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put away

收起,收起来,收回,收好

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to return to the correct or proper placehe put away his books
    • : to saveto put away money for the future
    • : to lock up in a prison, mental institution, etcthey put him away for twenty years
    • : to eat or drink, esp in large amounts
    • : to put to death, because of old age or illnessthe dog had to be put away

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Examples

  • To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

  • Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

  • He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.

  • So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

  • But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.

  • It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

  • He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.