stand in the gate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence. dated,idiomatic
    — "What brings you to my poor door?" she cried, speaking high through her nose. "I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband to stand in the gate for me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!" she added partly to herself.

词形变化

stands in the gate present,singular,third-person standing in the gate participle,present stood in the gate participle,past stood in the gate past stand in the gates alternative
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