stay用作及物动词时，接名词或代词作宾语，还可用作系动词，接名词、形容词或过去分词作表语。stay的现在进行时可表示按计划、安排或打算等将要发生的动作，句中常有表示将来时间的状语或时空的上下文。
1.停留；待
如：We ended up staying for lunch.
我们最终还是留了下来吃午饭。
2.保持；继续是
如：He never stays angry for long.
他生气时间从来不会长。
3.暂住；逗留
如：My sister's coming to stay next week.
下星期我妹妹要来住几天。
4.停留；逗留（时间）；作客
如：I enjoyed my stay in Prague.
我在布拉格逗留期间过得很开心。
5.固定不动；留在原地
如：He was forced by his condition to stay put and remain out of politics.
他的健康状况迫使他留在原处,置身于政坛之外。
6.不去,远离(某地)
如：Government employees and officers also stayed away from work during the strike.
政府雇员和官员在罢工期间也没去上班。
7.不参与；不卷入
如：In the past, the UN has stayed out of the internal affairs of countries unless invited in.
在过去，除非有国家提出请求,否则联合国不会干涉各国内政。
8.住一晚；过夜
如：They had invited me to come to supper and stay the night.
他们邀请我去吃晚饭并住上一晚。
