n.

1. 贮存；（知识等的）积蓄[C][U]
   The sailor has a rich stock of tales of adventure.

   那个水手满肚子都是探险故事。

2. 进货，库存品，存货[C][U]
   There is not much stock in the shop right now.

   目前店里存货不多。

3. （公司的）股票，股份[C][U]
   Stocks of the company are falling.

   该公司的股票正在下跌。

4. 【英】公债，国债[C][U]
5. 原料，材料[U]
6. （汤等的）原汁，汤料[C][U]
7. 信任，相信[U]
8. 家畜[U]
9. 树干；插枝的母株[U]
10. 家系，血统[C][U]
    The new employee is a man of Spanish stock.

    新来的雇员是西班牙裔男子。

11. （工具的）柄，把；枪托[C]
12. 紫罗兰属植物[C]

vt.

1. 给（商店）办货，进货[（+up/with）]
2. 库存，贮存
   We stock all types of fur coats.

   我们有各种皮衣供应。

3. 给……装上把手（或柄等）
4. 供给（牧场）牲畜[（+with）]

vi.

1. 出新芽
2. 办货[（+up）]
   You had better stock up with sugar because there is going to be a shortage.

   你最好购进食糖，因为市场上马上就要缺货了。

a.[B]

1. 库存的；现有的；常备的
2. 陈腐的；平凡的；惯用的
   I'm tired of his stock reply.

   我已听厌了他老一套的回答。

n.

1. a supply of goods or materials available for sale or use.
2. farm animals bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock.
3. the capital raised by a company through the issue and subscription of shares.
   ▸ (usu. stocks) a portion of this as held by an individual or group as an investment.
   ▸securities issued by the government in fixed units with a fixed rate of interest.
4. water in which bones, meat, fish, or vegetables have been slowly simmered.
   ▸the raw material from which a specified commodity can be manufactured.
5. a person's ancestry or line of descent.
   ▸a breed, variety, or population of an animal or plant.
6. the trunk or woody stem of a tree or shrub, especially one into which a graft (scion) is inserted.
   ▸the perennial part of a herbaceous plant, especially a rhizome.
7. a plant cultivated for its fragrant flowers, typically lilac, pink, or white. [Genus Matthiola: several species.]
8. (the stocks) [treated as sing. or pl.] historical an instrument of punishment consisting of a wooden structure with holes for securing a person's feet and hands, in which criminals were locked and exposed to public ridicule or assault.
9. the part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached.
   ▸the crossbar of an anchor.
   ▸the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
10. a band of white material tied like a cravat and worn as a part of formal horse-riding dress.
    ▸a piece of black material worn under a clerical collar.
11. (stocks) a frame used to support a ship or boat when out of water.

adj.

1. usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.
2. constantly recurring; conventional or stereotyped:
   the stock characters in every cowboy film.

v.

1. have or keep a stock of.
   ▸provide or fill with a stock of something.
   ▸ (stock up) amass stocks of something.
2. fit (a rifle or other firearm) with a stock.