stand forsth
—phrasal verbwithstandverbuk/stænd/us/stænd/stood|stood
(ACCEPT)
If you will notstandfor something, you will notacceptasituationor aparticulartypeofbehaviour.
容忍，忍受
I wouldn'tstandfor thatsortofbehaviourfrom him, if I were you.我要是你的话，就不会容忍他那样的行为。
- I'm not going tostandfor thatsortofbehaviourin myclass.
- He can'tspeakto me like that - I'm not going tostandfor it!
- Herbehaviouristotallyout oforderand I'm not going tostandfor it.
- There has to come apointwhen you say, enough is enough, I'm not going tostandfor it.
- She wouldn'tbehavelike that with him - he wouldn'tstandfor it.
(REPRESENT)
B2
tosupportorrepresentaparticularideaor set ofideas
支持，主张；代表
Thispartystandsforlowtaxesandindividualfreedom.这个政党支持低税率，主张个人自由。
B2
If one or morelettersstandfor a word orname, they are the firstletterorlettersof that word ornameand theyrepresentit.
（字母）是…的缩写，代表
GMTstandsfor Greenwich Mean Time.GMT 是 Greenwich Mean Time（格林尼治标准时间）的缩写。
- Idespisehim and everything hestandsfor.
- Thesocialistpartyhavelostsightof what theystandfor.
- So what do theystandfor - what'stheiragenda?
- The 'E' in herinitialsstandsfor 'Emma'.
- UFOstandsfor 'unidentifiedflyingobject'.