1mass noun The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a shop or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.

那家商店的库存周转量非常小。

趁现在还有货，快买！

1. 1.1 A supply or quantity of something accumulated or available for future use.
   储备物，备用物
   I need to replenish my stock of wine

   我需要补充我储存的酒。

   count noun fish stocks are being dangerously depleted

   鱼类资源正日益严重地枯竭。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • So much so that hospitals would probably be better off enlisting those volunteers to provide blood to needy civilians because the army generally has a fairly good stock of blood.
   • She revealed that the country's total imports had begun to drop since the third quarter, thanks to a high-level of accumulated stock of oil, steel and other raw materials.
   • For many years he supported all moves to conserve salmon stocks, but the numbers continued to fall.
   • The mature lake has a good head of fish with the original stock of perch, eels and pike attaining specimen proportions.
   • The fish killed were salmon parr (one year old) and trout which would have been the future stock of the river.
   • Rather than dumping its stock of surplus Jeeps into Manila Bay, the American authorities released them to civilians.
   • Now Linda has the perfect setting for making her baskets and storing her tools and growing her stock of willow.
   • It is also putting greater pressure on the State to increase its stock of housing.
   • A few residents who attended the meet complained that the BMP's health centres did not have adequate stock of anti-rabies vaccine.
   • Moher is open into October, later than most other lakes, and with a very good stock of trout in the lake it should fish well over the next couple of weeks given any kind of good weather for angling.
   • The province, through the various health authorities, is trying to expand its stock of seniors' housing though an Independent Living B.C. program.
   • Proponents argue that a reef would not only help replenish fish stocks but also boost the local economy.
   • The club is also keen to protect its stock of fish.
   • With a central buffer food stock of over 40 million tonnes, Mr Prime Minister, could you ask for a better start to your tenure?
   • However, when the Endurance was crushed the event was so unexpected and sudden that his entire stock of negatives was in immediate danger of sinking to the bottom of the Weddell Sea, to be lost forever.
   • One can only imagine the devastation to fish stock of such a method.
   • Leah has spent 50 years amassing her stock of electric, oil and paraffin-fuelled lights and stored most of them in a spare room at her home in Altrincham.
   • Back at the hospital the emergency wards were soon back in action, and the hospital's stock of basic supplies and drugs were replenished from the ships.
   • Instead of engaging in small talk with editors, he sells via specialized agencies from his stock of 80,000 slides, all stored in iron cabinets in his house.
   • I was interested to read in your supplement on the Countryside about the low stock of fish in The River Aire.

   Synonyms

   store, supply, stockpile, reserve, hoard, cache, reservoir, accumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load

   fund, bank, pool, mine, repertoire, repertory, inventory

   collection, selection, assortment, variety, range

   rare amassment
2. 1.2 Farm animals such as cattle, pigs, and sheep, bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock.
   家畜，牲畜
   all the stock were housed and fed in sheds

   the sale of dairy stock

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Other potential agricultural applications of Fantesk include sprays, coatings for nursery stock, and livestock feed additives.
   • Do not purchase stock from other farms or dealers while the ban on livestock mart sales remains in force.
   • Some good stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were on exhibition.
   • The farm's land and stock will be handed out to four neighbouring farmers and the buildings rented out either as homes or for commercial use.
   • DEFRA has decreed that a farmer bringing cattle, sheep or pigs onto his holding cannot move any stock off the farm for 20 days except direct to slaughter.
   • Almost a quarter of the 2,300 head on offer were fitted with the devices, to be used to track stock under the National Livestock Identification Scheme.
   • Under the Autumn Licence Movement Scheme farmers can apply for permits to allow the movement of stock from farm to farm for welfare, breeding and commercial purposes.
   • We farmed there in a pioneer way and increased the stock to a thousand sheep and a hundred cattle.
   • For the last 16 months the 20-day standstill has prevented farmers from moving stock off their farms within 20 days of taking in new arrivals.
   • His neighbours work in partnership selling meat from their own stock through Bethesda Fresh Farm Meats.
   • In his younger years, he was principally involved in livestock haulage, leading stock into and out of the local markets.
   • There are three general options for farmers to consider to productively manage their sheep flock: selling stock, agistment and supplementary feeding.
   • Perhaps he would enthusiastically support moves for greater commercial use of kangaroos, rather than the hoofed stock, sheep and cattle, that break the crust.
   • The NFU was also concerned that meat and milk from vaccinated stock would be unsaleable.
   • To the lay reader, may I repeat the Government's basic proposal, which is to stop any stock moving off a farm for a 20-day period following an inward movement onto the farm.
   • It could also mean that only the person registered as the keeper will be legally entitled to buy in or sell off farm stock.
   • But it had appealed for a reprieve for its cattle, virtually irreplaceable Red Galloway beef and Ayrshire dairy stock.
   • Livestock ownership stratified their communities with ‘chiefs’ controlling the most cattle and small stock.
   • Women could also cross the gender barrier regarding female association with animals by raising stock for market or dairy purposes.
   • The club also organizes visits to leading dairy farms and research institutes, holds dairy stock judging events and herds competitions.

   Synonyms

   livestock, farm animals, cattle, beasts

   cows, sheep, pigs, horses, oxen, goats

   flocks, herds
3. 1.3
   short for rolling stock

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Forty per cent more seats will be provided during the morning peak for commuters into London by making all trains eight-car and transferring extra stock to the line.
   • Eventually, Central are planning to have televisions on most of their stock but, for the time being, they're few and far between.
   • Rail passengers are to benefit from a £2.5m handout to provide new stock on Metro services in South and West Yorkshire.
   • The first challenge is to get rid of the Mark I slam-door stock.
   • Having the most stations on a line and the most stock in a railroad pays off during the game, as well as at its end, and the player with the most money wins.
   • But all those potential bonanzas could be derailed if Mass Transit Railway stock goes off track.
   • At first locomotives and stock were bought from outside contractors and simply repaired at Ashford.
   • The railways are a shambles - Railtrack's stock was declared near worthless in the City this week.
   • However in the meantime an immediate 20 mph ESR was only required if the defect either could not be clamped or was in any part of switch, stock or crossing rail.

   Synonyms

   rolling stock, trains, locomotives, carriages, wagons

   machinery, equipment, apparatus, appliances, implements
4. 1.4 Photographic film that has not been exposed or processed.
   （胶卷）原片
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Black and white do not exist, they creep into the story due to the unpredictable magic of film processing or defective film stock.
   • But even in this limited timeframe, the short manages to make bold and vivid statements about filmmaking, digital film vs. traditional film stock, and growing old.
   • It is the technological body - the film camera, film stock, photographic camera and computer - that make possible this frenzy of the visible.
   • The film was originally shot on 16 mm film stock and retains a very worn, rustic look that actually helps the film achieve a quasi-documentary feel.
   • All of this seems to be told from Mike's narcoleptic viewpoint, with strange edits, blackouts, and powerful montages of varying film stock.
   • He has always had a good eye for composition and this film is one of the rare early films which he was able to shoot on proper film stock rather than on video.
   • The priest's demands that scenes be cut from films not only raise the issue of censorship but also draw attention to the material quality of the film stock and the editing process, as frames are removed and spliced together again.
   • Since Gallo, in true art auteur fashion, decides to use reversal film stock to shoot the film, there is only so much they can do.
   • The film was shot on 16 mm film stock, and for once the small amount of grain present seems to add to the realistic horror taking place on screen.
   • Production was a meticulous, time-consuming process, comprising painting directly onto clear 35 mm film stock, frame by frame.
   • Cumbersome lighting kits, dolly tracks, and the sundry other requirements of expensive film stock were avoided.
   • The camera work echoes a spent, pared down existence in its washed out, Russian-made and processed film stock.
   • The constant music and the grainy film stock do little but make Summer of Sam a noisy and grainy film that blew its chance to be even mildly interesting.
   • By dispensing with film stock, 24p is more efficient, and its defenders believe its quality to be at least superior to 16 mm.
   • I also appreciated the frequent use of ambient lighting and a high-speed Kodak film stock, creating a very natural and pleasing look for those scenes.
   • That is the kind of damage one would expect from an old kinescope, not a show filmed in 35 mm and on top-notch film stock.
   • It tries to be a fiercely independent work of a struggling urban voice pulling itself up by its film stock and sticking it to the standard Hollywood man who insists upon demonizing minorities.
   • The film was shot in Super 16, which is a lower-resolution film format than the 35 mm film stock that is used for most Hollywood productions.
   • The style of the film is quite striking, full of excessive grain, rough film stock, and stylized editing techniques.
   • The anamorphic transfers both pick up the various flaws in the aging film stock, something that is not preventable, but MGM has gotten the colors at proper levels.
5. 1.5 (in some card games) the cards that have not yet been dealt, left on the table to be drawn.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The player who takes the discard in this way must take in addition the top card from the stock as a penalty card.
   • The remaining stacks stay face down in the centre of the table as a drawing stock.
   • In any turn, a player who does not steal any cards from any other player has to draw one card from the stock.
   • The top card of the stock is turned face-up and placed next to it to start a discard pile.
   • Some people play that if you touch the stock when it is your turn, you must draw the top card from the stock.
   • If you cannot or do not wish to play, you draw a card from the undealt stock and add it to your hand.
   • A player who cannot play may be penalised by having to draw one or more cards from an undealt stock.
   • If the stock runs out of cards, the game is a draw between all players.
   • Put the rest of the cards face down in the centre of table to form the stock.
   • The remainder of the cards are placed in the center of the table, forming a stock.
   • Anyone who passes must draw a card from the undealt stock and add it to their hand.
   • As usual, each turn is begun by either drawing the top card from the face-down stock or taking the whole of the discard pile.
   • You may go through the stock as many times as you want to, and you may always play a card from the stock if it can fit onto the board or a sequence.
   • The game can also end if the stock runs out of cards, in which case the result is a draw.
   • At your turn you must either draw the top card of the face-down stock, or draw the top discard.
   • The remaining stock of undealt cards is put face down on the table to form the talon.
   • The players then take it in turn to either accept the top card in the discard pile or take a new card from the stock.
   • In these games, the end of this reformed stock represents the last card; in the two and four player games, the end of the original stock represents the last card.
   • If you draw a card from the stock, it can be discarded on the same turn if you wish.
   • In the first phase, each player's turn starts by the player drawing the top card from the face-down stock.

2mass noun The capital raised by a company or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares.

1982到1986年间那个公司的资本增值了86％。

1. 2.1usually stocks A portion of a company's stock as held by an individual or group as an investment.
   股份
   she owned £3000 worth of stocks and shares

   她拥有价值3，000英镑的股份和股票。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • His move was a big bet by an industry veteran that his stock will be higher a year from now.
   • If global investing leaves you cold, you can get diversity by dividing your stocks by industry.
   • As interest rates move higher, I would prefer to be in stocks rather than bonds.
   • He suggests that once investment flows slow down, Ireland remains at risk of slow economic growth due to the scale of foreign investment stocks.
   • After a three-year drought, many investors have seen their stocks or mutual funds increase in value.
   • Lower rates make savings accounts less appealing and investments like houses or stocks more attractive.
   • It has big plans for investments in stocks and real estate, and wants to do more business in private equity and foreign exchange.
   • As these people grow old, theory has long projected, they will cash out of the stocks and stock mutual funds that now fill their retirement accounts.
   • Nowadays the middle classes are just as likely to have accumulated quoted investments, like stocks, bank accounts and other assets.
   • Investments like stocks, businesses and real estate are much harder to hide.
   • What if you don't own your investments directly but have stocks in a mutual fund or pension plan managed by others?
   • We own a house worth €1 million and have stocks and shares worth about €50,000.
   • The money could be invested in businesses, properties, stocks, investment funds or simply be deposited in banks.
   • For example, if an analyst owns a stock under discussion, what price did he or she pay?
   • Many families who invested their college reserves in stocks and mutual funds have seen their savings evaporate.
   • Half of Boomers responded that investments in stocks, bonds and real estate would provide retirement funds.
   • He plans to leave his mutual funds, stock, and Roth IRA as they are.
   • If stocks are held for only a month prior to being sold rather than two months, your investment in stocks will be halved - as a result there will be more cash available to your business.
2. 2.2usually stocks The shares of a particular company, type of company, or industry.
   股，股票
   blue-chip stocks

   蓝筹股。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A late afternoon surge in tech stocks drove the Nasdaq index 37 points higher to close at 1,708.
   • Led by high-technology stocks, the benchmark index continued its rebound to close at 8,824.36, up 282.41 points from Thursday.
   • The days when you could buy a few blue chip stocks and hold them to retirement are long gone.
   • Indeed, some institutional traders say they now prefer trading NASDAQ stocks over the Big Board's.
   • Led by the declines of PCCW and HKT, the Hang Seng Index fell, with telecom stocks and China enterprise shares losing most.
   • But in most cases the money has been invested in conservative, blue-chip stocks and high-quality bonds.
   • The top equity holdings of the scheme include blue chip stocks like Reliance, HLL, ITC, HPCL, Hindalco, it said.
   • Traditionally thought of as defensive investments, gold stocks and bullion typically zig when the market zags.
   • Thirty-one of the newcomers come from two corners of the investment universe - real estate and small-cap stocks.
   • There are a limited number of blue chip stocks on America's major exchanges.
   • Merrill Lynch has issued a bearish warning to holders of chip industry stocks: sell your shares or risk further declines in value.
   • Private accounts, he said, would only be invested in index stocks.
   • This is part of why two exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that track indexes of high-yielding stocks are taking in money fast.
   • On this day last year, the London Stock Exchange's recently created index for technology stocks hit a lifetime high.
   • They also put a portion of their investment into high-tech stocks.
   • That will affect investments beyond financial stocks.
   • In most balanced funds, blue-chip stocks and high-quality bonds are the staples.
   • The product is linked to a basket of 24 blue-chip stocks across a broad spectrum of companies and industry sectors.
   • Yet the fall in Hong Kong on Thursday was not across-the-board, as China-related shares outperformed blue chips and technology stocks.
   • ‘The trend of plummeting bluechip stocks cannot continue indefinitely,’ he says.

   Synonyms

   investments, shares, holdings, securities, equities, bonds

   portfolio
3. 2.3 (in the UK) securities issued by the government in fixed units with a fixed rate of interest.
   公债，债券
   government gilt-edged stock

   政府发行的金边债券。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Some cite technical factors, such as growing pension fund switches to fixed interest stocks, bidding up 10-year bonds and driving down the yield.
   • The assumption was that protection from the effects of inflation had to be left to sound investment policy, with the claimant investing in a spread of equities as well as more secure government stocks.
   • The reason for a with profits fund to be more heavily invested in shares than in fixed interest stocks is not a product of caprice or thoughtless gambling.
   • The only complex aspect, in fact, is choosing which gilt-edged stock to buy.
   • In recent times, the returns on government stock have been very low.
   • Here, too, supply/demand imbalances are at work, partly caused by a stampede of life companies and pension funds out of equities and into fixed interest stocks.
   • Other options available will include corporate bonds and government stock or gilts.
   • Profits from land were rarely ploughed back into agriculture, but went instead to maintain genteel urban lifestyles or were reinvested in urban property and government stock.
   • The society's portfolio of government stocks was valued at over £5 million in 1994.
   • So government stock looks for now to be the asset class of choice.
4. 2.4 A person's reputation or popularity.
   〈喻〉名声，声望
   I felt I was right, but my stock was low with this establishment

   我想我是对的，但是我在这个机构的声望不高。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Knowing my stock was low with him because of my skirts and sway back, I offered to let the Company CO make the call.

   Synonyms

   reputation, standing, status, repute, position

3mass noun Liquid made by cooking bones, meat, fish, or vegetables slowly in water, used as a basis for the preparation of soup, gravy, or sauces.

一品脱原汁鸡汤。

1. 3.1with modifier The raw material from which a specified commodity can be manufactured.
   （商品的）原材料
   the fat can be used as soap stock

   脂肪可用作制造肥皂的原料。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Here is a method for manufacturing tape tab stock that may be used to produce tape tab fasteners for disposable absorbent articles
   • Posters are made using paper stock similar to what magazines use.
   • Then the agitation stops and the soap stock settles to the bottom

4mass noun, usually with adjective or noun modifier A person's ancestry or line of descent.

她母亲是法国血统。

1. 4.1 A breed, variety, or population of an animal or plant.
   （动植物的）类，种类；种群
   the vineyards were ploughed up and replanted using different vine stock

   count noun geographically separate stocks of some species are recognized

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Yet, there are many budget-minded owners who still believe that money can be saved by planting smaller seedling stock.
   • The weanlings would have made any farmer proud and the dams drawn from all breeds were of excellent stock.
   • The billingsellaceans may form the ancestral stock from which all the subsequent articulate brachiopods are believed to have been derived.
   • If the population comes from captive stock, the birds must be taught how to survive in the wild.
   • Over the years, he persuaded the Department of Agriculture to recognise coloured stock as a European breed type.
   • Their stock was bred by them for food purposes, and was easier to get and much tastier than wild animals, which was why it was frequented by bored hunters.
   • Finally, the North and South American west coastal species appear to have evolved from the Old World smooth-seeded lupins, or from the same ancestral stock.
   • Some claim that a French dog descended from stock brought home from the Middle East by Louis IX during the Crusades also figured prominently in the mix.
   • We can accept that some creatures descended from Ark stock died in post-Flood disasters.
   • The scientists found that primitive freshwater plants provided the ancestral stock from which all of the earth's green land plants are descended.
   • It is likely the result of a separate introduction via nursery stock.
   • Lineages that had alternated between cell types produced significantly more virions than did the ancestral stock on PDE cells.
   • Some of the small, sturdy black breeds of British cattle may descend from this ancient stock.
   • Eventually, the longer-lived stocks even exhibited increased early fecundity, compared to the ancestral type of stock.
   • With container grown stock, the plant has been growing in a container for a period of time.
   • Populations that did not evolve far from the ancestral stock are all included in the long-ranging B. rhombiferus.
   • His undeviating rule appears to have been to breed high quality pedigree stock and to feed them from his own resources.
   • Always try to plant bare-root stock as soon as you get home.
   • Almost all of the earth's plant and animal stock have representatives here.
   • They are close to the ancestral stock from which other pteraspidiforms evolved.

   Synonyms

   variety, strain, line, family

5The trunk or woody stem of a living tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.

1. 5.1 The perennial part of a herbaceous plant, especially a rhizome.
   （草本植物多年生的）根茎，根状茎
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The role of the underground metameric complex in the source-sink system of perennial rhizome-forming cereals is determined by a significant proportion of rhizomes in plant biomass (30–50%), formation of a large amount of meristems in the underground stock of vegetative reproduction (more than 1000 per plant), a comparatively high respiration rate (1.5 mg CO2/(g dry wt h)), and a high nitrogen content (3.5%).

6A herbaceous European plant that is cultivated for its fragrant lilac, pink, or white flowers.

Genus Matthiola, family Cruciferae: several species, in particular the Brompton stock (M. incana) and the night-scented stock (M. bicornis)

7the stockshistorical treated as singular or plural An instrument of punishment consisting of an adjustable wooden structure with holes for securing a person's feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.

8The part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached, held against one's shoulder when firing the gun.

1. 8.1 The crossbar of an anchor.
   锚杆
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Because the mushroom anchor has no projecting stock or flukes to foul, the moored object can swing freely around a mushroom anchor.
2. 8.2 The handle of something such as a whip or fishing rod.
   （鞭子或钓竿等的）柄
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The silky voice became a bark as he fingered the stock of a whip lying across his knees.

   Synonyms

   handle, butt, haft, grip, shaft, shank, helve
3. 8.3
   short for headstock (sense 1)

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The tool was lacquered after assembly, no coating being present between the side piece and the stock.
4. 8.4
   short for tailstock

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The stock is revolved, as in the first case, by means of a cord in the hands of an assistant.

9A band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.

1. 9.1 A piece of black material worn under a clerical collar.
   （牧师衣领下系的）黑色领带
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The chess-board was brought out, and Mr. Elliot, who wore a stock instead of a collar as a sign of convalescence, but was otherwise much as usual, challenged Mr. Pepper to a final contest.

10stocksA frame used to support a ship or boat out of water, especially when under construction.

1attributive (of a product or type of product) usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.

减少25％的库存商品。

2attributive (of a phrase or expression) so regularly used as to be automatic or hackneyed.

1. 2.1 Denoting a conventional character type or situation that recurs in a particular genre of literature, theatre, or film.
   （文学、戏剧或电影角色的类型或情境）老套的，陈腐的
   the stock characters in every cowboy film

   每一部牛仔电影中一成不变的人物。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • His character - a stock role that he dons like a favourite suit - is meant to be emotionally shut down, pending his awakening by the cancerous Pete.
   • Other critics cite stock characterization, weak plots, and contrived endings.
   • One of the more creative - and entertaining - sets began with the stock comedic relief character perched on a box, trying to soak in the daily paper.
   • Julia's steadfast refusal to accept the fact that she's in danger is irritating rather than sympathetic and a couple of the supporting characters are a little too stock to work.
   • Increased rationalization of the stock system thus leads to more codified systems of casting and increased typecasting.
   • Apparently ‘there's a distinct pleasure in watching someone handle what is essentially a stock murder mystery with expert literary precision’.
   • Either way, it is good to see the prince's tutor involved with his charge, and not just dressing the stage as a stock comedy character.
   • While The Eye is a strong example of genre film done right Koma, though showing flashes of style, plays it right up the middle with stock twists and shallow characters.
   • Over and above its dramatic significance, this is clearly a pretext for relocating the action to Rome, one of the stock settings of European action films.
   • Ultimately, Nurse Betty is about a woman who finds agency by dreaming up a new identity as a stock soap opera character.
   • Not only is the film a technically impressive feat, the plot so far suggests a certain cleverness on a higher level than a simple, stock genre flick.
   • Given licence to formulate his subject matter, Goya turned to scenes of contemporary life, many of which featured stock types common in prints and theatre of his day.
   • You have a range of stock film characters who can be played by different actors.
   • The villains are stock cardboard characters who practically apprehend themselves.
   • Sad Eyes, played by him makes the most out of a clichéd and stock Manga character.
   • By simplifying humans into sub-archetypes, they become less like actual humans and more like stock movie characters.
   • Yes, some of the dialogue is cliche and a few of the characters are fairly stock types that we've seen over and over again before.
   • This movie really could've been made in the year it's set in, right down to the irredeemably evil, stock Japanese characters.
   • Unfortunately, the dialogue comes from a cast of stock horror characters who spit out clichés like bilge water.

   Synonyms

   usual, routine, predictable, set, standard, staple, customary, familiar, conventional, traditional, stereotyped, clichéd, hackneyed, unoriginal, derivative, formulaic, ready-made, well worn, overused, overworked, worn out, banal, trite, platitudinous, tired, run-of-the-mill, commonplace

   informal corny, old hat, hacky
2. 2.2 Denoting or relating to cinematic footage that can be regularly used in different productions, typically that of outdoor scenes used to add realism to a production shot in an indoor set.
   （有关）电影资料镜头的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Ermey and his crew travel around to a lot of different locations, as well as depending on stock footage from time to time, so the original film elements tend to vary in quality.
   • When the story heads over to Europe, it tries to take us to London and then across the continent to Austria, all using stock footage and local Portland locations.
   • Establishing shots and stock footage of the ships at Le Havre are uniformly muddy, grainy, and prone to flicker.
   • To create an opening for the video, stock footage shots of the campus were edited together into an additional sequence.
   • While it is not riddled with defects or scratches, it still looks like lost stock footage from a rotting box of ancient newsreels.
   • All the other effects are minimal, including a nuclear explosion that looks like it was lifted off some stock footage from 1968.
   • He and his crew travel to many different locations, as well as use stock footage from time to time, so the original film elements tend to vary in quality.
   • The series has been digitally remastered, which means that most scenes come through as good as new, although much of the stock war footage is faded and grainy.
   • There are some problems from the original source material, but a lot of this has to do with the abundant stock footage that was used to pad out the episodes.
   • He even used his international business degree and sold stock film at PineRidge while the show was in pre-production.
   • This would use drawings, water colours, stock footage, scenes extracted from the transcript of the Trial.
   • The BBC television series' limited budget may be affectionately referenced with comically chunky spaceship controls and hilarious use of stock footage.
   • Unlike many other spa travel books, Spa Journeys is not a compilation of promotional literature and stock photos.
   • To add insult to injury, the same stock footage, like lightning flashes or an owl perched on a branch, is repeated ad nauseam.
   • This meant split screens, enormous Day-Glo Technicolor sets, stock footage, sixties-style music and fabulous costumes.
   • In the meantime, the studios tried to minimize costs by way of reduced cast size, reliance on stock footage, and the use of summary chapters.
   • A good classic cheapie, with laughable monsters and breathtaking stock footage.
   • We'll use a lot of stock film, some of which you have seen before.
   • Giant avalanches, tidal waves, and many stock footage scenes of buildings collapsing result.
   • His direction is competent throughout but totally lacking in imagination, resulting in a movie that looks great but feels like assembled stock footage.

1Have or keep a supply of (a particular product or type or product) available for sale.

现在大多数超级市场都储备了一系列的有机农产品。

1. 1.1 Provide or fill with goods, items, or a supply of something.
   为…备货，在…中贮存；供应，供给
   I must stock up the fridge

   我必须往冰箱里备些食物。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But the paramedics are qualified to deal with any emergency and their Renault Scenic car with lights and sirens is stocked with the same kit as an ambulance, minus a stretcher.
   • Sailors and workers alike worked steadily removing wares from importing ships while stocking products for exporting vessels.
   • Our medicine cabinets are stocked with throat lozenges, painkillers and antiseptic creams designed to restore us to immediate health after the slightest scratch.
   • He denies the hospitals are in crisis and announced that all public hospitals are fully stocked with medical supplies.
   • Like any analog-oriented operation, Remote Recording is stocked with loads of outboard gear and 200 microphones from all major manufacturers.
   • The naval ship's pantry is stocked with wines, baguettes and pate, and its casual dress code is shorts and sandals.
   • Thanks to my dear mum (often referred to as Yeah-Smother instead of Yes, Mother) my pantry and freezer is stocked with a litany of epicurean failures.
   • For example, all of Canada's ATMs must be sufficiently stocked with enough actual paper cash every day to ensure that everyone who comes to withdraw some can do so.
   • Muleteers provide aid stations stocked with Peruvian cheese sandwiches, coca tea, and other energy foods along every trail; camps await runners at the end of each day.
   • Officials say that hospitals and evacuation centers have been fully stocked with everything necessary to face an emergency.
   • The Blue Horizon was stocked with a large supply of caffeinated drinks and she was delighted to have so much to live on.
   • It is also stocked with books, maps, a series of telescopes and ledgers for guests to record distinctive markings of elephants, which are under great watch as overpopulation is an increasing problem.
   • There are hundreds of stories like Jefferson's on the Westside; practically every household, it seems, is stocked with inhalers and a cupboard full of pills.
   • The wash-basin area will be stocked with top-of-the-range Molton Brown toiletries, air fresheners and soft fluffy towels.
   • We took our time wandering through its 24 rooms, which are plentifully stocked with works by famous and less-famous artists who were either born locally or spent most of their lives here.
   • The small foyer boasts built-in cupboards that are stocked with all the essentials you might need for a straight-from-work weekend away.
   • He said the games room - which would be stocked with computer, X-box, Game Cube and PlayStation games and terminals - would be the first of its kind in the area.
   • We slept in twin bedded rooms, with sheets and duvets provided, and the bathrooms were stocked with soap, towels, hair shampoo and dryers.
   • We expect to see a good deal more of the same as the appeals process commences, and fervently hope the courtroom will be stocked with an adequate supply of tissues.
   • It must be stocked with her favorite foods, don't you think?

   Synonyms

   supply, provide, equip, furnish, provision
2. 1.2stock upno object Amass supplies of something, typically for a particular occasion or purpose.
   （尤指为某个特定时刻或目的而）备货；囤积
   I'm stocking up for Christmas

   我正在为圣诞节置办物品。

   you'd better stock up with fuel

   你最好储备些燃料。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Justin and I will stock up on the basic supplies and gather some makeshift weapons.
   • While stocking up on business supplies, she also continued to amass victories in tae kwon do.
   • He claimed he had been stocking up on his supplies before prices rose over Christmas.
   • Still, that hasn't stopped people from panicking and stocking up on supplies.
   • They stocked up on supplies, including 20 kg of the famous Panama chillies, which are about the size of a small tomato.
   • American citizens are being advised to prepare emergency provisions and stock up on supplies of water.
   • We arrived at the last post before the border to stock up on supplies and food-stuffs at about 7am.
   • All householders will be advised to stock up with reserve supplies of food and bottled water.
   • International governments begin stocking up on their supply of Tamiflu.
   • All over the country, shops and garages were invaded by people stocking up on supplies.
   • With my vast one-time experience, I will tell you to start stocking up on supplies now.
   • The market was bustling with shoppers stocking up on supplies prior to the Sabbath.
   • At Fenwick's in Coppergate, store chiefs stocked up on huge supplies of hats in preparation for the week, with race-goers buying headgear right up to the last minute.
   • Lorries from all over the country come and go, stocking up on salt supplies for any severe weather ahead.
   • For ten weeks I walked, avoiding roads and towns except to stock up on supplies.
   • They also used the trip to stock up on baby supplies, which are cheaper in America.
   • Pittsburgh was a port for settlers heading west to stock up on supplies before moving on.
   • Long lines quickly formed at grocery stores and gas stations, as worried residents stocked up on supplies.
   • As a restaurant they had had the foresight to stock up with office supplies.
   • He set an example by stocking up on essential supplies and installing a woodburning stove and new, double-glazed windows.

   Synonyms

   fill, fill up, load, restock, replenish

   amass supplies of, obtain a store of, buy up, stockpile, lay in, put away, put aside, put down, store up, collect, gather, accumulate, hoard, cache

   informal squirrel away, salt away, stash away

2Fit (a rifle or other firearm) with a stock.