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carrying on

/kar-ee-ing-on, -awn/US // ˈkær i ɪŋˈɒn, -ˈɔn //

继续,继承,继续进行,贯彻执行

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural car·ry·ings-on.Informal.

    • : irresponsible, irritating, self-indulgent, or overwrought behavior: The baby-sitter was exhausted from the child's noisy carrying-on.
    • : improper or immoral behavior.

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Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • “Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.

  • Then the two bodies of the men were buried, carrying them together from the street to the grave.

  • Five hundred of our fighting men are running to and fro between cliffs and sea carrying stones wherewith to improve our pier.

  • The carrying of these heavy government debts is a question of the future production of goods, of commerce, and of saving.

  • They are cells which have been highly differentiated for the purpose of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.