but for 的定义
- Except for, were it not for. For example, But for the afternoon shower, it was a perfect day, or But for the children, they would have gotten a divorce long ago. [c. 1200]
but for 近义词
等同于 barring
更多but for例句
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
- Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
- Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
- Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
- The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
- At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
- Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
- When he first worked her she had the old bee-but boiler, 24 feet in diameter.
- But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).