stocks and stones
基本解釋
- 無生命之物；遲鈍的人；偶像
英漢例句
- The crowd armed themselves with stocks and stones.
那些群眾以棍棒和石頭當武器。 - That ye be not seduced to offer your petitions to strange gods, as saints, stocks and stones.
你不要被誘惑將奇異的神作為圣人和偶像來祈求。 - Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones .
你們幻想說：我們要像異民，像各地的人民一樣敬拜木石，你們心中所想的決不能成功！ - As a result many traders are stuck with stocks, and have suffered losses as prices of small stones have tumbled by nearly 30 percent since they bought them.
- The software has odds assigned to the possibility that stocks go gangbusters, to the possibility that they sink like stones and to every possible outcome in between.
FORBES: Take Your Chances