stack

1. N-COUNT A stack of things is a pile of them. 摞; 堆

There were stacks of books on the bedside table and floor. 床頭桌上和地板上有一摞摞的書。

2. V-T If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles. 堆放; 摞起

Mrs. Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates. 卡提亞夫人當(dāng)時正在把干凈的瓶子堆放到板條箱里。

3. PHRASAL VERB Stack up means the same as . 堆放; 摞起

He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back. 他命令他們在他背后堆放一些枕頭。

4. N-PLURAL If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it. 堆[非正式]

If the job's that good, you'll have stacks of money. 如果那份工作真那么好，你就會有成堆的錢。

5. PHRASE 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. 形勢對某人不利

The odds are stacked against civilians getting a fair trial. 形勢對想得到公正判決的平民不利。