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单词 to stand for something
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to stand for something (or nothing)
a. intransitive. To be counted or considered as; to reckon to be. Esp. in to stand for something (or nothing): to have some (or no) value or importance.Formerly also with person as indirect object (e.g. quots. a1400, 1563).
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > be a substitute [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for ——OE
to stand in a person's stead?a1515
to be in any one's coat1530
walk1558
to serve the turn of1565
succenturiate1647
commute1653
to hand the saw1654
substitute1675
surrogate1681
to be in (another person's) shoes1767
substitute1888
pinch-hit1911
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for something (or nothing)OE
frustrate1471
unavail1866
to cut ice1894
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)]
reckeOE
recka1250
attainc1374
beforcec1375
pertaina1382
concern1477
import1539
signifya1616
to trench into (unto)1621
to bear (a) (great) state1623
urge1654
relate1655
bulk1672
refer1677
argufy1751
to be no small drinka1774
tell1779
reckon1811
to count for (much, little, nothing, etc.)1857
to stand for something (or nothing)1863
shout1876
count1885
mind1915
rate1926
OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxxvii. 338 Gyf hwa on leasre gewitnesse openlice stande & he oferstæled weorðe, ne stande his gewitnes syððan for aht.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9972 It es vs sett als in þe marche, And standes vs for sceild and targe, Agains all vre wiþerwyns.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. pr. ii. l. 3188 Yif power fayleþ þe wille nis but in ydel and stant for nauȝt [L. frustra sit].
1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) 211 b For that daye yt he heareth a masse,..if a man die: it shall stand hym for hys housell.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 34 Iupiter himself, shal stand for example.
1659 N. R. Proverbs 54 He stands for a Cipher.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 23 The two Audiences which he had receiv'd should stand for nothing.
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. ii. 28 He began to divine faintly,..that external circumstances do stand for something.
1905 Single Tax Rev. Apr. 28 Shibboleths that stand for nothing in his theorics of social adjustments.
2007 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 147 A self-satisfied pose that stands for nothing and doesn't require you take creative responsibility.
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