stand pat

短语

坚持

发音

AU

词形变化

standing pat stands pat 三单 stands pat stood pat standing pat 现在分词 stood pat 过去式 stood pat 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To play one's hand without drawing any more cards.

    不及物 游戏
  2. 2.

    To stop hitting; to declare one's hand as final.

    不及物 游戏

    After getting a hand of 20, the player stood pat.

  3. 3.

    To resist changes.

    习语

    China has cut rates and allowed banks to boost lending, while some countries, such as South Korea have stood pat, fearful that inflation pressures could reignite.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

hold firm stand fast stand firm

上位词 1

insist

下位词 1

hunker down

词源

Probably originally a poker phrase, with "pat" equaling "optimal", meaning that drawing more cards is unnecessary. Later the phrase came to be employed in other spheres. "Stand pat" was actively used in U.S. political campaigns of the 1900s, quickly gaining a sense of "being reactionary, resistant to dramatic changes in policy". Moreover, a noun, standpatter, was coined to denote such politicians.

来源：wiktionary