| 释义 |
do duty as (or for)Serve or act as a substitute for something else: the rusting shack which did duty as the bridge...- In China there is a single word which does duty for all these animals.
- My first and second pacers weighed a hefty 200 gm (now doing duty as a paperweight - how the mighty are fallen!) and I had to clutch my chest with my hand while running!
- The main tradition of our historical fiction has been rather homely and dour, with puritanism doing duty as the mother of necessity.
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