Stake check
[法] 过期支票
🧩 词语组成解析
stake
[steik]
n. 桩;刑柱;股份;（在公司、计划等中的）重大利益;
vt. 用桩支撑;以…下注[打赌];用桩区分，界分;
check
[tʃɛk]
vt. 检查，核对;制止，抑制;在…上打勾;
vi. 核实，查核;中止;打勾;[象棋]将一军;
n. <美>支票;制止，抑制;检验，核对;
🗣️ 情景例句
Hi, Tom. How are you doing?
喂，汤姆。你好吗？
There is noaccounting for tastes.
人各有所好。
When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.
当我们说“他罪有应得”这句话的时候，我们部分承认了某种特定的环境使得正义自动地起了作用。