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do for

做为,为,做,做到

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    informal

    • : to convict of a crime or offencethey did him for manslaughter
    • : to cause the ruin, death, or defeat ofthe last punch did for him
    • : to do housework for
    • : do well for oneself to thrive or succeed

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Examples

  • 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 ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.

  • With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.

  • 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.

  • His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.