a)stack something ↔ up to make things into a neatpile 整齐地堆放某物
b)informalCOMPARE used to talk about how good something is compared with something else 比较,比高低
against
Parents want to know how their kids’ schools stack up against others.
家长希望了解自己孩子的学校比起其他学校来如何。
c)if a number of things stack up, they gradually collect or get stuck in one place 积聚起来
Traffic stacked up behind the bus.
公共汽车后面的车排起了长龙。
Examples from the Corpus
stack against• But now, because of complexpermutations resulting from an equally involved scoring system, the odds are stacking up against Conner.• At the very least, he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him.• He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidencestacked up against him.• Parents want to know how their kids' schools stack up against others.• What everyone else wanted to see was how goldmedalstandardstacked up againstprofessionalmatchracers.• They got it all stacked up against you before you walk through the door.