stars in the sky were named many, many years ago and these names have stuck.
   • These judges and their interpretation of law and of the Constitution will stick, for decades.
   • That notion stuck, and public support for food programs waned.
   • The charges against him won't stick, but the chilling effect it will have on other researchers will.
   • At parliamentary party meetings, the charge has stuck - partially at least.
   • The captain named the house the Retreat, but the name never stuck and by 1853 it was known as St David's.
   • He renamed it the Fairfield yard - a name that was to stick until 1968.
   • In many cases, these first impressions stick and can be very hard to change.
   • The evidence against him is probably enough to make charges stick.
   • The new name didn't stick, and it's still referred to as Oxford Park.
   • But will the charges stick, and are America's boardrooms now squeaky clean?
   • Literary critics described these works as muscular Christianity, and the name stuck.
   • Of course the idea didn't stick and people quickly began to discern between real skill with a camera and the average - Joe photo.
   • The advert was soon forgotten, but the name stuck.
   • Despite lengthy investigations, neither charge was made to stick, although he was reproached by the chairmen of both inquiries.
   • The name stuck and was later officially recognized by the Air Force.
   • However, despite her best efforts, the name stuck and soon spread.
   • The name stuck; soon came a website, and 4000 members.
   • But at some point the dedication, discipline and thrill of competition stuck and he was hooked.
   • When they were little, I told them, ‘Only boring people can be bored,’ and the notion stuck.

   Synonyms

   be upheld, hold, be believed, gain credence, be regarded as valid

   informal hold water
3. 3.3 (in pontoon and similar card games) decline to add to one's hand.
   （21点和相似的牌戏中）不再摸牌
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In card games, the quandary is often whether to stick or twist.
   • When you have split your hand, you play the two hands one after the other - once you have stuck or gone bust on the first hand you play the second one.

4be/get stuckBe fixed in a particular position or unable to move or be moved.

萨拉想打开那扇窗户，但是窗户卡住了。

由于交通阻塞我们被困住了。

那只猫被卡在树上动弹不得。

1. 4.1no object Be or become fixed or jammed as a result of an obstruction.
   卡住；陷住
   he drove into a bog, where his wheels stuck fast

   他把车开进了沼泽，轮子牢牢地陷在了里面。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The ship struck the Tricolor at 7.30 yesterday evening and became stuck fast.
   • While she was there, aged 16, she watched whaling boats set out on the North Sea, and heard reports of one becoming stuck fast in the ice.
   • A large bag fell off the pallet and became stuck under one of the wheels of the fork lift truck.
   • Finally, on January the 19th, the ship became stuck fast.
   • After a nightmarish afternoon when I became stuck fast while walking through mud, and tumbled forward into the thick of it, I now discover that wellies are dangerous.
   • Right in front of me, just below the ledge, is a second chockstone the size of a large bus tire, stuck fast in the three-foot channel between the walls.
   • The 264 ft ship with her 42 ft beam just missed the lighthouse, but the wind and waves drove her high on the rocks, where she stuck fast.
   • The tow truck driver who eventually towed the truck out testified it had to be towed out of the ditch because the left front wheel was down in the mud and stuck.
   • His vehicle became stuck and after he exited he discovered his right front wheel was mired in a hole and the tire was flat.
   • Is that drawer in the bathroom vanity still sticking, despite trying to lubricate it with toothpaste?
   • The sword stuck fast in a crack in between two of the stone blocks.
   • Frustrated, she yanked on the last drawer, but it seemed stuck.
   • She stuck fast, despite running her engines full astern.
   • At about nine o'clock, the first vehicle topped a ridge, hit a patch of soft sand and stuck fast.
   • Three miles distant from the jetty the steamer stuck fast.
   • While practicing on one of them, he noticed that mechanics of one of the keys, a high C, had gotten stuck, emitting a fixed drone.
   • The dresser drawer stuck when I pulled it open, and the small thing seemed to infuriate me.

   Synonyms

   become trapped, become jammed, jam, catch, become wedged, become lodged, become fixed, become embedded, become immobilized, become unable to move, get bogged down
2. 4.2be/get stuck Be unable to progress with a task or find the answer or solution to something.
   被难住；把…困住
   I'm doing the crossword and I've got stuck

   我正在做填字游戏但是被难住了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was actually something I was stuck on for a while and I had to ask a bunch of people about it.
   • Should one get stuck on a puzzle, before looking at the solution there is the option of consulting the hints section.
   • If I get stuck on one project, I just move over to something else.
   • I stopped because it looked like Elijah was stuck on how to spell a word.
   • If you get stuck on one, move on to another and try to figure it out later.
   • I have completed thirty nine but I am stuck on the last one.
   • My brother in law, who fancies himself as a bit of a genius at crosswords had a go and got stuck.
   • On the train back, Steve and I raced each other to do the puzzles in consecutive issues of Metro, but I'm hopeless at crosswords and got stuck on mine after two clues.
3. 4.3no object Remain in a static condition; fail to progress.
   停顿下来；没有进展
   he lost a lot of weight but had stuck at 15 stone

   他体重减了很多，但到15英石再也减不下去了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • From levels of 45-50 percent, where it had been stuck for decades, the homeownership rate rose to 64 percent by 1965.
   • I had been stuck on 19 league goals for a number of weeks, so it was good to get that elusive 20th goal.
   • Firstly salaries often get stuck at certain levels, therefore forcing people to move South or in my case abroad to find work.
   • The fear expressed by the narrator that the story is stuck and will never be able to progress to a proper ending mirrors Ambrose's similar fear that he will be trapped in the funhouse forever.
   • He's been stuck on 14 Grammies now for a while; it's possible he's concerned that the famous singers who once lined up outside his studio door are now courting the new kid in town.
   • But the play ultimately fails, stuck somewhere between limp satire and B-grade existentialism.
   • He goes on to point out that from being stuck on 128 points for some years in the early 1990's, Borris climbed to a position of 203 points in 1999.
   • Competition is keen in this particular category as it is an industry stuck firmly in the 1950s.
   • A breakthrough or turnaround is possible in personal, family and professional situations that may have been stuck or blocked for some time.
   • They need to boost their vote from the 9% where it has been stuck for a while.
   • After giving birth to her second son, Connor, in 1997, Sharon found she was stuck on 13 stone until a neighbour suggested she join in a sponsored slim for charity.
   • Hospital consultants have been accused of deliberately failing to tell patients stuck on waiting lists that they are entitled to free treatment elsewhere.
   • Existing customers are likely to be stuck on 7% interest even after last week's 0.25% rate cut.
   • The party has not recovered from its disastrous general election performance and is stuck on about 22 per cent public support.
   • Since then, he's been stuck on 249 career goals during a barren spell comprising 13 games.
   • The soccer star is stuck on 99 goals for Liverpool.
   • Last week the bidding had stuck at €299,000.
   • When they get to a certain level, they get stuck because they need to be employed to progress further and no one wants to employ them.
   • No one gave any thought to Jon Sieben, a 5-9 Aussie with a best of 2: 01, a time at which he'd been stuck for three years.
4. 4.4be stuckinformal with adverbial of place Be or remain in a specified place or situation, typically one perceived as tedious or unpleasant.
   〈非正式〉滞留，停留（尤指不好的环境中）
   I don't want to be stuck in an office all my life

   我不想一辈子被困在办公室里。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Fortunately he fancied the river, as it had been blazing sunshine all day and I was sick of being stuck indoors.
   • The book is an easy-going page turner that will help you pass the time if you are stuck at an airport.
   • For better or for worse, the rains are making sure you're stuck at home.
   • When I'm stuck at home the days, pleasant as they may be, run in to one another and lose their distinction one from the other.
   • Instead, I was stuck in my little dorm room, answering the phone every time it rang in case it was Clay.
   • Of the total force of 12,000, how many are stuck behind desks?
   • I've been stuck indoors for almost a month now and good company or not, the cats can get a little monotonous in their demands.
   • So while I'm stuck at home, I thought I would finally read the manifestos of all the major parties ready for today's voting.
   • Mr Carr said: ‘If people have been stuck indoors for years and years it's going to have a very poor effect on their mental health.’
   • Of course, everyone knows that on the most crisp and beautiful of days, everyone must be stuck indoors.
   • They were stuck twiddling thumbs on a cold beach next to a military complex for two weeks.
   • During her childhood, she had been stuck indoors learning social etiquette, among other things, with her older sister Emma.
   • You call your wife to tell her you are stuck at a meeting; she bangs the phone down on you and you go red with rage.
   • I am so sick of being stuck indoors or running from heating building to car to next heated building.
   • Amazingly I found myself laughing along with the group, even if the only reason I remained was because I was stuck at the far end with no escape.
   • The Spanish fishing industry says its boats are all stuck at port unable to do their job.
   • It looked like he was going to be stuck at work again until late, so my plans with him were more than likely off.
   • I hate being stuck indoors, almost as much as I hate cleaning and cooking.
   • What she wanted to be was out in the field, but since organizing the special police unit nicknamed the Chasers, she had been firmly stuck behind a desk.
   • We're stuck at home on a beautiful day waiting for the gas man to show up so we can cook again.
5. 4.5be stuck for Be at a loss for or in need of.
   不知所措；需要
   I'm not usually stuck for words

   我并非经常词穷。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was perhaps the only time in his life that he was stuck for words.
   • The larger colleges were full up to capacity, while the smaller ones, which would have the capacity to take in more teaching students were stuck for additional resources.
   • During a session, while arranging a song, Stephin was stuck for a phrase.
   • I was stuck for a costume for Short Tony's Hallowe'en party.
   • Have you ever been stuck for something to wear to complete an outfit?
   • In the old days, if I was stuck for column ideas, I could simply reach into the Pile, pulling out movies at random.
   • I did well enough in science to get to university and finished the first part and then I was stuck for money.
   • As I was stuck for subjects, I decided to go off and seek out new ones.
   • If Cavan County Council gives Quinn the go-ahead to demolish his house, he won't be stuck for somewhere to stay.
   • So they were stuck for an actor to do two sketches: they were practically stopping cleaners to ask them to do them, but then some kind soul suggested me.
   • Because they were stuck for time, Mr Jeffers stopped only briefly before heading off north on the N78.
   • Basically I was stuck for what to call this.
   • Lea was stuck for what to do next - she could go home, stay at my place (I offered her my bed, I was going to sleep on the floor) or go to her parent's place.
   • The mother-of-two, from Driffield, finished writing the lyrics but was stuck for any music until she met musician Gary Luntley in August.
   • I was stuck for a theme, and there's no point forcing it.
   • I was stuck for something to drink, and bored with the usual beer or red wine, so Tracy suggested vodka and fresh orange.
   • So whenever I was stuck for reading material, I picked up The Murder at the Vicarage.
   • I think it was because the kids were on half-term and were stuck for things to do.
   • The old regulars had switched pubs when the bikers arrived, and the landlord was stuck for customers.
   • Mary was stuck for words (the first time in forty years).
6. 4.6be stuck withinformal Be unable to get rid of or escape from.
   〈非正式〉摆脱不了；无法逃脱
   like it or not, she and Grant were stuck with each other

   不管喜不喜欢，她和格兰特谁也离不开谁。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But if customers don't bite, he could be stuck with more than a few air purifiers after the holidays.
   • This could go some way to rid them of the ‘misery’ tag that they have been stuck with since the release of their debut album, The Optimist.
   • I smiled sympathetically, but was more worried about who I was going to be stuck with.
   • I hated the amount of work that I was always being stuck with.
   • Lots of the doubt and anxiety I've been stuck with over the last few months has disappeared completely.
   • They were stuck with around 1,000 dumped refrigerators they could not dispose of.
   • The town is stuck with the same old ramshackle building.
   • Unexpectedly, Tobi was stuck with two young boys to take care of.
   • He finds it a confounded nuisance, and this is a matter that, of course, he will be stuck with.
   • It was lucky, I thought, that Kathy and Ken were complete polar opposites, because if I had been stuck with two Ken's throughout this I would have gone mad.
   • I almost felt sorry for Kyleigh, having to be stuck with all those guys.
   • But whatever it is, it's something that I will be stuck with for the rest of my life, and something I will never be able to escape from.
   • This is the unfair impression Williams feels he has been stuck with, through no dealings of his own.
   • It will be stuck with below par growth for the foreseeable future as it is forced to come to terms with the slump in the high technology sector, he said.
   • We didn't know the place and we were stuck with this dog.
   • The farmers were stuck with over 7,000 of 50 kg bags of maize.
   • I was stuck with three total strangers.
   • He says a corporation gives up a degree of flexibility by going with one suite and runs the very real risk of being stuck with one or more pieces of second-tier software.
   • And if you have ever been stuck with more than a couple pre-schoolers with a full day to kill, you know that kids that age have another speed that humans of other ages do not.
   • This movie was her first effort to stretch beyond the sweet girl typecasting she had been stuck with.

   Synonyms

   lumbered with, left with, made responsible for, hampered by
7. 4.7be stuck oninformal Be infatuated with.
   〈非正式〉迷恋，爱上
   he's too good for Jenny, even though she's so stuck on him

   他太优秀了，詹尼配不上他，即便她非常迷恋他。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I am really stuck on him and my heart is entirely dedicated to him.
   • She's been very direct with him, tried everything she can think of, but he's completely stuck on her.
   • He never wants to lead me on, but because of that, I’m stuck on him.

   Synonyms

   infatuated with, besotted with, smitten with, in love with, head over heels in love with, hopelessly in love with, obsessed with, enamoured of, very attracted to, very taken with, devoted to, charmed by, captivated by, enchanted by, enthralled by, bewitched by, beguiled by, under someone's spell

   informal bowled over by, swept off one's feet by, struck on, crazy about, mad about, wild about, potty about, very keen on, gone on, sweet on, into, carrying a torch for

5British informal often with negative Accept or tolerate (an unpleasant or unwelcome person or situation)

我受不了杰弗里，他真是一个老吝啬鬼。

1. 5.1stick it out Put up with or persevere with something difficult or disagreeable.
   〈非正式〉经受；坚持
   I decided to stick it out for another couple of years

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Kathy says that despite the threats and intimidation, she and Dennis stuck it out on the farm for so long because it was their home, their livelihood and they had faith that things would turn out okay.
   • She got into show business when it was hard going to be an actress and she stuck it out.
   • But working in television can also be exciting, different and ultimately rewarding - if you stick it out and stay determined.
   • Defeat appeared to be looming 18 months ago, but he stuck it out and won.
   • Almost 1200 supporters had travelled to back them, but only a fraction stuck it out until full-time.
   • He told his wife he would stay and stick it out.
   • A lesser man might have buckled, but Buckley stuck it out.
   • For five years he stuck it out, attending flight school where he learned to pilot helicopters, and he completed a three-year tour of duty in West Germany.
   • Ten, even five years ago I would probably have stuck it out until the bitter end, just because I was afraid of missing out on something.
   • I would be very unhappy if I was to live my life being an engineer, but I stuck it out because I didn't want to let my parents down.
   • Love ends when one or both of you refuse to stick it out, especially when difficulties arise.
   • But they stuck it out, and come spring, the survivors marched out of Valley Forge eager to fight the British.
   • Nonetheless, he understood the importance of the day, and stuck it out even though it was stifling hot in the un-air-conditioned auditorium.
   • We were in for the long haul - if it had taken ten years we would have stuck it out.
   • I stuck it out until Sunday, when breathing became difficult.
   • Six of us stuck it out for the whole four hours, including Alison and myself.
   • He often wondered at the wisdom of his decision, but nevertheless stuck it out, convinced that one day things would change.
   • Despite atrocious weather, they stuck it out through the night for their shot at fame.
   • He is going to be national champion if he sticks it out.
   • They didn't always see eye to eye for much of the going and they sure had their ups and downs - god knows - but, nevertheless, they stuck it out together.

   Synonyms

   put up with it, grin and bear it, keep at it, keep going, stay with it, see it through, see it through to the end

   persevere, persist, carry on, struggle on

   informal hang in there, soldier on, tough it out, peg away, plug away, bash on