词组 | stake |
释义 | stake☞ In the past, especially during times of religious persecution, heretics were liable to be tied to a wooden stake and burned alive if they refused to recant their beliefs. ☞ The stakes are the pegs or posts which secure a tent or which are put up as a palisade around a temporary settlement.
☞ This expression refers to the practice of putting stakes around the perimeter of a piece of land to which a claim is laid. It is American in origin, dating from the California gold rush of 1849, when the prospectors registered their claims to individual plots of land in this way. |
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