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roll with punches

/puhnch/US // pʌntʃ //UK // (pʌntʃ) //

摊手,轧轧作响,挨揍,轧制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
    • : forcefulness, effectiveness, or pungency in content or appeal; vigor; zest: a letter to voters that needs more punch.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a sharp thrust or blow to, especially with the fist.
    • : Western U.S. and Western Canada. to drive.
    • : to poke or prod, as with a stick.
    • : Informal. to deliver with vigor.
    • : to strike or hit in operating: to punch the typewriter keys.
    • : to put into operation with or as if with a blow: to punch a time clock.
    • : Baseball. to hit with a short, chopping motion rather than with a full swing: He punched a soft liner just over third base for a base hit.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a sharp blow to a person or thing, as with the fist: The boxer punches well.
  1. 1
    • : punch away, Informal. to keep trying or working, especially in difficult or discouraging circumstances; persevere: punching away at the same old job.
    • : punch in, to record one's time of arrival at work by punching a time clock.to keyboard into a computer: to punch in the inventory figures.
    • : punch out, to record one's time of departure from work by punching a time clock.Slang.to beat up or knock out with the fists.to extract from a computer by the use of a keyboard: to punch out data on last week's sales.to bail out; eject from an aircraft.
    • : punch up, to call up on a computer by the use of a keyboard: to punch up a list of hotel reservations.Informal.to enliven, as with fresh ideas or additional material: You'd better punch up that speech with a few jokes.

Phrases

  • punch in
  • punch out
  • beat to it (the punch)
  • can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
  • pack a punch
  • pleased as punch
  • pull no punches
  • roll with the punches
  • sucker punch
  • throw a punch

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inimperturbable
as inapprove
as inoverlook
as inadapt
as inconform
Synonyms
accommodate适应,容纳,适应性,适应环境attune调整,调适,适应,调谐comply遵守,遵从,遵守规定,符合规定coordinate协调,协调人,协调工作,协调性fit适合,适应,合适的,合身harmonize调和,调协,调谐,调动integrate整合,集成,融入,融合reconcile调解,调停,和解,调和tailor裁缝师,裁缝,裁缝员,尾随者yield产量,屈服,收益,收益率follow遵循,跟,按照,遵从keep保持,保持保持mind思想,心灵,介意,脑子里obey听从,遵从,服从,顺从observe观察,遵守,观察一下,观测proportion比例,配比,比率,比重square正方形,正方形的,正方,正直suit适合,适合的,适应,适应性tailor-make量身定制,订制,量身定做,量身打造tune调,调整,调子,调头be guided by以此为指导,以,以人为本,以为是clean up act清理行动,清洁行动,清理行为,清洁法don't make waves毋庸讳言,毋庸赘言,毋庸置疑,毋庸置言don't rock the boat别乱来,勿扰,勿忘初心,勿扰乱fall in with投靠,倾心于,倾心于此,归附follow beaten path循规蹈矩,循规蹈矩地走,循规蹈矩地行走,循规蹈矩地行事follow the crowd随大流,随波逐流,跟随人群,随众go by the book照本宣科,照办,照书办事,照着办go with the flow随波逐流,顺其自然,顺势而为,顺应潮流make room腾出空间,腾出空间来,腾出时间,腾出房间meet halfway中途相遇,半途而废,中途会面,中途相会move over迁居,移动,移步,迁就play the game玩游戏,打游戏,玩这个游戏,做游戏quadrate四分法,四分仪,四分体,四分卫reconciliate和解,核对,和好,调和run with the pack跟大伙儿一起跑,奔走相告,跟大伙儿一起跑步,跟大伙儿一起跑吧shape up振作起来,塑身,振作精神,振作起来吧straighten up直起身来,直起腰来,直截了当,直身toe the line守规矩,守住底线,遵守纪律,遵守规定

Examples

  • Indeed, adds Ives, the S&P snub is “a gut punch to the bulls.”

  • This started as a notch-shaped cutout, and companies have lately worked that down to a single circle that looks like someone took a hole punch tool to the display.

  • The coronavirus hit the fashion industry with a tough combination of punches.

  • Insects pack a nutritional punch, in part because they’re full of protein.

  • Cameron pulls few punches in his descriptions of world leaders — Vladimir Putin, for instance.

  • Like Mike Tyson says, you have a great fight plan until you come out and take the first punch.

  • “Ordinarily, you see punch-counterpunch-punch,” as the attacked party tries to fend off the intruder, the former official said.

  • “You might as well punch yourself in the face,” he says when asked if he read about any of the controversy.

  • And while all he says he has spoken to still believe the interrogations saved lives, he said the report was a punch in the gut.

  • A squad soon arrived to take him away, and I saw the sergeant punch him in the face even though he went quietly.

  • Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.

  • But Punch was five; and he knew that going to England would be much nicer than a trip to Nassick.

  • Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.

  • At the end of the first day Punch demanded to be set down in England, which he was certain must be close at hand.

  • "Yes," said Punch, lifted up in his father's arms to wave good-bye.