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词组 stake
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stake

go to the stake for do anything to defend a specified belief, opinion, or person.

☞ 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.

pull up stakes (of a person) move or go to live elsewhere. North American

☞ The stakes are the pegs or posts which secure a tent or which are put up as a palisade around a temporary settlement.

2000Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential Steven…has chosen to leave New York for Florida with his girlfriend, pulling up stakes, giving up his apartment, even bringing along his goldfish.

stake a claim declare your right to something.

☞ 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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