| 单词 | to do the job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do the job a. To do what is required by (a person), to suffice for. Also simply to do the job: to suffice; to be adequate or satisfactory. ΚΠ 1682 Congratulatory Poem on Whigg's Entertainm. (single sheet) If they have nor Coat nor Gown to sell, Godfrey's Cravat will do the Job as well. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 312 Had they thought fit to have gone to sleep there..they had done the Jobb for us. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. xiii. 189 A variety of ideas afford us no notion of succession unless we perceive one come before the other; nor can it be imagined that their degrees of vividness or faintness will do the job. 1829 W. M. Thackeray Let. ?18 July (1945) I. 85 I am going to take a months dancing... I think 15 lessons will do my job. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. vi. 79 At last a shot fired by the gunner did the job; it struck her foremast, which shortly afterwards went by the board. 1934 L. Steffens Let. 17 Jan. (1938) II. 974 My orders are, when up, to go out in the air and sunshine, but no change of air will do my job. 1948 J. T. Flynn Roosevelt Myth ii. ix. 219 This, with the payroll vote and the big city machines in those states was enough to do the job. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden v. 102 No spray has ever done the job for me. < as lemmas |
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