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英语单词 stockpile
英美音标 英 ['stɒkpaɪl] 美 ['stɑːkpaɪl]
中文释义 n.贮藏堆;积蓄
v.储备;储存
英语例句 (1) The country built up a stockpile of strategic metals.
(2) The speed and stockpile of the computer grow day by day.
(3) Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information.
(4) Get a hustle on to stockpile these essential material.
中文例句 (1) 该国建立了战略性金属材料贮备。
(2) 电脑的速度和贮存量与日俱增。
(3) 一个累积的庞大的信息库是社会发展至今的新变化。
(4) 赶快把这些重要材料贮放起来。
vocabulary简明 A stockpile is a large amount of something that you save for later. If you're worried about running out of your favorite flavor of bubble gum, you might decide to keep a stockpile of it.
vocabulary扩展 If you hear the word stockpile on the news, it's probably referring to weapons which are accumulated and saved by a country that might need to use them some day in the future. You can use stockpile to describe the actual cache of weapons and also as a verb, to describe the act of storing them. The word was originally a mining term that literally described a pile of ore. During World War II, stockpile became a more general term.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]大量贮备,囤积(食品或武器) If people stockpile things such as food or weapons, they store large quantities of them for future use.
  [V n]
  • People are stockpiling food for the coming winter.

    人们正在为即将到来的冬天贮备大量食物。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]大量的储备;囤积 A stockpile of things is a large quantity of them that have been stored for future use.
  [oft N of n]
  • The two leaders also approved treaties to cut stockpiles of chemical weapons.

    两位领导人还同意签署削减化学武器储备的几项条约。

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