单词 | hoard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | hoard1 nounhoard2 verb hoardhoard1 /hɔːd $ hɔːrd/ noun [countable] Word OriginWORD ORIGINhoard1 ExamplesOrigin: Old English hordEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthings of the same type that you store► supply a collection of things that someone hides somewhere, especially so they can use them laterhoard of the discovery of a hoard of gold coins a large quantity of something that you keep, and that you replace regularly because you use it often: · Food supplies in the camp were already running out.supply of: · The hospital keeps a large supply of blood for use in emergencies.· First prize was a year's supply of baby food. ► stock the amount of a particular product that a shop keeps to be sold: · Buy now while stocks last!stock of: · Someone came in half an hour ago and bought up our entire stock of Italian wine.· The new video store has a huge stock of movies to rent. ► reserve something such as money, food, or water that you keep because you might need it in the future: · The country has foreign currency reserves of $83 billion.reserve of: · We had to rely on our emergency reserve of food while we were snowed in.keep/hold something in reserve: · They sold half the wood and kept the rest in reserve for winter. ► cache things, especially illegal drugs or weapons, that are kept hidden because they are illegal or secret: · The drug cache that the men were found in possession of was worth roughly $1 million.cache of: · Police have found a cache of automatic weapons in a house in the city centre. ► hoard a large number of things of the same type that someone keeps secretly, so that they can use them if they need them - use this when you think the person who keeps these things worries too much about keeping things for the future: hoard of: · I kept my own secret hoard of chocolate cookies in a big tin under the sink. hoard1 nounhoard2 verb hoardhoard2 (also hoard up) verb [transitive] Verb TableVERB TABLE hoard
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUS► keep to collect and save large amounts of food, money etc, especially when it is not necessary to do so: families who hoarded food during the strike—hoarder noun [countable]: I’m a hoarder when it comes to clothes. to leave something in one particular place so that you can find it easily: · Where do you keep the scissors?· The keys are kept in my office. ► store to put things away and keep them until you need them: · Villagers have begun storing wood for the winter. ► save to keep something so that you can use or enjoy it in the future: · He had been saving the bottle of champagne for a special occasion.· We can save the rest of the pie for later. ► file to store papers or information in a particular order or a particular place: · All the contracts are filed alphabetically. ► collect to get and keep objects of the same type because you think they are attractive or interesting: · Kate collects old postcards. ► hold to keep something to be used when it is needed, especially something that many different people may need to use: · Medical records are now usually held on computers. ► reserve formal to keep part of something for use at a later time during a process such as cooking: · Reserve some of the chocolate so that you can use it for decorating the cake. ► hoard to keep large amounts of food, money etc because you think you may not be able to get them in the future – used when you do not approve of people doing this because it is not necessary or not fair to other people: · People have been hoarding food and fuel in case there is another attack.· Rationing of basic food products was introduced to prevent hoarding. Longman Language Activatorto keep something in a particular place► keep · Where do you keep the scissors?keep something in/on/under etc something · We always keep the car in the garage.· My grandfather kept his teeth in a glass next to his bed.· Visitors are advised to keep their valuables with them at all times. ► store to keep something for a long period of time so that it is ready for you to use when you need it: · Store the medicine in a cool place.· The warehouse is being used to store food and clothes for the refugees.· The government plans to store the nuclear waste at a site in Nevada. ► keep something in storage to store something, especially a large object or a large quantity of something, until the time when you are able to use it: · All our furniture is being kept in storage until we can find a new apartment.· The meat is kept in cold storage before being sent out to supermarkets. ► preserve to store something such as food for a long time, especially after treating it in a special way so that it does not decay: · Early settlers preserved meat by drying and salting it.· Human organs, preserved in jars, lined the shelves of the laboratory. ► hoard to collect and keep a large quantity of something secretly, because you think it might be useful at some time in the future - use this when you think the person who does this worries too much about keeping things for the future: · My grandmother hoards everything - jam jars, plastic bags, pieces of string - her house is a mess.· They've been hoarding food and water, convinced that some kind of catastrophe is coming. |
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