英:['kætʃ'æsk'ætʃk'æn]
美:['kætʃ'æsk'ætʃk'æn]
英:['kætʃ'æsk'ætʃk'æn]
美:['kætʃ'æsk'ætʃk'æn]
adjective
using any available means or method : hit-or-miss
a catch-as-catch-can system that relies on borrowed judges—Patricia Nealon
adjective
using any available means or method : hit-or-miss
a catch-as-catch-can system that relies on borrowed judges—Patricia Nealon
The first known use of catch-as-catch-can was in 1833
1 we're always having drop-in guests at our beachfront cottage, and sleeping arrangements tend to be catch-as-catch-can
2 Cone collection, done by local residents who are paid by the bushel, is a catch-as-catch-can kind of business.
3 Their thorny flawed catch-as-catch-can humanity now stands in stark contrast to the majority of movies that have been spun off from comic books over the last 40 years.
4 Hugh was leading a catch - as - catch - can life , working as an itinerant handyman.
休靠当流动临时工凑合着过活.
5 We went hitchhiking for two weeks and lived catch - as - catch - can.
我们搭便车旅行两周,生活过得马马虎虎.
6 He is kind of a walking dead, leading a catch - as - catch - can existence.
他像行尸走肉般地活着, 得过且过.
7 Politics is rather a catch - as - catch - can business.
政治是一种相当 变幻莫测 的事务.
8 As soon as he left his table, a foreign diplomat gra ed his cho ticks as a historical souvenir.
他刚一离开桌子,一名国外的外交人员就抓起了他的筷子,把它作为了具有历史意义的纪念品。
2 乱七八糟的
broken upside-down disconnected unkempt untidy rough-and-tumble rigmarole slipshod jumbly higgledy-piggledy
3 自由式摔跤
4 没有限制的
5 不择手段的
slim cut-throat Machiavellian unscrupulous machiavellian machiavelian jackleg dirty careerist
6 凑合的
7 乱七八糟
broken upside-down disconnected unkempt untidy rough-and-tumble rigmarole slipshod pell-mell jumbly topsyturvy higgledy-piggledy amorphism tumble mull foul-up
8 胡搞
10 没有限制
12 得过且过
13 得过且过的
14 不择手段
stick at nothing stop at nothing dirty careerist by hook or crook by fair means or foul play hard
16 胡乱