stead

stead /sted/ noun

1 do something in somebody’s stead formalINSTEAD to do something that someone else usually does or was going to do 代替某人做某事

Pearson was appointed to go in Harrison’s stead.

皮尔逊受命接替哈里森的工作。

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do something in somebody’s stead• Garcia is unable to attend, but will send the foreign minister in his stead.

2 stand/serve/hold somebody in good stead to be very useful to someone when needed 〔需要时〕对某人很有用

His years of training were standing him in good stead.

多年的训练对他很有好处。

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stand/serve/hold somebody in good stead• These shoes had stood him in good stead.• This habit of work, which is by now natural to me, has stood me in good stead.• But her beloved circus may have served her in better stead than regular outings to, say, the ballet.• As a small boy, I devised my own set of cartoon animals, and they now stood me in good stead.• Despite his lack of political experience, Clouthier's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead.• Now we had moved on to bigger and better things, this predictability still stood us in good stead.• Those contacts, he says, still serve him in good stead today.• Insomnia would stand him in good stead in this expanse of knee-high cover.

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stead• If some one would die in Admetus' stead, he could live.• The change in the secretary general is likely to stand her in good stead with committee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.• Those contacts, he says, still serve him in good stead today.• These shoes had stood him in good stead.• They have stood the Royal Navy in good stead.• If you develop good habits they will stand you in good stead in your business and managerial career.• The 356 series was about to die and in its stead was coming the 911.• A man-made clock would certainly prove a useful accessory to astronomical reckoning but could never stand in its stead.

Origin stead

Old English stede “place”

stead noun

Chinese

Corpus

BNC: 13707 COCA: 20027

stead

To replace, or to be replaced: replace, change, renew...

To help someone: help, assist, support...

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