词汇释义
hoard TEM8 TOEFL GRE
UK /hɔːd/ US /hɔːrd/
verb, If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you. 贮藏，囤积
noun, A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to you or you do not want other people to have.贮藏物，隐藏物，收藏物
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外刊例句
1. The impulse to hoard harkened back to the oil shocks of the 1970s and appeared to touch a chord in the national psyche.(New York Times)
2. That we spend time and energy not to just try to hoard our life and our memories, but that we also actively try to be empathetic to different people, younger people.(New York Times)
3. But consumer advocates say growing competition between firms to hoard such data puts consumers at risk, since it is not always clear how that data is then used.(Reuters)
4. Cafeterias and schools shut down, creating little need for small paper milk cartons as hoards of consumers rushed to stock up by the gallon.(Washington Post)
5. Those customers continued to hoard cash, even as equity markets rebounded lately, executives at Bank of America and Morgan Stanley said.(Reuters)
6. Early on, consumers hoarded essential items, then moved to small appliances, such as toaster ovens and waffle irons, as social distancing procedures became more routine.(Washington Post)
7. Investors will also look for how far Berkshire dipped into its $128 billion year-end cash hoard, whether through investments in other stocks or repurchases of its own.(Reuters)
8. The council also suggests that parents “buy back” candy from their children, exchanging cash for some of the hoard a kid collects and infusing that with discussions about decision-making and more.(Seattle Times)
9. The Germans hoard cash, which they then expect the rest of the world to borrow and pay interest on to keep them in a bountiful retirement.(The Guardian)
10. A recent survey of 2,000 European firms by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that they still hoard cash against a future downturn.(TheEconomist)
11. Might these firms hoard cash just because they are run by megalomaniacs who are too rich and odd to obey any rules?(TheEconomist)
12. There is a growing hoard of cash piling up because Germans tend to save a lot, as does their government.(The New Yorker)
词汇搭配
big, large, major, vast, small hoard |hoard of
hoard money, food, cash
词汇家族
hoards, hoarding, hoarded, hoarder
词汇来源
Old English hord "a treasure, valuable stock or store, an accumulation of something for preservation or future use," hence "any mass of things preserved by being deposited together," from Proto-Germanic *huzdam (source also of Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal."
近义词
cache, store, stockpile, collect, treasure, cherish
反义词
discard, dump, unload,consume, squander, waste, relinquish, dissipate, deplete, exhaust, dispel, disperse
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