stead

英 [sted] 美[st?d]

低頻詞暢通詞匯

stead 位置，地方，代替

來自古英語 stede,位置，地方，來自 Proto-Germanic*stadiz,位置，地方，來自 PIE*sta,站立，建立，詞源同 stand,state.引申詞義代替，縮寫自 in somebody's stead,在某人的位置。

stead: stead: [OE] Stead ‘place’ comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stadiz, which also produced German statt ‘place’ and stadt ‘town’. This in turn went back to Indo-European *st?tís, a derivative of the base *st? -, *stā- ‘stand’, which also produced English stand and Latin stāre ‘stand’ (source of English state, statue, etc). The expression in the stead of ‘in place of’, and its lexicalized form instead, originated in the 13th century, modelled on Old French en lieu de.
=> stand, state, statue, steady
stead (n.): Old English stede "place, position; standing, firmness, stability, fixity," from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (cognates: Old Saxon stedi, Old Norse staer "place, spot; stop, pause; town," Swedish stad, Dutch stede "place," Old High German stat, German Stadt "town," Gothic stats "place"), from PIE *steti-, suffixed form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Related to stand.

Now chiefly in compounds or phrases. Meaning "assistance, use, benefit, advantage" is from c. 1300. Meaning "frame on which a bed is laid" is from c. 1400. The German use of Stadt for "town, city" "is a late development from c. 1200 when the term began to replace Burg" [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]. The Steads was 16c. English for "the Hanseatic cities."

1. My years of teaching stood me in good stead.: 多年的執(zhí)教經(jīng)驗(yàn)令我大受裨益。

2. I've always felt that solid experience would stand me in good stead.: 我總覺得實(shí)實(shí)在在的經(jīng)歷會對我有利的。

4. My grandmother and aunt will be there in my parents' stead.: 我的祖母和姑媽將代替我的父母出席。