网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 press-into-service
释义

press something/someone into service


idiom
to use something or someone that is not completely suitable because nothing or no one more suitable is available: 将就使用,临时凑合用
The car's broken down so I've had to press my old bike back into service.汽车坏了,我只好凑合骑自己的旧自行车了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using and misusing
adopt
adoption
avail
avail yourself of something
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
give/allow something full playidiom
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
spare
spent
swallow
tap
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse
underused

随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 2:08:45