stand for something
phrasal verb with stand verb uk/stænd/ us/stænd/ stood | stood
(ACCEPT)
容忍，忍受
If you will not stand for something, you will not accept a situation or a particular type of behaviour.
I wouldn't stand for that sort of behaviour from him, if I were you. 我要是你的话，就不会容忍他那样的行为。
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- I'm not going to stand for that sort of behaviour in my class.
- He can't speak to me like that - I'm not going to stand for it!
- Her behaviour is totally out of order and I'm not going to stand for it.
- There has to come a point when you say, enough is enough, I'm not going to stand for it.
- She wouldn't behave like that with him - he wouldn't stand for it.
(REPRESENT)
B2 支持，主张;代表
to support or represent a particular idea or set of ideas
This party stands for low taxes and individual freedom. 这个政党支持低税率，主张个人自由。
B2 （字母）是…的缩写，代表
If one or more letters stand for a word or name, they are the first letter or letters of that word or name and they represent it.
GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. GMT 是 Greenwich Mean Time（格林尼治标准时间）的缩写。
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- I despise him and everything he stands for.
- The socialist party have lost sight of what they stand for.
- So what do they stand for - what's their agenda?
- The 'E' in her initials stands for 'Emma'.
- UFO stands for 'unidentified flying object'.