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make-and-break

/meyk-uhn-breyk/US // ˈmeɪk ənˈbreɪk //

赚取和破坏,赚取和打破,补缺补漏,补缺补差

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

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

  • Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.

  • And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.

  • The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.

  • And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

  • She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.

  • Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.