sink or swim
基本解释
- 成败全靠自己
英汉例句
- Two weeks ago I came to the end of eight straight weeks of staring at the ceilings of hospital rooms, and now I’m alone in a new city- sink or swim!
两周前我终于结束了整整8周在医院小隔间的生活,而现在我已经在一个新地方独立生活---或沉沦或遨游! - With technology undermining the old monopolies that postal services used to enjoy, the obvious answer is to privatise them and let them sink or swim.
随着科技正逐渐动摇邮电业曾经享受的垄断地位,明显的答案就是将邮电私有化,然后任其沉浮。 - If you’ve suddenly been dumped, you’ll have had a picture in your mind of how your life was going to be and, when it all comes crashing down, you either sink or swim.
如果你突然被人抛弃,你一定会在脑海里想象未来的生活将会变成什么样子,然而,当这一切如洪水般从天而降,您所能做的,就是要么沉入水底葬身鱼腹,要么奋力拼搏去击水中流。 - They're in this classroom -- they're sort of just thrown in to sink or swim.
WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall - Perhaps, more pragmatically, he calculated that Wahhabism and the Saud family would sink or swim together.
ECONOMIST: Sheikh Bin Baz - There is little public support for scrapping more social programmes—however dysfunctional—and leaving the poor to sink or swim.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- sink k or swim 不论成败
- Either sink or swim 成败在此一举
- swimming sink or swim 遇到河流时
- SINK OR SWIM LIMITED 公司名称
- to sink or swim 好歹;不论成败
短语
英英字典
- If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts.