英和和英

動詞

stand with (third-person singular simple present stands with, present participle standing with, simple past and past participle stood with)

1. (idiomatic) To back or side with; to support (in reference to literally standing alongside someone to show one's support).

   We have declared that we stand with the protestors.

   • 2020 March 9, Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2020:

     "I stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me," Jackson said to cheers. "I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for justice for the people. I stand with him because he stands with you."

   • 2020 April 19, Uri Friedman, “New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 3 June 2020:

     People feel that Ardern "doesn’t preach at them; she's standing with them," Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, told me.

   • 2022 October 11, “G7 vows to support Ukraine for as long as it takes”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2022:

     "We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes," the joint statement said.

2. (obsolete)
   1. To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
      • 1714, François Pétis de la Croix (tr. Ambrose Philips), The Thousand and One Days:

        But still remember, added she, that you must not stand with him about the price: Whatever he shall ask of you, you must not fail to give it.

   2. To exist alongside; to coexist.
      • 1572, John Jones, The bathes of Bathes ayde, page 11:

        And it is an exhalacion, hot and drye, included in the concauities of the earth, where it seeking a passage out, and not fynding, it is laboured, being so laboured, it is rarified, and beinge rarifyed, is kindled, bycause great rarefaction standeth with great heate.

   3. To be in agreement with.
      • 1825, Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in The Talisman:

        Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward?

   4. To spend time with.
      • 1631, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London:

        A Barber stood with her on Saturday night very late, when he had shau'd all his Customers, and as I thinke, came to trimme her.

   5. (nautical) To travel alongside.
      • 1837, George Windsor Earl, The Eastern Seas, page 12:

        A number of large fishing-boats were coming in from sea, and standing with us into the roads; and although we were running at the rate of seven knots an hour, they passed us with great rapidity.

   6. (typography, of a character) To align with.
      • 1755, John Smith, The Printer's Grammar, page 35:

        Another advantage would be found, when a Printing-houſe ſhould happen to be ſold, that the Letter of it would ſtand with another Fount of the ſame Body.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stand,‎ with.
   • 2011 October 31, “Sex worker tells inquiry Pickton raped her”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 3 October 2022:

     She testified that she was standing with another sex worker on a street just south of the Downtown Eastside on a snowy winter day when a blue Chevrolet drove up.