sink or swim
基本解释
- 成敗全靠自己
同根派生
英汉例句
- Two weeks ago I came to the end of eight straight weeks of staring at the ceilings of hospital rooms, and now I’m alone in a new city- sink or swim!
兩周前我終於結束了整整8周在毉院小隔間的生活，而現在我已經在一個新地方獨立生活---或沉淪或遨遊！ - With technology undermining the old monopolies that postal services used to enjoy, the obvious answer is to privatise them and let them sink or swim.
隨著科技正逐漸動搖郵電業曾經享受的壟斷地位，明顯的答案就是將郵電私有化，然後任其沉浮。 - If you’ve suddenly been dumped, you’ll have had a picture in your mind of how your life was going to be and, when it all comes crashing down, you either sink or swim.
如果你突然被人拋棄，你一定會在腦海裡想象未來的生活將會變成什麽樣子，然而，儅這一切如洪水般從天而降，您所能做的，就是要麽沉入水底葬身魚腹，要麽奮力拼搏去擊水中流。 - They're in this classroom -- they're sort of just thrown in to sink or swim.
WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall - Perhaps, more pragmatically, he calculated that Wahhabism and the Saud family would sink or swim together.
ECONOMIST: Sheikh Bin Baz - There is little public support for scrapping more social programmes—however dysfunctional—and leaving the poor to sink or swim.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- sink k or swim 不論成敗
- Either sink or swim 成敗在此一擧
- swimming sink or swim 遇到河流時
- SINK OR SWIM LIMITED 公司名稱
- to sink or swim 好歹;不論成敗
短語
英英字典
- If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts.