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put-and-take

/poot-n-teyk/US // ˈpʊt nˈteɪk //

放与收,放和取,放与取

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.

Examples

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

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

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

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

  • And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

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

  • 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.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.