stay的经典引文是：They..drive..into a stall behind my tent, uprooting the tent stays.出自：P. Matthiessen。stay过去式:stayed；过去分词:stayed；现在分词:staying；第三人称单数:stays。stay【近义词】abide。
一、详尽释义点此查看stay的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.停留;逗留;留下
If youstay where you are, you continue to be there and do not leave.
e.g. 'Stay here,' Trish said. 'I'll bring the car down the drive to take you back.'...
“呆这别动，”特里西说,“我会把车开过来送你回去。”
e.g. In the old days the woman stayed at home and the man earned the money.
过去，女主内，男主外。
2.(在某城市、旅馆或别人家)暂住，逗留
If youstay in a town, or hotel, or at someone's house, you live there for a short time.
stay的反义词
e.g. Gordon stayed at The Park Hotel, Milan...
戈登下榻在米兰的帕克饭店。
e.g. He tried tostay a few months every year in Scotland.
他每年都会争取在苏格兰住几个月。
3.保持;维持
If someone or somethingstays in a particular state or situation, they continue to be in it.
e.g. The Republican candidate said he would 'work like crazy tostay ahead'.
共和党候选人说他将“拼命保持领先优势”。
e.g. ...community care networks that offer classes on how tostay healthy...
开设养生课程的社区保健网络
4.不去,远离(某地)
If youstay away from a place, you do not go there.
e.g. Government employees and officers also stayed away from work during the strike...
政府雇员和官员在罢工期间也没去上班。
e.g. Every single employee turned up at the meeting, even people who usually stayed away.
所有雇员一个个不落都参加了会议，甚至平常不去开会的人都去了。
5.不参与;不卷入
If youstay out of something, you do not get involved in it.
e.g. In the past, the UN has stayed out of the internal affairs of countries unless invited in...
在过去，除非有国家提出请求,否则联合国不会干涉各国内政。
e.g. After months of staying well out of the problem, Washington has expressed a willingness to help find a solution.
几个月以来都不曾介入该问题的华盛顿方面已表示愿意帮助寻求解决方案。
6.被普遍接受
If you say that something ishere to stay, you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.
e.g. Satellite TV is here tostay...
卫星电视已被普遍接受。
e.g. Nuclear weapons are here tostay because they have changed the way countries approach the idea of war.
核武器已被广泛接受，因为它们改变了各国处理战争的方法。
7.固定不动;留在原地
If youstay put, you remain somewhere.
e.g. He was forced by his condition tostay put and remain out of politics...
他的健康状况迫使他留在原处,置身于政坛之外。
e.g. Nigel says for the moment he is very happy tostay put in Lyon.
奈杰尔说目前他很乐意留在里昂。
8.住一晚;过夜
If youstay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
e.g. They had invited me to come to supper andstay the night.
他们邀请我去吃晚饭并住上一晚。
相关词组：stay instay onstay outstay up
四、例句
I stayed late at the party last night.
昨晚我在晚会上呆到很晚。
You can stay at home and watch TV.
你可以待在家里并且看电视。
Why don't you come to stay with us next time you visit Durham?
下次来达勒姆就住在我们这儿好吗?
The temperature has stayed hot this week.
本周气温一直都很热。
We must be able to stay impartial at all times.
我们必须经常保持公正的态度。
He went straight to New York without a stay in Hongkong.
他直接去了纽约,没在香港停留。
He made few friends during his stay in the village.
他在这个村子逗留的期间，没有交上几个朋友。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
They..drive..into a stall behind my tent, uprooting the tent stays.
出自：P. MatthiessenIn this world of change the point of view..never continues in one stay.
出自：J. A. FroudeEmily scarcely stayed to thank him.
出自：A. RadcliffeA Water-man..hath his Soueraigne by the hand, to stay him in and out the Barge.
出自：John Taylor七、词语用法
stay的相关近义词
abide、adjourn、allay、arrest、check、continue、curb、defer、delay、detain、endure、wait、delay、halt、holiday、pause
stay的相关反义词
stay的相关临近词
STD、stave、stayer、stay on、Stayner、stay up、stay at、staypak、Stayton、Staykov、stayguy、Stayman