堅持住：stick有幾種意思

Hot girls always stick together.

——Big Bang Theory

性感的姑娘總是一起玩。

——《生活大爆炸》

一、你知道stick有幾種含義嗎？

n.

1.杖，棍，棒 a woody piece or part of a tree or shrub

Tell the boy not to swish the flower heads off with his stick.

告訴那小男孩別用棍子把花朵抽下來。

2.枯枝，柴枝；木條，木棍 a long slender piece of wood or metal

The plant's tendrils curled up the stick.

植物的卷鬚盤繞在枯枝上。

3.呆頭呆腦的人 a dull, inert, stiff, or spiritless person

4.條狀物，棒狀物，棍狀物  an herbaceous stalk resembling a woody stick

There's a stick of celery.

這兒有一根芹菜。

4.嚴厲的批評；大肆的取笑 punishment or the threat of punishment

It's not motorists who give you the most stick, it's the general public.

對你批評最嚴厲的並不是駕車人，而是普通民衆。

v.

1.緊靠，依附；緊隨 [I] to fix sth to sth else

His dog always sticks to him.

他的狗總跟在他的身邊。

2.刺，戳，插 [I,T] to push sth, usually a sharp object into sth

Don't stick the fork into the potato.

別用叉子插土豆。

3.粘住，粘貼，張貼 [I,T] to fix sth to sth else

Stick a label on your suitcase.

把標籤粘貼在你的手提箱上。

4.堅持 [I,T] to continue doing or using sth and not want to change it

They will stick up for their beliefs.

他們將捍衛自己的信仰。

5.伸出 [I,T] to be further out than sth else or come through a hole

Don't stick your head out of the window.

別把頭伸出窗外。

二、詞義辨析：還有哪些單詞能表示“手杖”的意思呢？

cane, stick, staff

這些名詞均有“手杖”之意。

cane多指用藤或竹製成的細長的手杖。

stick普通用詞，指木製的細長手杖。

staff多指走路爬山時用作支持或防衛使用的長木棒。

三、含有stick的常見短語

joss stick

n.(中國人拜佛時焚的)香

shooting stick

n. 手杖

size stick

n. 量腳尺

stick around

v. 逗留

stick by

忠於,支持,堅持

四、最後，來做個填詞遊戲吧

She pegged at her child with a ____.

她用一根木棒打她的小孩子。