buck for

龅牙的人龅牙的

buck for 的定义

  1. Strive for, aim for, as in She's bucking for Editor of the Year. Strongly associated with seeking a promotion in the military, this expression originated in the late 1800s and is now applied more widely.

buck for 近义词

buck for

等同于 favor

更多buck for例句

  1. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  2. Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.
  3. President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
  4. There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
  5. Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
  6. G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
  7. We squatted in the long grass and buck-brush, listening, and a few seconds later heard a horse snort distinctly.
  8. The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
  9. At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
  10. Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.