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all-or-nothing

/awl-er-nuhth-ing/US // ˈɔl ərˈnʌθ ɪŋ //

全有或全无,全有或全无的,不折不扣的,不成功便成仁

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not allowing for qualification or compromise; either fully or not at all operative: an all-or-nothing approach.

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Examples

  • In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.

  • Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.

  • It was very warm, and for a while they did nothing but exchange remarks about the heat, the sun, the glare.

  • "There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.