| 单词 | may as well |
| 释义 | may as wellmay as well 1 spokenSUGGEST used to suggest that someone should do something, because there is no good reason to do anything else 还是…的好，倒不如 SYN might as well If there’s nothing more to do, we may as well go to bed. 如果没有别的事要做，我们倒不如去睡觉。 You may as well tell us now – we’ll find out sooner or later. 你不如现在就告诉我们——我们迟早会知道的。 Examples from the Corpus may as well• That may as well be a word from a foreign language.• In the end the mission controllers took the very pragmatic view that they may as well continue the mission to the Moon.• If Klepner's gonna get his job he may as well do the spiel.• I may as well explain here why he did this much-criticized and desperate deed of daring...• You may as well get used to it, Oakland.• Since we're just sitting here, we may as well have a drink.• I may as well have not bothered.• You may as well not turn it on, Cooper, until after the game.• You may as well play when you are in a scoring mode.• I may as well stick it out to the end. → may as well at may1(1) 2 a) informalSUGGEST used when you do not particularly want to do something but you decide you should do it 不妨 I suppose we may as well get started. 我想我们不妨开始吧。 b) INSTEADused to mean that another course of action would have an equally good result 倒不如〔用于表示另一个行动也可能产生同样好的结果〕 The taxi was so slow we might just as well have gone on the bus. 出租车开得那么慢，我们当时还不如乘公共汽车呢。 Examples from the Corpus may/might/could (just) as well• It might as well be now.• I thought I might just as well come down to the point.• Besides, they cost so much, you might as well get some fun out of them.• And we might as well get used to it and resolve to cope.• While she was there, they might as well have added the charge of breaching the Trades Description Act.• And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.• She might as well see how the enemy behaved themselves in a place like this.• If the traveler expects the high way to be safe and well-graded, he might as well stay at home. → may/might/could (just) as well at well1(5) |
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