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N-COUNT
一堆;一疊
A stack of things is a pile of them.
例句
There were stacks of books on the bedside table and floor.
床頭桌和地板上有幾摞書。
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VERB
將…碼放整齊
If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles.
例句
Mme Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates...
凱西亞德夫人正在將干凈的瓶子整齊地碼放在板條箱里。
They are stacked neatly in piles of three.
它們每 3 個一組被整齊地碼放在一起。
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N-PLURAL
一大堆;許多
If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it.
例句
If the job's that good, you'll have stacks of money.
如果這個工作真有那么好，你將會賺很多錢。
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VERB
在(某組織機構中)安插(對自己有利的人員)
If someone in authority stacks an organization or body, they fill it with their own supporters so that the decisions it makes will be the ones they want it to make.
例句
They said they were going to stack the court with anti-abortion judges...
他們說將會往法院中安排一些反對墮胎的法官。
The committee is stacked with members from energy-producing states.
該委員會中安插進了幾位來自能源生產州的成員。
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PHRASE
情況對…不利
If you say that the odds are stacked against someone, or that particular factors are stacked against them, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed in what they want to do because the conditions are not favourable.
例句
The odds are stacked against civilians getting a fair trial...
平民難以得到公正的審判。
Everything seems to be stacked against us.
一切好像都對我們不利。