英语词汇“to want it both ways”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(f) to have it both ways and variants: to benefit from two incompatible ways of thinking or behaving. Also to want it both ways: to wish to benefit in this way.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > derive benefit > in two contradictory ways

to have it both ways1773

1773 B. Franklin Let. 7 July (1817) II. 369 You take money from us by force, and now you ask it of voluntary grant. You cannot have it both ways.

1822 W. Bobbett Collective Comm. 155/1 They cannot have it both ways. If one takes so much as to leave nothing for the other, without starving the people, that other must take less.

1892 Iron Age 22 Dec. 1240/1 The trouble is that the Hardware trade seems to want it both ways—that is, where they buy the large Nails they want the base fixed on the basis of high average, and when in want of small Nails they ask for special prices.

1903 Times 15 Sept. 5/6 The free importers and free fooders want to have it both ways.

1964 C. Hodder-Williams Main Experiment vii. 73 ‘It was only folklore.’.. ‘Yes, but you can't have it both ways. If it frightens you it must mean something.’

1970 G. Grant in Lament for Nation (1991) Introd. p. ix We are like the child of some stockbroker who can enjoy the fruits of his father's endeavours by living the swinging life, but likes to exclude from his mind where the money comes from. Like most other human beings, Canadians want it both ways.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 9 Aug. 11/2 He's a bit of a pain because he wants it both ways.

2005 New Yorker 16 May 63/2 Consistency means we cannot have it both ways.

单词	to want it both ways
释义	> as lemmas to want it both ways (f) to have it both ways and variants: to benefit from two incompatible ways of thinking or behaving. Also to want it both ways: to wish to benefit in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > derive benefit > in two contradictory ways to have it both ways1773 1773 B. Franklin Let. 7 July (1817) II. 369 You take money from us by force, and now you ask it of voluntary grant. You cannot have it both ways. 1822 W. Bobbett Collective Comm. 155/1 They cannot have it both ways. If one takes so much as to leave nothing for the other, without starving the people, that other must take less. 1892 Iron Age 22 Dec. 1240/1 The trouble is that the Hardware trade seems to want it both ways—that is, where they buy the large Nails they want the base fixed on the basis of high average, and when in want of small Nails they ask for special prices. 1903 Times 15 Sept. 5/6 The free importers and free fooders want to have it both ways. 1964 C. Hodder-Williams Main Experiment vii. 73 ‘It was only folklore.’.. ‘Yes, but you can't have it both ways. If it frightens you it must mean something.’ 1970 G. Grant in Lament for Nation (1991) Introd. p. ix We are like the child of some stockbroker who can enjoy the fruits of his father's endeavours by living the swinging life, but likes to exclude from his mind where the money comes from. Like most other human beings, Canadians want it both ways. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 9 Aug. 11/2 He's a bit of a pain because he wants it both ways. 2005 New Yorker 16 May 63/2 Consistency means we cannot have it both ways. extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ < as lemmas
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