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verbdid, doing, does, done duːdu 1with object Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified) 做，干（其行动的具体性质往往不明确） something must be done about the city's traffic 必须就城市交通采取一定措施。 she knew what she was doing 她知道自己在做什么。 我可以为你做些什么？ Brian was looking at the girl, and had been doing so for most of the hearing 布赖恩一直在和那个姑娘眉目传情，而且在听证会大部分时间里都这样。 Example sentencesExamples - Of course he is, this kid went to Yale, the reward for kids who do everything right.
- Or is it that the insurance companies are ripping us off - something must be done about this.
- I really didn't know what I was doing.
- More must be done to prevent moorland in the North West being destroyed by fire, according to a new report.
- I do accept that it cannot be done overnight, but I do think it must be done.
- Something must be done to put a stop to the all too frequent bouts of trouble which occur at the nightclub.
- They replace trust and discussion and flexibility with things that must be done.
- But Jeremy feels more must be done to find permanent homes for the homeless community.
- After doing so much for this wonderful city, why did you have to suddenly go away?
- She told him more must be done and he admitted there was a problem.
- Ms Doyle said everything must be done to ensure that this disease does not occur again.
- Are there things you are doing which could be handed over to someone else?
- If Amy wasn't with us we'd have probably done something but she was our excuse for not doing so.
- But she was also the kid who never did anything exceptionally right.
- Something must be done to halt the alarming decline in television audiences on whom it depends for its lifeblood.
- There was nothing he could do anyway at the moment.
- In this, your time of crisis, what can we Americans do to help?
- And it's me doing the reading, which makes me feel like I must have done something right.
- When the riot squad did move, it was so fast and so precise nothing could be done.
- Sometimes it seems that there is just not enough time to do everything that must be done.
Synonyms carry out, undertake, discharge, execute, perpetrate, perform, accomplish, implement, achieve, complete, finish, conclude bring about, engineer, effect, realize informal pull off rare effectuate - 1.1 Perform (a particular task)
执行，履行（特定任务） Dad always did the washing up on Sundays 老爸总是在星期天洗衣服。 Example sentencesExamples - Also, no matter how much I dislike doing the garden work, it is quite satisfying to see the end results.
- The man is extremely capable and cooks, cleans and does all his own washing and ironing.
- In the past few weeks he has done tasks around the home, such as turning lights on and off and unloading the washing machine.
- We keep in touch with what our customers want by doing two shifts on the shop floor every week and I am the manager for that time.
- Until the clothes are on the models and all the hair and make-up is done, you're never going to see the whole picture.
- When doing a manual task you really cannot avoid, use a tool with a smaller grip.
- This helps them develop a sense of responsibility and a habit for doing these tasks.
- There's loads of washing up to be done, general tidying around the house, and a whole bunch of shopping to get in.
- His mother had been a miserly woman and had not done a single charitable deed in her lifetime.
- Also I've been doing some re-writes to bring the show up to date, so that complicated the issue further.
- Will Vivian make me do evil, horrible chores?
- Starting by doing menial tasks teaches people respect for others and also earns their respect.
- I am currently doing a page by page check of changes and will bring them to your attention in the coming weeks.
- After each task, the teams swapped over their mode of transport and did the tasks all over again.
- She'd do her shopping early in the morning so as not to talk to people.
- Teachers are routinely doing tasks that were previously carried out by support staff.
- This means they've usually done all the hoovering before you get round to wanting to do it.
- It was really strange, because one moment she was just cooking and doing the chores at home, and the next moment she was on telly.
- She says that more and more, charities end up doing the tasks the state is supposed to look after.
- I spent this afternoon doing Christmas Shopping.
- 1.2 Work on (something) to bring it to completion or to a required state.
完成；做好 it takes them longer to do their hair than me 他们做头发要比我花更长的时间。 she's the secretary and does the publicity 她是秘书，要完成宣传任务。 Example sentencesExamples - Some of the ground has already been done so work on the project should start soon.
- I'm going to get my hair done a bit more often and go for facials and pamper myself a bit more.
- I had my hair and make-up done by professionals, was taught how to walk on a catwalk and got to model three outfits.
- When she left school, she did the accounts for a fruit shop.
- Go get an estimate to have it done by someone else and tell her how much she would have to pay.
- I don't like people touching my hair, doing my make-up or telling me what to wear.
- Nowadays the sales analysis is all done by computer, and is therefore totally reliable.
- He added the review had taken around two years and was done through numerous public consultations.
- During the dry weather the track to the mine was passable but work had to be done on it to carry heavy traffic.
- The chap who does the garden said he wanted to hear some of my music.
Synonyms prepare, make, get ready, fix, produce, see to, arrange, organize, be responsible for, be in charge of, look after, take on style, arrange, adjust, groom, preen, primp, prink brush, comb, wash, dry, cut informal fix - 1.3British informal no object Do the cleaning for a person or household.
〈英，非正式〉为…做清洁工作 Florrie usually did for the Shermans in the mornings 弗洛丽每天早上帮谢尔曼斯打扫卫生。 - 1.4 Make or have available and provide.
供给；提供 many hotels don't do single rooms at all 很多旅馆根本不提供单人间。 with two objects he decided to do her a pastel sketch of himself 他决定给她一幅他自己的彩色蜡笔素描。 Example sentencesExamples - We are now doing a three-course Sunday lunch for £9.95.
- The bar does meals, which looked filling, and the view over the bay is great!
- They are doing a Season Ticket: £40
- Does anyone know of a central Manhattan hotel which does family rooms?
- The lamb was pleasant enough if not amazing (I think I've been spoiled by the Turkish place on Gillygate, which surely does the best lamb in town), and the vegetables were nicely done.
- I have another chef on my yacht who does different food - fish, salads and raw vegetables.
Synonyms paint, draw, sketch make, create, produce, turn out, fashion, design, fabricate, manufacture informal knock up, knock together, knock off - 1.5 Solve; work out.
解答；算出 乔在做口算题。 Example sentencesExamples - They would watch videos, read books and do puzzles.
- I find doing crosswords strangely relaxing.
- Inspector Morse - Gruffly drinks beer and does crosswords in Oxford
- Again, multiply the two together and you'll see how the sums have been done.
- It may be that you'll need to reassess your choices once you've done some more detailed sums.
- After doing some hard financial sums, I left the day job to chase a few dreams.
Synonyms work out, figure out, calculate, add up solve, resolve, puzzle out, decipher British tot up - 1.6 Cook (food) to completion or to a specified degree.
烧好（食物） if a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean, then your pie is done 如果把刀插到中间后拔出来是干净的，饼就算做好了。 Example sentencesExamples - When those are both done, add the pasta to the bacon, and mix for a bit, then add the cream until it's all warm.
- When the burger and onions are almost done, toast the bread on the grill or in a toaster.
- On the Indian side of the menu, we recommend lamb, which is always done to perfection.
- When the cake is done let it cool completely in the cake tin before turning it out onto a plate or cooling rack.
- She handed him a towel and the phone, and then left to make sure her food was doing okay.
- 1.7 (often in questions) work at for a living.
常用于问句从事（谋生的职业） 她做什么工作？ Example sentencesExamples - But talking about this kind of thing is what I do for a living.
- Do you remember when I told you what my parents did for a living?
- I'm still unsure as to what I should be doing for a job - all I know is that it involves creativity.
- What exactly is it that you do?
- I keep asking him what he is going to do when he leaves school and he just keeps saying that all he wants to do is play football.
- What he does for a living is intensely private and frustratingly protracted.
- What does your dad do for a living?
- My sis will soon find out what I've really been doing for the past 3 years here.
- After a day or two, she discovered what I did for a living and began making local specialities, dishes not on the menu.
Synonyms do for a living, work at, be employed as, earn a living as/at what is …'s job? - 1.8 Learn or study; take as one's subject.
学习；以…为专业 I'm doing English, German, and History 我在学英语、德语和历史。 Example sentencesExamples - We did French at primary school then I did Spanish at secondary school.
- We had this sort of thing going on when I was doing my Fine Art Degree.
- In what sense are we required to follow the canons of correct reasoning when doing mathematics?
- However, doing a PhD requires a high level of emotional management both within and outwith the field.
- I am doing the most demanding degree, but I could maybe take a year out.
Synonyms study, read, learn, take a course in, take classes in, be taught - 1.9 Produce or give a performance of (a particular play, opera, etc.)
编排；表演（戏剧、歌剧等） the Royal Shakespeare Company are doing Macbeth next month 皇家莎士比亚公司下个月要上演《麦克白》。 Example sentencesExamples - What really means a lot to me is how encouraged I've been by the Brits, in terms of doing Shakespeare.
- Luckily I got over it when I was doing Side Man in London.
- Says Grandmaître, ‘At the first run-through, they were dancing like we were doing Swan Lake in New York.’
- This is going to be another whole new experience for me because I've never done Peter Pan before.
- As most of you know, our school has traditionally done Shakespeare passages for our Recitations.
- As for serious theatre, it is impossible to be more serious than doing a David Hare play, as Les did, appearing in Skylight in Newbury, or touring Helsinki in the Finnish play Cherished Disappointments In Love with Janet Suzman.
- At present we are doing a modern Russian play and another straight from New York.
- I thought it was a really compelling one and probably for the same reason I like doing Shakespeare plays.
- I am working in Norfolk doing a Christmas Spectacular - but I will have to look at a map before I set off.
- About six months later I did Spice World with them and they all taught me their moves from the video.
- When I was doing Sunset Boulevard in London, Jon Pertwee came to see the show.
Synonyms put on, present, produce, give perform in, act in, play in, take part in, participate in, be involved in, be engaged in - 1.10informal Imitate (a particular person) in order to entertain people.
扮演（角色）；演唱（歌曲）；模仿（某人） he not only does Schwarzenegger and Groucho, he becomes them 他不仅仅是扮演施瓦茨尼格尔和格劳乔，他已经变成他们。 Example sentencesExamples - Well, Jamie Foxx does an incredible performance doing Ray Charles in the movie ‘Ray’ from Universal Pictures.
- If you ask me, he does Rolf Harris better than Rolf Harris does himself!
- He does a great Elvis and my guests just loved him.
- We'd just discarded the possibility of me doing a Lara Croft convincingly.
- No one can do the Queen like you! I have found myself enthralled watching your portrayal of her.
- 1.11informal Take (a narcotic drug)
〈非正式〉吸（毒） he doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs 他不抽烟、不喝酒，也不吸毒。 Example sentencesExamples - She would be there doing heroin and I started off by just having a line on the foil.
- See if anyone else is having doubts that all the drugs they've done really were spiritual.
- She's admitted that she does cocaine.
- I've done enough drugs over the years to know what it's like.
- I have never smoked, don't drink, and have never done drugs.
- In the months previously, he had claimed he was doing up to 100 bags of heroin a day.
- 1.12 Attend to (someone)
护理；照顾（某人） the barber said he'd do me next 理发师说他下一个就为我服务。 Example sentencesExamples - A guy came in to get his lip pierced and Robbie asked if he could do him first and I told him it was no problem.
- He said he could do me after he finished the one he was doing, but I said no thanks. Ill wait until tomorrow.
- If your employees do not do another customer in between, the time would be booked as 120 minutes or two hours straight time.
- 1.13vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse with.
〈粗俚〉同…性交 - 1.14do itinformal Have sexual intercourse.
〈粗俚〉同…性交 I only ever did it in the missionary position Example sentencesExamples - I like to do it in the morning.
- I hit 16, went to college and one of the guys in my class said that he reckoned I was great in the sack and asked me to 'do it' with him behind the bike sheds.
- 1.15do itinformal Urinate or defecate.
〈非正式〉小便；大便
2with object Achieve or complete. 实现；完成，尤指 - 2.1 Travel (a specified distance)
行过；走过（一定距离） one car I looked at had done 112,000 miles 我看的一辆车已经行驶了112，000英里。 Example sentencesExamples - By now it is believed to have done the highest mileage of any comparable plane still in service.
- The car does about 35-40 miles to the gallon.
- I rode 5 miles yesterday, and did 12 miles today, and already feel better mentally and physically than I have in a few years.
Synonyms travel, journey, go, cover, travel over, pass over, journey over, traverse, cross, range over, put behind one, get under one's belt, attain, achieve, log informal chalk up, notch up - 2.2 Travel at (a specified speed)
行过；走过（一定距离） I was speeding, doing seventy-five 我在加速，开到了75。 Example sentencesExamples - As he sped across the highway out of the city, he couldn't help notice that someone was doing exactly the same speed behind him.
- The speed a car is doing is only one element which affects the safety of road users.
- Furthermore what if you were told that had they been doing the speed limit, they could have survived?
- We were doing exactly the same speeds and it was a really nice and clean fight.
- He maintains he was doing the speed limit and had no time to react.
- A number of bikers were also reported for speeding with one clocked doing 96 mph.
- Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds.
- It is tacky and I don't like not being able to see what speed you are doing.
Synonyms drive at, travel at, go at, proceed at, move at - 2.3 Make (a particular journey)
旅行 last time I did Oxford–York return by train it was £50 上次我坐牛津到约克的往返火车旅行时，票价是40英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - If they get their journey done quickly it frees up the taxi for other users.
- The journey has been done once before, by a Frenchman in 132 days just under ten years ago.
- I did London to Paris for charity last year.
- I had complete confidence in the pilot, he does the journey back and forth so many times a day he could probably do it blindfold.
- In the seven years I've been doing that journey, I'm thinking that takes my total to five.
- 2.4 Achieve (a specified sales figure)
（以一定速度）行驶；行进 our bestselling album did about a million worldwide 我们最畅销的唱片在全球销量达到了100万左右。 Example sentencesExamples - Her last album only did 130,000 in the first week.
- The second book did a fraction of the first book's sales.
- Mark my words, look in six months and no one will have any remembrance that it 'only' did one million copies in its first month.
- 2.5informal Visit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way.
〈非正式〉游览；观光（尤指走马观花或匆忙地旅行） the Americans are allotted only a day to do the Yorkshire Moors 这些美国人只有一天时间在约克郡沼地观光。 Example sentencesExamples - If you are in New York, you really have to do the Empire State Building!
- The area can be very crowded with surfers and tourists doing Land's End.
- In 1996 we did London, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam.
- We did the Eiffel Tower on Friday because we figured the queues would be shorter than on Saturday or Sunday.
- Dave is doing Europe over the next couple of months.
Synonyms visit, tour, sightsee in, look around/round, take in the sights of - 2.6 Spend (a specified period of time) in prison or in a particular occupation.
（尤指在监狱或某行业）度过（一段时间） he did five years for manslaughter 他因为杀人被关了五年。 Peter has done thirteen years in the RAF 彼得已经在英国皇家空军度过了13年。 Example sentencesExamples - She did 10 years for aggravated murder in Hawaii before her sentence was overturned.
- He did 25 years in the Air Force.
- I ended up back in prison doing fifteen months for handling stolen goods.
- He had done five years for housebreaking.
- 2.7informal no object Finish.
〈非正式〉完成，结束 you must sit there and wait till I've done 你必须坐在那儿等我做完。 with present participle we've done arguing Example sentencesExamples - Kaitlyn and I will just go upstairs and talk to Sam until you guys are done down here.
- He says a cable guy buddy of his just got done with a job and is going to come over and help him.
- I was done tidying up the house at around 12:30 pm and went down to my apartment and ate lunch.
- Well, if you guys are done over there, we're going to get to some more ‘showbiz shorts.’
- It is finished, all done, and not able to be processed because of funding issues at this point of time.
- In the middle of the course, I'm done with science and make a small bid for freedom.
- Are you done with your Christmas shopping?
- Once Varla was done she pulled out some cream and told Amy to apply it to her face.
- She is up packing our stuff right now and she should be done within five minutes or so.
Synonyms finished, ended, concluded, terminated, complete, completed, finalized, accomplished, achieved, realized, fulfilled, perfected, consummated, discharged, settled, executed - 2.8be done Be over.
the special formula continues to beautify your tan when the day is done 即使白天已经过去了，这种特别配方也会继续使你黝黑的皮肤变漂亮。 Example sentencesExamples - This is the signal that the night is done, and that the sun is coming up.
- These people should get some sort of satisfaction when the day is done.
- The working week is done and we're more than up for cocktail fun.
- 2.9be/have done withBritish Give up concern for; have finished with.
不再操心；完成，结束 I should sell the place and be done with it 我应该把这个地方卖掉，不再为它烦心。 Steve was not done with her Example sentencesExamples - He felt like crying, then, though he had promised himself that he was done with that.
- Now that my only wedding of the summer is done with, I'm wondering how to get myself on the guest list.
- We weren't allowed to talk during lunch, until we were done with the meal and out in the schoolyard.
- After all the travelling is done with for a while and Frost is settled back at home, he plans to revive a sleeping dragon.
- We need some new scandal and controversy now that that one is done with (until next year).
- When they were done with all that they lotioned up, and put on a pore minimizing mask and went to bed.
- When we were done with that, she had us all sit down at a desk.
- Hunter covered his head and waited until the swishing sounds were done with.
- When the teacher was done with that, she pulled out a pad of paper and looked once more out into the class.
- All the pomp and ceremony being done with, Lyon kick off from right to left in their dark blue.
- Later on that day, when classes were done with, Trent headed back to his room.
- When they were done with that they moved to the couch and she leaned against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her and they sat in silence for a while.
- Once she was done with that she went to her grand piano and started to play it.
- The crowd was breaking apart now that the formal ceremonies were done with.
- Once a visitor is done with all the mystic tourism Marlborough is close to hand for a bit of shopping or lunch.
- She stopped, stood up, presumed that she was done with and strode out of the room.
- I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying goodbye stuff.
- Once we were done with that, we made a dash to the speeders.
- All of the after school sports were done with for the day, and most of the teachers had gone home to prepare for the next day of classes.
- Can you honestly say that, once the back-slapping and drinks all round were done with, you would be completely overjoyed on his behalf?
Synonyms be finished with, have finished with, be done with, be through with, want no more to do with, be no longer involved with/in, have given up, have no further dealings with, have turned one's back on, have washed one's hands of, have no more truck with
3no object, with adverbial Act or behave in a specified way. （以特定方式）行动；行事 they are free to do as they please 他们可以随意行事。 you did well to bring her back 你把她带回来，这样做很好。 Example sentencesExamples - He is used to doing as he pleases and takes notice of nobody.
- Ever since Wapping they have bullied, done just as they pleased and ignored the union.
- It's cold and wet out there so I think all are just as happy to be here and doing as we please.
- He has done well to distance himself from the talk but this brawl will surely add more fuel to the fire.
- Assessment of burn area tends to be done badly, even by those who are expert at it.
- He said his client admitted he had done wrong and would behave differently if he had his time again.
- Had he chosen to remain a private citizen he could have done as he pleased.
- After seeing the injury, Brewster insisted that the police were called and accepted he had done wrong.
- They just go through life doing exactly as they please, expecting no retribution for their behaviour.
- Instead of the client telling the architect what to do, he was increasingly doing as he pleased.
- He did well to finish on the predominantly flat fast course to finish in the top 70.
Synonyms act, behave, conduct oneself, acquit oneself rare comport oneself, deport oneself - 3.1 Make progress or perform in a specified way; get on or fare.
进行；进展 when a team is doing badly, it's not easy for a new player to settle in 当一个团队进展不利时，新成员很难融入。 Mrs Walters, how're you doing? 沃尔特斯夫人，你最近怎么样？ Example sentencesExamples - But one trend is clear: smaller retailers are suffering while the big boys are doing fine.
- This is not a dramatic slashing of jobs because the company is doing badly.
- If she asks any of you how you think we've done, please give us a glowing report and a gold star.
- My husband, Charlie, is chuffed about it and he is pleased that I am doing well.
- It happens irrespective of how well or badly the economy is doing.
- I work on the basis that, if you are right eight or nine times out of ten, you are not doing too badly.
- In that case we've done pretty well, finishing in mid-table in a very competitive top flight.
- He has just been doing his A levels and he thinks he has done really badly.
- Even if one were free of need and doing well in all other respects, one would still view life as not worth living without friends.
- We needed to win in the one-day series after doing badly in the Tests.
- I have to make the most of this good spell of form, and am pleased that we are doing well in Europe.
- He's done tremendously well in the last two games and you can't get any harder than the opposition he's faced.
- I convinced myself I'd done incredibly badly, snapped at everyone in sight and was no fun at all.
- It will obviously all hinge on how well we are doing as the game progresses.
- Chairman of Hampshire Police Federation Keith Ward said he was pleased that Hampshire was doing well.
- None of those things is conducive to doing well out on the tennis court.
- A representative checks every three or four days to make sure the work is being done properly.
- I couldn't tell how well or badly I was doing since it was like taking part in a game without knowing the rules.
- I got a couple more on my retakes, and to be honest it never really bothered me that I'd done so badly.
- This time I was sure I had done well and was pleased with my performance but I lost.
Synonyms get on, get along, progress, fare, make out, get by, manage, cope, survive succeed, prosper - 3.2with object and complement Have a specified effect on.
（以一定速度）行驶；行进 散步对我会有好处。 Example sentencesExamples - He could fall and really do himself damage.
- They'll do themselves harm one way or another.
- The others have petered off and seeing us climb a few places does everyone the world of good.
- This report has done me untold damage.
- However in those days we didn't think we might be doing ourselves serious harm.
- It will do you good to have some fresh air.
- 3.3with object Result in.
导致；产生，带来…结果 the years of stagnation did a lot of harm to the younger generation 多年的萧条给年轻一代带来很多坏处。 Example sentencesExamples - The original radio series gave many well know comedians their first chance at performing to the public so it did some good.
- There's a lot of things that have to be put right because the recession did a lot of damage.
- This storm obviously did quite a bit of damage to area homes, businesses and vehicles.
- The rapid expansion in 90-92, combined with the recession, did a lot of harm financially, and the company finally went bankrupt.
4no object Be suitable or acceptable. 合适的；可接受的 if he's anything like you, he'll do 如果他像你那样就可以了。 with object a couple of quid'll do me 我要几英镑就够了。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘This sweater will do me fine,’ I answered, and I shut the door behind me
- It's not what I would have hoped for, but it'll have to do.
- About this time I realized I was still in a long dress and striped shirt, which won't do for the party.
- I'm looking for someone to blame my feelings on and you'll do.
Synonyms suffice, be adequate, be satisfactory, be acceptable, be good enough, be of use, fill the bill, fit the bill, answer the purpose, serve the purpose, meet one's needs, pass muster be enough, be sufficient informal make the grade, cut the mustard, be up to snuff - 4.1 Suffice or be usable.
a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long did for a fence 一条长20码左右的白棉布足够围栏用了。 Example sentencesExamples - A rocky ledge, we decide, will do fine as a lunch spot.
- Any piece of paper slipped between two pages would do as a bookmark, but origami bookmarks are stylish and will distinguish you apart from the rest.
5informal with object Beat up or kill. 〈非正式〉痛打；杀死 总有一天我会揍他一顿。 Example sentencesExamples - I'll do you one of these nights!
- I'll do him with an iron bar.
- Do you think he did kill himself or was he done in by someone else?
- 5.1be done Be ruined.
once you falter, you're done 一旦你站不稳，你就完了。 Example sentencesExamples - I do my warm-up set, then add a little bit more weight and I'm completely done after about 4 reps.
- My body said, ‘Okay, you're done,’ and I just fell apart.
- He did not enter the majors until he was 28 and he was done by the time he was 37.
- 5.2 Rob (a place)
打劫（某处） this would be an easy place to do and there was plenty of money lying around 这个地方很好抢，钱多得到处都是。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't know who, or what organisation, if any, did the bank.
- 5.3British Swindle.
诈骗 a thousand pounds for one set of photos—Jacqui had been done 一套照片要1，000英镑 —— 雅基上当了。 Example sentencesExamples - It was only after travelling to Amsterdam and meeting the fraudsters that she became suspicious and contacted police, who told her: ‘Sorry, but you've been done.’
- Oh - and if you ever bought this spam filter to get rid of the nasties on your computer, you were apparently done.
- The more I think about it, the more I think I've been done.
- How could some of Australia's biggest and shrewdest media outlets get done so badly.
6usually be/get done forBritish informal with object Prosecute or convict. we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH 我们因为有故意造成严重伤害的嫌疑而被起诉。 Example sentencesExamples - All this fun resulted in Donovan becoming the first pop star to be done for marijuana possession.
- I am sure I wasn't alone in being appalled by the performance of the rally drivers done for speeding this week.
- I've been done for drink-driving before.
- Today, we're finding out what life is like for a sportsperson after getting done for drugs.
- I knew I had been done - the blinding flash of the fixed speed camera in Higher Wheelton gave it away.
auxiliary verbdid, doing, does, done duːdu 1Used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will) in questions and negative statements. 构成疑问句或否定句，用于动词前（除be，can，may，ought，shall，will外） 你养宠物吗？ 他看到我了吗？ 我不抽烟。 这没关系。 Example sentencesExamples - This Government, frightened of being seen as soft on the drugs trade, does not know what to do.
- What does Shakespeare create in the play which makes it so timely for our present?
- Mum got back from holiday and said the house was so clean it didn't feel lived in.
- But he does not accept that his decision will imperil the organisation's survival.
- So does the company have what it takes to expand this market share, and can it afford it?
- We thought we saw parakeets on a tree in the distance, but we didn't investigate this time.
- If players did not argue with the referee so much the amount of yellow and red cards would be cut drastically!
- When they began to cook, did the first human beings incinerate or cremate themselves?
- Tests today revealed that the teenager did not die of drug abuse.
- The usual speed limits apply, but I did not see one speed camera in all of the miles I covered.
- Were you told about the press release before it happened, or did you discover it after it had been sent out?
- He does not accept that industrialised farming is to blame for the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
- I tried once before to recommend this to you, but did you get yourself a copy?
- Has anyone tried this sort of thing and if so, what kind of results did you achieve?
- This man noted in his diary that he did not usually lose his temper with servants.
- That evening a dance was held which did not finish until the early hours of the morning.
- Despite being the most dangerous road in the country, the A537 does not have a speed camera on it.
- The pain is usually felt on both sides may come on suddenly or gradually, and does not usually occur every day.
- Three or four students have to share a textbook as the government does not provide enough books.
- Unlike other Irish travel firms the company does not offer bookings direct from its website.
- 1.1 Used to make tag questions.
构成附加疑问句 you write poetry, don't you? 你写诗，是吗？ I never seem to say the right thing, do I? 我好像从来没有说对过，是吗？ Example sentencesExamples - You do understand, don't you?
- I look all right, don't I?
- She does go on, doesn't she?
- You do like champagne, don't you, Charles?
- He did some outrageous things, didn't he?
- 1.2 Used in negative commands.
构成否定祈使句 别犯傻。 不要忘记了。 Example sentencesExamples - You two kids have fun, and don't stay out too late.
- ‘Don't say that,’ I spat, ‘What do you know of it? Nothing!’
- Don't forget you have to earn money before you can spend it.
2Used to refer back to a verb already mentioned. 代替动词 he looks better than he did before 他看起来比以前好些。 you wanted to enjoy yourself, and you did 你想自得其乐，而且做到了。 as they get smarter, so do the crooks 他们变得更聪明了，骗子也是。 I paid for my two tickets on the train and did so without complaint Example sentencesExamples - This is going to affect myself and other residents even more than it does already.
- I accept, as Cleanthes did, that the argument does not by itself lead to that conclusion.
- Graham Lee's mount has been in good form lately and looks more at home over hurdles than he did over fences.
- It actually costs more to manage a team of volunteers than it does to manage a team of paid staff.
- Apparently you are not to expect a man to act how he did when you were simply dating.
- Looks like he's going to be spending even more time on the bench than he does already.
- But I concede that a minority of young people behave worse than they did in my own youth.
- She said it was typical of her husband to act as he did when he swam out to reach the boys.
- I didn't get up until late today but I feel more tired now than I did when I went to bed last night.
- While many of our own have forgotten the importance of honouring our country, she did not.
- Yes, it does seem impossible that my cat could sleep more than he already does, but it is true.
- Liz doesn't seem to have a blog, but Crystal Evans does, and of course so does the Homeless Guy.
- You're a much weaker person than you used to be, but you still act like you did when everyone looked up to you.
- Those who did not sign it were beaten until they did or officers simply forged their signature.
- Nothing like this could ever happen and yet it does and you will not forget.
- He has briefed me fully on the background which led him to make the statement he did.
- His conduct invited the police to draw the conclusions which they did and to act as they did.
- Comments like this makes your child feel even worse than she does already for failing at something.
- How can we expect change if the law says hitting children is acceptable, which it does now?
- On this occasion, the Warsaw native's quotes offered no clue to exactly why he chose to act the way he did.
3Used to give emphasis to a positive verb. 用于加强语气 我确实想对此采取行动。 他看起来确实累了。 Example sentencesExamples - He did seem very tired in the bath though so I think we might need to work on his stamina.
- However, the controversy does raise important questions over the use of technology in sport.
- If he does give evidence the question will depend on whether his evidence is believed.
- However the parents do live in a rather affluent area outside of San Diego.
- It's a chilling and bizarre image, but it does answer the questions better than any other theory.
- I think there is a lot of truth in that statement even if it does paint an unflattering portrait.
- In this case, the answers to the first two of these questions really does appear to be no.
- In the final act, the film does deliver a few surprises, but by that point it's far too late.
- Oh well, the tutor did mention she was interested in the reactions we would get.
- But this still does beg a question as to what is in all this for the manufacturer.
- For one thing, many Democrats seem to have forgotten that they did win the election last time.
- While not directly overlooked, the garden does look onto the side of another house.
- In that statement she does indeed make the statement which is attributed to her.
- However, it does pose the age-old question of whether or not money can buy you happiness.
- The Guardian does mention important and controversial issues, but only in passing.
- Which does rather raise the question of why the government didn't think of it two days ago.
- Where the commandment does fall down is its lack of relevance to tenement life.
- It does beg the question of why they should go to all that effort though.
- That more or less answers that question, but it does open up another can of worms.
- The film has a positive message because Bella does find friendship and love.
- 3.1 Used in positive commands to give polite encouragement.
用于加强礼貌的祈使语气 一定要告诉我！ 请坐下来。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Do tell me all about your visit,’ she continued.
- Do sit down and make yourself comfortable.
- If you're in the Valley at that time, please do come to the event, it should be great.
4Used with inversion of a subject and verb when an adverbial phrase begins a clause for emphasis. 用于倒装句 only rarely did they succumb 他们难得屈服。 not only did the play close, the theatre closed 不仅表演结束了，剧院也关门了。 Example sentencesExamples - He first searches to find where Josh is up to and only then does he begin to teach.
- Not alone did he encourage others to get involved but he is now the club's secretary.
- Rarely does a new Ring cycle begin with such confidence and lucidity, on stage and in the pit.
- Only at the turn of this year did he begin to secure headlines with his mouth shut.
- She doesn't ask me anything, nor does she refer to The Incident With The Dolls.
nounPlural dos, Plural do's duːdu informal 1British A party or other social event. 〈非正式，主英〉舞会；社交活动 the soccer club Christmas do 足球俱乐部的圣诞聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - Hen and stag dos, birthdays and a lot of parties coming back again and again ensured that it was always swinging.
- Charity dinners and celebrity dos for a cause are a trend these days - what better way to raise a big sum for a noble cause?
- I once sold a year's use of a Jaguar at one of these dos for more than the car was worth, simply because two blokes in the room were each determined to prove that they were considerably richer than the other.
- We have done so many dos for the family in the pub and we did his wedding for him and now his funeral.
- He had been Santa for nephews and nieces at family dos, and I thought he was very good.
- There's even a small selection of products for the hen and stag dos, including T-shirts featuring key words in diamanté on the front such as ‘Sexy bridesmaid’ and ‘Groom's mother’.
- It was very seldom that he went out - only family functions or Christmas dos.
- Such social dos are more or less confined to the well to do and the upwardly mobile class of young professionals.
- She is a much sought after figure to grace social dos and functions even at the age of 80.
- They made careers out of being party girls, haunting the edges of posh dos and premieres.
- In our area we have social events, sing songs and get-togethers and dos.
- We often have do's, birthday parties, anniversary's, and I'm nearly 96.
- She said: ‘We always used to feel like usurpers at those dos.’
- Jeff's workplace were having one of those dos where everyone in the company drinks beer and socialises - a pretty good idea when they all work in small teams that don't meet face to face - and Lucy and me tagged along.
- Whereas it used to be places like Newcastle, Edinburgh now attracts busloads of stag dos.
- There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits (and stupid deeley-bopper things on their heads), with even more rubbish shoes.
- ‘The dinner he was invited to wasn't even one of our most important dos,’ the source said.
- But it hasn't all been boring work - I've had a couple of fun nights out at press dos: one at the Cinnamon Club - a fab Indian restaurant - to launch a new warming KY Jelly.
- Mr Burnham, 55, said: ‘I'm a keen go-karter and because of that I get invited to some charity dos.’
- Usually, however, fundraisers become society dos with the ‘need-to-be-seen’ factor eclipsing social causes.
Synonyms party, reception, gathering, celebration, function, affair, event, social event, social occasion, social function, social French soirée West Indian jump-up Jewish simcha North American levee informal bash, blowout, rave, shindig, shindy, shebang, junket British informal rave-up, thrash, knees-up, jolly, beanfeast, bunfight, beano Australian/New Zealand informal shivoo, rage, jollo South African informal jol informal, dated ding-dong 2North American a bowl-shaped do of perfect silky hair short for hairdo Example sentencesExamples - My friends and I were all laughing and braiding each other's hair, twisting our strands into funky 'dos.
- Rather than giving in to the elements, weatherproof your tresses with gorgeous off-the-face dos, like the three low-maintenance styles we've highlighted this month.
- Local stylists offered bouffant 'dos in the shape of mushroom clouds.
- Jill loves African-inspired dos, so she has fun with looks like cornrows and twists and threaded styles.
- The short 'do' really suits you!
- I like your new do, Alex… very nice.
- The women's hair is slicked back into boyish dos.
- These tongs are a great way to twist and bend your way to great new curly dos.
3mass noun Excrement. the air was rancid with the smell of donkey doo figurative they'll be the first to come begging for help when the do hits the fan Example sentencesExamples - Appealingly illustrated by Yelchin, subjects range from flowers about to release their seeds to birds eating berries that will be dropped off in their doo.
- It is no wonder that the team is such a stinking pile of doo.
- Save the Bay—don't let Maryland drown in chicken doo!
- Good thing they learned how to run the ball the last couple of years, or they'd really be in some deep doo.
- It would be funny if many visitors to their properties had dog do on their shoes.
- Will somebody who puts the doo in a plastic bag, then ties it to a tree or leaves it on the side of a path, explain the logic behind that to me?
- The company's in deep financial doo, so can be bought cheap.
- She laughed when she discovered dog doo could be subjected to DNA testing to help stop the flow of canine excrement landing on the condo complex's property.
4archaic A swindle or hoax. 〈英，古，非正式〉诈骗；愚弄
PhrasesBecome successful or wealthy. 变得成功；致富 her friend had done well for herself since she'd moved to London Example sentencesExamples - Willy insisted that because Bernard was not well liked, he would not do well for himself when he grew up.
- It has managed to do well for itself over the years, and today continues to seek new strategic partners.
- The town was founded in 1874, and it did well for itself thanks to a small, oily, bony fish called menhaden.
- To do well for myself, I have to create a product or service that is positive and desirable for others.
- We can't support her - and she will totally screw up a terrific opportunity to do well for herself.
- A bank with access to this market can do well for itself by offering credit at 25 percent.
- Meanwhile, Harper's Bazaar isn't the only fashion magazine that did well for itself in the second half of 2002.
- Such thinking led him to start his own firm, Eugene Meyer and Company, which opened in 1904, and gradually, he began to make his mark on Wall Street and to do well for himself and his associates.
- I wanted to do well for myself and for my parents who did not have the opportunity to attend college.
- But I always say that I will never worry about her survival skills, I know she'll always do well for herself in the long-term.
Make a profit out of; benefit from. 靠…赚钱；得益于 they're doing well out of scrap metal 他们正在靠废金属赚钱。 Example sentencesExamples - Although Edinburgh and Glasgow continue to do well out of tourism, due partly to their good transport links and conference business, rural Scotland has suffered a big decline in the last two or three years.
- Pubs which opened early to serve drinks and breakfast to fans did well out of the World Cup.
- Markets are seen as a very positive step in bringing people in, and I hope the traders and local shopkeepers do well out of it.
- The west Midlands campaign, limited so far to the Birmingham elite and chattering classes, has been partly fuelled by a sense that north Wales is doing well out of devolution.
- Even though we are, by any standards, doing well out of Europe, we have difficulty making the final commitment to the single currency, just as our nerve has failed at every stage in the evolution of post-war Europe.
- Only the promoters, their advisers and the Queensland Government do well out of investment properties in the Deep North.
- They have an almost a-political attitude: providing they are doing well out of the economy they are not much interested in what is happening in politics.
- You only have to look at the recent profit results of resources companies to realise Australia is doing well out of the commodities boom.
- Major financial and commercial centres such as London and Amsterdam also did well out of long-distance trades.
- The only people doing well out of such lawsuits are the lawyers.
1Be connected with (someone or something) to the extent specified. 与（某人，某物）有多大关系 John's got nothing to do with that terrible murder 约翰和那场可怕的谋杀没有任何关系。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps this has something to do with why I failed as an architecture student.
- This could have something to do with why a lot of people don't see any importance in marriage.
- They tried to make a big deal out of it, but the truth is that the governor had nothing to do with that.
- He sees himself as a pioneer in the field he has chosen, which actually has nothing to do with what he did in college.
- The problem has nothing to do with too much tax or too few incentives.
- Players do not like criticism and maybe that had something to do with what happened today.
- She wondered if the long dry hot weather may have something to do with what she was seeing.
- He told a jury at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday he had nothing to do with either the murders or the shooting.
- This has nothing to do with how much faith you have or how you feel.
- I used to be in the Forces for five years and that might have something to do with how calm I was.
- 1.1Have no contact or dealings with.
与…没有联系；与…没有打交道 Billy and his father have had nothing to do with each other for nearly twenty years 比利和他父亲不相往来已有将近20年了。 Example sentencesExamples - If the father wants to have nothing to do with the baby then he may or may not mind the mother having an abortion.
- I suggest you two shake hands and apologize now, or I will have nothing to do with either of you again!
- He can tell me that Jack is just some stupid Junior that I should have nothing to do with.
- It is a sweet tale of a boy in love with a girl whose father will let her have nothing to do with him.
- The funny thing is, he left a pregnant girl in New Zealand and will have nothing to do with the child he fathered.
- And the God who is invoked in justification of these is a God I wish to have nothing to do with.
Synonyms steer clear of, avoid, shun, evade, eschew, shy away from, fight shy of, recoil from, keep away from, keep one's distance from, give a wide berth to, leave alone
Used to express the opinion that a particular thing contravenes custom or propriety. 〈英〉 用于表示说话人认为某事与习俗、舆论或礼节相悖不合适的，不可行的 in such a society it is not done to admit to taking religion seriously 在这样一个社会里承认很重视宗教是行不通的。 Example sentencesExamples - But someone should tell him that it isn't done to talk about one's son as one would about a prized racehorse at a stud farm.
- In France bills are expected to be paid by the due date it is not done to wait for the 'final warning' letter!
- It isn't done to speak ill of the dead.
- When you're pulling in $20 million a movie, it isn't done to ask exactly how long you spent in architecture school!
Used to express the opinion that a particular person's behaviour is unsatisfactory and cannot be allowed to continue. 用来表示说话人不满意某人的行为并认为不应再让其继续下去不行 Can't have that kind of talk—I've told you before, it won't do 不能进行那种谈话——我跟你说过，这是不行的。 Example sentencesExamples - It simply will not do for an elected government to fob people off with clichés and half truths.
- I know that I am still recovering from fatigue, but I can use tiredness as an excuse and that just will not do.
informal Used to indicate that one intends to prevent someone from doing what they were about to do. 〈非正式〉（用于阻止某人的行为）别那样 Sharon went to get in the taxi. ‘Oh no you don't’, said Steve 莎伦走过去要进出租车。“哦，别那样，"史蒂夫说道。 Example sentencesExamples - No you don't lad. Let William and Jack go after them.
- ‘Oh no you don't!’ I shouted, jumping for the door before he could.
informal Used to indicate that one will not tolerate a particular thing any longer. 〈非正式〉 用来表示某人再也不能容忍某事够了！行了！ 够了！我们走吧！ Example sentencesExamples - That does it, I'm going to bed.
- ‘Well, that does it!’ Tyler said. He brushed past Josh and out of the room.
- All right, that does it! I want to know what's behind that door.
- I was already deciding whether to unlock the door or not, but that does it! I'll stay here until it kills me, do you hear?
- That does it! I quit!
informal Used to express dismay or anger when something has gone wrong. 〈非正式〉 用来表示出问题时的沮丧或愤怒完了！ Example sentencesExamples - ‘Uh oh, that's done it,’ he said. ‘We've got to get off this ship ASAP!’
- ‘That's done it!’ said a growl from the crackling intercom system. ‘Our energy transfer unit just had a stroke.’
- Oh hell, that's done it.
1Be no business or concern of. 不关…的事；不用…操心 it's my decision—it's nothing to do with you 这是我的决定——不关你的事。 Example sentencesExamples - I always thought that it was nothing to do with me, that it was to do with other people's opinion.
- It was between the clubs and they couldn't agree a price. It was nothing to do with me so I just ignored it.
- As a businessman himself, he should obviously be able to draw the distinction between running a successful business for commercial gain and getting involved in something that is nothing to do with him.
- We wanted to go with him for counselling but we were told our son was over 18 and it was nothing to do with us.
- This is our concern alone, this is nothing to do with you!
- It was nothing to do with anyone other than his family.
- Striker Andy Gray said: ‘We've got to do the business on the pitch, what goes on off it is nothing to do with us.’
- Every time MPs try to get answers from the Department of Health, we are told it is nothing to do with ministers.
Synonyms be unconnected with, be unrelated to - 1.1Be unconnected with.
与…无关 he says his departure is nothing to do with the resignation calls 他说他的离开和辞职要求无关。 Example sentencesExamples - But I can confirm it was nothing to do with drugs.
- I discovered I had some skills that I didn't realise were saleable - namely writing and speaking - which were nothing to do with my first career as an oil executive.
- The reason it didn't work was nothing to do with how I looked, we just weren't right for each other.
- It was nothing to do with politics and everything to do with evidence.
- It is nothing to do with how fast you run, the power comes from the shoulders.
- I went to the studio, and they asked me the most foolish questions that were nothing to do with animal welfare.
- According to an airport spokesperson, both of these flights were delayed because the planes were late arriving at the airport and were nothing to do with the fact that security guards were on strike at the same time.
- The Government preens itself about how well the economy is going, but that is nothing to do with what it has done.
- The ailments that he had - bronchitis, asthma, malaria - were nothing to do with war service so he had to live on a ten shillings-a-week pension.
- The girl was nothing to do with what was going on, a completely innocent bystander hit by a stray bullet.
Synonyms be unconnected with, be unrelated to avoid, have no dealings with, have no truck with, avoid dealing with, have no contact with, steer clear of, give a wide berth to
Be concerned or connected with. 与…无关 the problems are usually to do with family tension 这些问题通常与家庭关系紧张有关。 Example sentencesExamples - It is a very spiritual activity as it is to do with seasonal change and the passage of time.
- Much of this, he suspects, is to do with the Internet.
- I had a hard time earning the respect of supporters, who thought his transfer was to do with me.
- But this is not a financial matter, it is to do with health.
- Half the complaints received were to do with community care, 44 per cent children and families and the remaining of six per cent within other areas of the department.
- The only thing that made me really unhappy in the period afterwards, where I actually got emotional, was to do with the kids.
- ‘I think a lot of it is to do with the confusion caused by having a General Election on the same day,’ he said.
- ‘This age group is the most likely to be involved in a crash and we believe this is to do with inexperience,’ Mr Farrell said.
- I have seen hair thinning in women who have dieted a lot and I think this is to do with poor vitamin and mineral intake.
- I could tell that part of the silence was to do with how much weight I had lost.
Synonyms relate to, apply to, be relevant to, have relevance to, concern, refer to, have reference to, belong to, pertain to, be pertinent to, bear on, have a bearing on, appertain to, affect, involve, cover, touch
informal Behave in a manner characteristic of (a specified person) 〈非正式〉（在举止行为上）模仿（某人） he did a Garbo after his flop in the play 他表演失败后就模仿嘉宝。 Example sentencesExamples - As I pictured him doing a Travis Bickle through the urine reeking, hashish infested streets of Madrid, I felt like paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the man.
- I am not doing a Germaine Greer or Betty Friedan.
- People will naturally say, ‘Ah, motor racing, money, TV - it's a money-spinning exercise; he's doing a Simon Cowell’.
- I am not doing an Arsene Wenger, but I did not see the incident that led to his first booking.
- So without doing a Walt Whitman, I'm now going to self-refer.
- Anyway, old Neb thought he was the greatest wonder of the world, especially after doing an Alan Titchmarsh on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- Anyway, surely, if he wanted to make it truly dramatic, he should have tried doing a Richard Hannay and hanging off the clock hands.
- He was caught on camera doing a Vinny Jones on St Mirren striker Mark Yardley.
- The leading actors even wore the correct underwear beneath their historically researched costumes - known in the trade as doing a von Stroheim, because Erich von Stroheim insisted on undie realism in 1924 for Greed.
- I thought Knight was doing an Anastacia as this album opened to the rock-tinged tune of her latest single Come As You Are.
informal Do not use the word — to me. 〈非正式〉不要对我说… ‘Don't morning me. Where the hell've you been all night?’ “别跟我说早安，你一晚上到底在哪？” Example sentencesExamples - Don't sorry me, go down and apologize.
- ‘Whatever, Mindy… whatever,’ he muttered. ‘No, don't whatever me! I want to know the truth!’
- ‘Don't hello me,’ I reply, ‘You think that you can slander me in the paper and then act as though everything is ok?’
informal in imperativeGo away. 〈北英格兰，非正式〉走开 look, just do one, will you! 喂，你走开吧！ Example sentencesExamples - Why don't you just do one. You're a waste of time.
- So do me a favour and go do one.
1Persist, even if death is the result. 不成功，毋宁死；决一死战 a grim determination to do or die Example sentencesExamples - This was how to live, on the edge, ready to do or die, with no safety rope to haul you back in.
- When he set off to make the 7000-mile trip alone, Mr Halsey swore he would ‘do or die’.
- Some of these players are not prepared to do or die for York and I need to draft players in who are.
- They are Indian companies with not so much of a global market or mindshare, but with a determination to do or die.
- He seemed determined to do or die on the last day of combat.
- 1.1Used to describe a critical situation where one's actions may result in victory or defeat.
关键时刻 the 72nd hole was do or die 第72洞是个关键。 Example sentencesExamples - This election was do or die for them.
- Yes, it was important, but not a do or die situation, as is portrayed by the president's political rivals.
- You know this is do or die - if you lose, you're done.
- Every game is a must-win situation, creating a do or die atmosphere with each contest.
- For the England fans before the match the game against the Germans was do or die.
- ‘At this point it's basically a do or die situation as we are right on the edge of making play-offs,’ explained Paul.
- His incredible death or glory hundred, in a do or die qualification battle for India at the Sinhalese Sports Club Stadium left the Kiwis rubbing their eyes in sheer disbelief.
- It was literally do or die for the print media and something had to give.
- ‘It's pretty much do or die, and your competitiveness comes out,’ he said.
- ‘Everything for us is do or die,’ she explained.
Phrasal Verbs1Put an end to; remove. 〈非正式〉结束；去除 the desire to do away with racism 废除种族主义的愿望。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps Leeds City Council should do away with pedestrian crossings and rely on the traffic to stop and allow us to cross the road safely.
- Lewis said the merger would cut costs by erasing 6,000 jobs and doing away with overlapping technology and marketing expenses.
- We should learn instead from New Zealand, which did away with virtually all its agricultural subsidies and trade barriers in the mid-1980s.
- If there are scratches, you can use polish cleaner and scratch remover to do away with them.
- The government will this week unveil a plan to abolish red tape for business and consumers, doing away with thousands of petty laws and rules, and streamlining all regulations.
- New packaging technologies could finally do away with the family butcher.
- During his time at the Central Bank he dined in the staff restaurant and did away with the executive dining room.
- It said: ‘The whole purpose of this initiative as we understood it is to save money by doing away with, or at least cutting down on things like order books.’
- It seems they are always looking for things to change or do away with.
- It can take the pressure off Dublin Airport and do away with the necessity for a second terminal at an already overcrowded airport and city.
Synonyms abolish, quash, get rid of, discard, remove, eliminate, discontinue, cancel, stop, end, terminate, put an end to, put a stop to, call a halt to, dispense with, drop, abandon, give up - 1.1Kill.
杀死 he didn't have the courage to do away with her 他没有勇气杀死她。 Example sentencesExamples - Many of the participants were on the ground, searching for other victims to do away with.
- Without further ado the king hires an assassin to do away with him, solving all sorts of problems in one deathly stroke.
- Antonia will do away with Barry, and Rose will return the favor by knocking off Hector.
- If Jade could try to get rid of George, what would stop her from doing away with David?
- He is set to harm the young lady whom you shelter, and do away with all those who hold her in their hearts, be they kith or kin.
- While awaiting trial, many accused murderers do away with themselves by hanging.
Synonyms kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down
Treat or deal with in a specified way. （以特定方式）行动；行事 do as you would be done by 以其人之道还治其人之身。 她对他们很好。 Example sentencesExamples - If he had done badly by her he knows I'd put his teeth halfway down his throat.
- My mother, bless her soul, had done well by me in making me learn to sew at an early age.
- Then he began to have a faint inkling that he was being treated leniently, and to think that they had done kindly by him, in not yielding to his wish.
do someone/something down 1Get the better of someone, typically in an underhand way. 〈英，非正式〉（多指用卑鄙手段）打败；压倒；制服；欺骗 if you're a manager trying to do down a colleague, the best way to do it is to flood them with data Example sentencesExamples - For a while there were rumours of a Labor rat out to do him down.
- ‘He brings great rigour to his arguments and if others cannot do the same they will be done down,’ said one financier.
- He never faced a room full of twenty-first century youngsters who, at best, would rather be at home playing Playstation games and, at worst, were determined to do him down.
- Never one to undervalue his own importance, he was able to face his public humiliation because he knew in his own mind that he had been done down by petty, smallminded people, not a match for his abilities and foresight.
- Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of a Munster championship day?
- Two years ago they did us down in the same stadium and, since then, their star has been rising and rising.
- There is no small irony in the fact that he has been done down by the very forces he sought to win over to New Labour and whom he believed respected him for his authoritarianism and readiness to trample on democratic rights.
- 1.1Criticize someone or something.
批评 they're always moaning and doing British industry down 他们一直在抱怨，把英国工业贬得一无是处。 Example sentencesExamples - We don't want to do our country down, but please don't act as if we've got the problems under control.
- They always had faith in him despite the so-called experts who were only willing to do him down.
- The magazine's got a cheek to revel in London's victory when it always does its very best to do our city down.
- It also comes hot on the heels of allegations filtering back to the Maryhill area that certain other first division managers have been actively doing his side down in the press.
- It's ironic that one of our own should be doing us down again.
Synonyms belittle, disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, depreciate, cast aspersions on, discredit, vilify, defame, decry, criticize, abuse, insult, malign
Defeat, ruin, or kill. 〈非正式〉击败；毁掉；杀死 without that contract we're done for 没有那份合同我们就完了。 it was the cold that did for him in the end 最后他死于感冒。 Example sentencesExamples - Now the blooms are limp, and soaked through, and I fear they are done for.
- The foolish state of excitement into which I allowed myself to get the other day completely did for me, and I have hardly done anything since.
- "Well," Ren said, shifting her weight to the other foot, "when he realized that the ship was done for, he appeared absolutely ecstatic."
- That defeat all but did for their already slim chances of progressing.
- ‘Don't worry, they're done for,’ Sean said, his heartbeat starting to slow to normal pace.
Synonyms ruin, destroy, reduce to nothing, spoil, mar, injure, blight, shatter, scotch, mess up kill, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, finish off
do something (or nothing) for Enhance (or detract from) the appearance or quality of. 〈非正式〉改善（或有损于）外观；改进（或降低）质量 whatever the new forum does for industry, it certainly does something for the Minister 不管这个新论坛对该行业来说怎么样，它肯定是给部长脸上贴金了。 that scarf does nothing for you 那条围巾有损你的形象。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a color that does nothing for you.
- That hairstyle does nothing for you, Kat.
- Why would she choose to wear such a horrendously unflattering dress? It just does nothing for her.
oh my God, she's done him in Example sentencesExamples - Some young men were setting up their instruments, and as another puff of smoke drifted toward Francesca, she hollered, ‘I'm going to go get some air-this smoke is doing me in!’
- Some believe she was done in for planning to marry into a successful Arab merchant family.
- Tuesday Cathy Jamieson was convinced that there's a plot to do her in, after the BBC did an undercover job on the private prison at Kilmarnock.
- How he died, when he died, and whether he was done in by his comrades, fearful of another purge, all remain a mystery to this day.
- Thinking kings rarely prosper: Chaucer's patron Richard II was done in; ditto Charles I, a collector of art more voracious even than Charles Saatchi.
- They are lurking on every street corner, plotting to do us in.
- The amount we consume, what we consume, and how much we consume at one time is doing us in.
- He tried to have some generals arrested, and some formed a conspiracy to do him in.
- Did you come here to see if I was alright or to finish the job of doing me in?
- And most people were convinced that he would be done in.
Synonyms kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down - 1.1Be tired out.
there was 1 minute 4 seconds to play and the Lions were done in 比赛还剩1分零4秒，狮子队已经精疲力竭了。 Example sentencesExamples - Maybe they would have been done in by a running game that produced a measly 2.9 yards per carry.
- I had hoped she would feel like going with us but she was done in by three days of greater than usual activity.
- He says that the 2001 Lions were done in by all the travelling and inadequate rest periods: his meticulous planning will prevent a similar fate this time.
Synonyms wear out, tire out, exhaust, fatigue, weary, overtire, drain, prostrate, enervate, devitalize
I did my back in a few years ago 我几年前伤了背部。 Example sentencesExamples - In March of that year, I did my back in, and for the first time in my life I realised what it meant to be housebound.
- I know my dad hated not working when he did his shoulder in.
- She did her knee in about 3 years ago playing tennis.
- I did my ankle in on the second day and had to go home early.
Synonyms injure, hurt, damage, maim, cripple, disable, paralyse
Deprive someone of (something) in an underhand or unfair way. 〈非正式〉（以不光彩、不公平的手段）剥夺某人（的某物） she was always chasing him about money, as if he was trying to do her out of her share Example sentencesExamples - ‘Because all the other detox models have a full 24-hour-a-day doctor presence, some doctors think we're doing them out of a job,’ Maxwell says.
- Senior officers in MI6 feel deeply threatened by this technology because it effectively does them out of a job.
- The Australian controllers are doing them out of a job.
- You're doing them out of their bread-and-butter here.
- He became convinced that other officers were doing him out of his just rewards: the prize money for capturing enemy ships.
- He also alleged that he had been done out of 60 million shares by one of the bank's three largest shareholders.
- Also, I can't imagine that professional caddies will like them as they could do them out of employment.
- The man would not do you out of a cent and it would certainly not have been his intention to rob anyone.
- They both laughed when I told them how much I had paid for it, saying I had been done out of a gold piece.
- German resellers are the least worried in Europe that large retailers could do them out of business and sales.
Synonyms swindle out of, cheat out of, trick out of, prevent from having, prevent from gaining, deprive of, dispossess of, rob of, strip of, relieve of
Decorate or furnish a room or building in a particular style, colour, or material. 〈英，非正式〉（用特定风格、色彩或材料）装修；布置 the basement is done out in limed oak 地下室是用石灰处理过的橡木装修的。 Example sentencesExamples - The whole place is done out in an Egyptian style.
- It's a steep climb, but worth it: the rooms are done out in an original Indo-Ligurian style and, best of all, both houses share a well-kept terrace garden, sandwiched between the castle and the crashing waves below.
- She was told it was a girl, bought all pink, did the room out in pink and had a boy.
- It's done out in dark wood and the lighting was subdued, with no candles to add a little sparkle.
Synonyms decorate, furnish, adorn, ornament, embellish
Beat someone up. 〈英，非正式〉痛打 let's do them over and dump them somewhere Example sentencesExamples - I've realised with a certain sort of delight that I'm now so old that nobody can earn any sort of reputation from doing me over.
- He suddenly pulled out a gun and confronted Mr Thompson over some men being ‘sent to do him over.’
- ‘We could do you over,’ a shy-looking boy with dark hair added loudly before retreating back into the hood on his jacket.
- Also, I am quite a nice person who would not do you over should you reveal some home truths.
- With some people, if they get cross they make a threat and say they'll punch you or do you over if you do it again.
- Half the time you can't go into the playground because someone will do you over, and if they don't get you in school they get you on the way home.
- ‘She looked like she had been done over by Mike Tyson,’ added Caroline.
Synonyms beat up, assault, attack, mug, batter, thrash, pummel, pound
1Ransack a place, especially while searching for something worth stealing. 〈英，非正式〉（尤指为寻找贵重物品）洗劫 Jacqui's flat had been done over—the evidence was all too clear Example sentencesExamples - When he arrived back from Geneva last Saturday he found his house had been done over.
- Vandals have also done over his shop.
- My house still looks as if it's been done over by a gang of particularly thorough burglars.
2Decorate or furnish a room or building. 〈非正式〉装修；布置 a two-room flat done over by a local designer Example sentencesExamples - He just sticks his head in the door and loudly proclaims ‘I did my kitchen over today as well and it's much better than this.’
- I feel like those people on TV getting their houses done over by expensive designers.
- She did the house over -- completely, with the exception of the room he'd used for a study.
- It was bought about a year ago by an outfit called Country Club Luxury Hotels and has been completely done over.
3Repeat something. 〈非正式〉损伤 to absorb the lesson, I had to do it over and over 为了消化这一课，我不得不一遍遍重复。 Example sentencesExamples - Even simple choices can have huge consequences, and we never get to do things over!
- If you could do it over again right now, what would you have fixed?
- If it doesn't come loose the first time you may have to do it over a few times until you can easily unscrew the old chuck.
- Brown says he's proud of his three-story, three-bedroom home; but if he had to do it over, he'd have budgeted better and saved more money before jumping into buying the house.
- Though Mary Jane made the artist do the face over, the expression did not improve.
- They saw the dailies, and they came back a couple weeks later, and they said, ‘We'd like to do that scene over, and we'd like you to be more passionate.’
- Why do something over and over if the result never changes?
- The best compromise was always just to do it over.
- If you could do it over, what would be your debut album?
- He pried the board free and then, glowering, he did the job over.
Be able to be fastened. 扣上；系上 a shirt so tight that not all of the buttons did up 衬衫紧紧的，不是所有的扣子都可以扣得上。 Example sentencesExamples - I have put on so much weight that my posh dress won't actually do up at the back without making me look like I am a Diana Dors replicant that is carrying triplets
- Some bras on the market now do up at the front.
- I have a whole rack of jeans that for some reason do not do up.
- It is buttoned down the front with five buttons, which also do up the men's way, and which are 10.5 cm apart, centre to centre.
- My jeans won't do up anymore.
Dress someone up, especially in an elaborate or impressive way. （尤指精心地或隆重地）打扮；装饰（某人） Agnes was all done up in a slinky black number 艾格尼丝盛装打扮，着一身黑色衣服，窈窕动人。 Example sentencesExamples - A group of teenage girls got on, all done up in glitter, crop tops and tight jeans.
- She was poked, prodded, and pinned until she was done up in one of the most elaborate gowns she'd ever worn.
- I decided she needed to go out clubbing and did her up in a cute punk style.
- ‘You don't look so bad yourself,’ Heather replied, realizing that Martha was done up.
- Lizzy and Jane were done up nicely if discreetly.
1Fasten something. 〈非正式〉损伤 she drew on her coat and did up the buttons 她穿上外套，扣上扣子。 Example sentencesExamples - One day I walked in and my top button wasn't done up, he gave the class and me an entire lecture about appearance.
- The gist was this: children arriving in primary school are no better than savages - unable to do up buttons, use a knife and fork, sit still or even speak.
- Their top buttons were done up, and stayed that way.
- I took 30 minutes to put on my shirt and do up the buttons and gave up on the tie and shoelaces.
- Carl studied her for a moment and then nodded ‘You need to do up another button on your blouse and here,’ Carl handed her a security ‘visitor’ identification badge.
- She does her coat up and slowly makes for the door then stops.
- He does his coat up.
- Practise doing up buttons and fastening his shoes, but don't worry or pressure him if this proves too difficult.
- Barely able to do up his buttons because of the swelling, he nevertheless ‘managed to get through’ that day's matinee and evening show before being strapped up at hospital.
- It was refreshing to be able to do up clips and buckles and perform tasks without everything becoming mission impossible.
Synonyms fasten, tie, tie up, lace, knot, make a knot in, tie a bow in - 1.1Arrange one's hair in a particular way, especially so as to be pulled back from one's face or shoulders.
梳头 her dark hair was done up in a pony tail 她乌黑的头发扎成一条马尾辫。 Example sentencesExamples - Finally ready she slipped on some simple slippers and did her hair up in a loose braid, opting to skip any head pieces for now.
- I did my hair up in a high ponytail and went out to have some breakfast.
- She had several ropes of long black beads around her neck which she absent-mindedly played with in her hand, and her thin hair was done up in an elaborate style.
- She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face.
- However, we can easily guess his social status from his elaborate coiffure: in the manner of high-ranking men, his hair is done up in a topknot, kept in place by an ornamental hairpin.
- Rosalie looked very relaxed and content and was wearing a blue summer halter dress and her hair was done up in a loose chignon.
- The dress went down midway past her knees, and her hair was done up in a complex braid.
- Betty was all dressed up in pink, and her hair was done up with fake flowers.
- Ashley even did my hair up in a chignon with hair falling to the sides of my face.
- After a day of scrubbing, applying make-up, and sitting still while mother did our hair up, we were ready.
- 1.2Wrap something up.
〈非正式〉损伤 unwieldy packs all done up with string 都是用绳子包扎的笨重包裹。 Example sentencesExamples - She held out a brightly wrapped package done up with gold ribbon and a sparkling golden bow.
- The shopkeeper did up the parcel, handed it me across the counter, took the half-dollar coin I gave him, and I left the shop.
- She arrived one snowy day with a shapeless parcel done up in tissue-paper.
2Renovate or redecorate a room or building. 〈非正式〉装修；布置 Mrs Hamilton did the place up for letting 汉密尔顿夫人为了出租将这个地方重新装修了一番。 Example sentencesExamples - For the past fortnight, some builders have been doing up the flat next door.
- We were now living in a house that was a building site, with no money to do it up.
- People here are also spending more than most other parts of the country on doing up their homes.
- Greenwood has bought a small village house that needs doing up.
- I put more than £20,000 of my own capital into buying and doing up a place in Fulham, but I sold it too soon to recoup the outlay, just a year later.
- ‘We have put so much into doing up this place,’ said Paula, a health visitor.
- After spending a lot of money doing up our house, we decided to remortgage.
- There has been an explosion of local landscaping and building contractors who are making a very good living from doing up these estates.
- Tony did building work on houses his father had bought and was doing up to sell on, but he also worked for other construction companies.
- They claim to have spent about £115,000 doing up the flat.
Synonyms renovate, refurbish, refit, restore, redecorate, decorate, revamp, make over, modernize, improve, spruce up, smarten up, brighten up, prettify, enhance
1with modalWould find useful or would like to have or do. 认为…有用；想要；想做 I could do with a cup of coffee 我想喝杯咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples - Kingsley was a tall, dark, wiry man with messy grey hair that looked as if it could do with a wash.
- Though I could possibly have done with it being in Mayfair, I may have been all of about two minutes less late.
- Much of our architecture could do with a splash of luxury.
- I could do with a break before the exams begin in late May.
- I could have really done with a team of flying reindeer and a sleigh tonight, to shift me from London to Glasgow.
- 1.1British Be unwilling to tolerate or be bothered with.
〈英〉不愿忍受；对…感到烦心 she couldn't be doing with meals for one 她讨厌独自一人吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples - I can't be doing with all these patches and strips of neatly cut grass.
- I can't be doing with all that pomp and ceremony.
- He often records versions of traditional tunes on his records, but can't be doing with the stuffiness some folksters exude.
- No, I can't be doing with these sudden blasts of heat.
- I can't be doing with all that faffing about in the kitchen.
- I just think that's so desperately boring and I can't be doing with that.
- And I couldn't be doing with all that hierarchy, ‘Yes, Chef’, ‘No, Chef’.
- I can't be doing with thinking about Christmas yet.
- And I can't be doing with trying to achieve the wow factor on a budget.
- I can't be doing with all the big parties and all that rubbish.
1with modalManage without. 没有…也行；将就 she could do without food for a day 她可以一天不吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples - A crucifying mortgage bill can be avoided if you decide to wait and do without your dream home for a few years.
- Space has to be found for everything, even if it means the principal does without an office, a desk or even a seat.
- This story goes a little further because the couple says that they actually enjoy their sacrifices, speaking as though saving money and doing without things like a DVD player and cell phone are part of an enjoyable game.
- She had tried, unsuccessfully, to give up the habit on several occasions; the best she had achieved was doing without cigarettes for a couple of weeks at a time.
- What is the one organic food or drink product you can't do without?
- Twenty-one percent did without food to try to pay their bills.
- I explained that doing without food was the key element here.
- Try doing without cigs, booze and satellite TV, then the children would have fresh veg, meat and warm clothing for winter.
- She does without herbicides as well, preferring to weed by hand.
- The rest of the crew had set off from San Francisco around the same time as us but were manfully doing without sleep and so were around 10 hours ahead of us.
Synonyms forgo, dispense with, abstain from, refrain from, eschew, give up, renounce, forswear, swear off, keep off, keep away from, manage without - 1.1informal Would prefer not to have.
〈非正式〉宁愿没有 I can do without your carping first thing in the morning 我可不愿一大早就让你找茬。 Example sentencesExamples - I could do without the occasional looks of pity I've had from them.
- I had become so unreliable, unpredictable and frankly, an embarrassment they could do without.
- Although from my point of view as a manager, this is something I could do without, full stop.
- Determined to make a go of their new life, they decide that women are a distraction they can do without and swear off them for three years.
- I'm sure he can do without the extra humiliation.
OriginOld English dōn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doen and German tun, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tithēmi 'I place' and Latin facere 'make, do'. doom from Old English: The ancient root of doom meant ‘to put in place’ and is also the root of do (Old English). By the time that written English records began the emphasis had narrowed to putting law and order in place: the Old English senses of doom include ‘a law, statute’, ‘a judicial decision’, and ‘the right to judge’. In the context of the end of the world, the word ‘judgement’ was not used until the 16th century—before that the usual term for Judgement Day was doomsday (source of the name the Domesday Book for the survey of the land ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 for tax purposes, because it was the final authority on such things). In the Middle Ages this was also shortened to doom, a use that survives only in the crack of doom. ‘ We're doomed!’ was the catchphrase of the gloomy Scottish undertaker Frazer, played by John Laurie, in the BBC TV comedy Dad's Army (1968–77). The 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow popularized gloom and doom, which became a catchphrase when it was made into a film in 1968. The idea seemed appropriate to a world threatened by nuclear war.
Rhymesaccrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo nounPlural dos, Plural do'sdəʊdoʊ verbdo͞odu 1with object Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified) 做，干（其行动的具体性质往往不明确） something must be done about the city's traffic 必须就城市交通采取一定措施。 she knew what she was doing 她知道自己在做什么。 我可以为你做些什么？ Brian was looking at the girl, and had been doing so for most of the hearing 布赖恩一直在和那个姑娘眉目传情，而且在听证会大部分时间里都这样。 Example sentencesExamples - They replace trust and discussion and flexibility with things that must be done.
- When the riot squad did move, it was so fast and so precise nothing could be done.
- Something must be done to halt the alarming decline in television audiences on whom it depends for its lifeblood.
- Something must be done to put a stop to the all too frequent bouts of trouble which occur at the nightclub.
- There was nothing he could do anyway at the moment.
- Ms Doyle said everything must be done to ensure that this disease does not occur again.
- Sometimes it seems that there is just not enough time to do everything that must be done.
- Are there things you are doing which could be handed over to someone else?
- Of course he is, this kid went to Yale, the reward for kids who do everything right.
- More must be done to prevent moorland in the North West being destroyed by fire, according to a new report.
- And it's me doing the reading, which makes me feel like I must have done something right.
- But Jeremy feels more must be done to find permanent homes for the homeless community.
- I really didn't know what I was doing.
- But she was also the kid who never did anything exceptionally right.
- Or is it that the insurance companies are ripping us off - something must be done about this.
- In this, your time of crisis, what can we Americans do to help?
- After doing so much for this wonderful city, why did you have to suddenly go away?
- If Amy wasn't with us we'd have probably done something but she was our excuse for not doing so.
- She told him more must be done and he admitted there was a problem.
- I do accept that it cannot be done overnight, but I do think it must be done.
Synonyms carry out, undertake, discharge, execute, perpetrate, perform, accomplish, implement, achieve, complete, finish, conclude - 1.1 Perform (a particular task)
执行，履行（特定任务） Dad always did the cooking on Sundays 老爸总是在星期天洗衣服。 Example sentencesExamples - Also, no matter how much I dislike doing the garden work, it is quite satisfying to see the end results.
- There's loads of washing up to be done, general tidying around the house, and a whole bunch of shopping to get in.
- Starting by doing menial tasks teaches people respect for others and also earns their respect.
- This means they've usually done all the hoovering before you get round to wanting to do it.
- Also I've been doing some re-writes to bring the show up to date, so that complicated the issue further.
- She'd do her shopping early in the morning so as not to talk to people.
- She says that more and more, charities end up doing the tasks the state is supposed to look after.
- We keep in touch with what our customers want by doing two shifts on the shop floor every week and I am the manager for that time.
- It was really strange, because one moment she was just cooking and doing the chores at home, and the next moment she was on telly.
- Will Vivian make me do evil, horrible chores?
- Until the clothes are on the models and all the hair and make-up is done, you're never going to see the whole picture.
- The man is extremely capable and cooks, cleans and does all his own washing and ironing.
- In the past few weeks he has done tasks around the home, such as turning lights on and off and unloading the washing machine.
- This helps them develop a sense of responsibility and a habit for doing these tasks.
- I am currently doing a page by page check of changes and will bring them to your attention in the coming weeks.
- I spent this afternoon doing Christmas Shopping.
- After each task, the teams swapped over their mode of transport and did the tasks all over again.
- His mother had been a miserly woman and had not done a single charitable deed in her lifetime.
- Teachers are routinely doing tasks that were previously carried out by support staff.
- When doing a manual task you really cannot avoid, use a tool with a smaller grip.
- 1.2 Work on (something) to bring it to completion or to a required state.
完成；做好 it takes them longer to do their hair than me 他们做头发要比我花更长的时间。 she's the secretary and does the publicity 她是秘书，要完成宣传任务。 Example sentencesExamples - I had my hair and make-up done by professionals, was taught how to walk on a catwalk and got to model three outfits.
- When she left school, she did the accounts for a fruit shop.
- During the dry weather the track to the mine was passable but work had to be done on it to carry heavy traffic.
- He added the review had taken around two years and was done through numerous public consultations.
- Go get an estimate to have it done by someone else and tell her how much she would have to pay.
- The chap who does the garden said he wanted to hear some of my music.
- Nowadays the sales analysis is all done by computer, and is therefore totally reliable.
- Some of the ground has already been done so work on the project should start soon.
- I'm going to get my hair done a bit more often and go for facials and pamper myself a bit more.
- I don't like people touching my hair, doing my make-up or telling me what to wear.
Synonyms prepare, make, get ready, fix, produce, see to, arrange, organize, be responsible for, be in charge of, look after, take on style, arrange, adjust, groom, preen, primp, prink - 1.3 Make or have available and provide.
供给；提供 many hotels don't do single rooms at all 很多旅馆根本不提供单人间。 with two objects he decided to do her a favor 他给小酒馆供应食品。 Example sentencesExamples - I have another chef on my yacht who does different food - fish, salads and raw vegetables.
- We are now doing a three-course Sunday lunch for £9.95.
- They are doing a Season Ticket: £40
- The bar does meals, which looked filling, and the view over the bay is great!
- The lamb was pleasant enough if not amazing (I think I've been spoiled by the Turkish place on Gillygate, which surely does the best lamb in town), and the vegetables were nicely done.
- Does anyone know of a central Manhattan hotel which does family rooms?
- 1.4 Solve; work out.
解答；算出 乔在做口算题。 Example sentencesExamples - Inspector Morse - Gruffly drinks beer and does crosswords in Oxford
- They would watch videos, read books and do puzzles.
- After doing some hard financial sums, I left the day job to chase a few dreams.
- Again, multiply the two together and you'll see how the sums have been done.
- It may be that you'll need to reassess your choices once you've done some more detailed sums.
- I find doing crosswords strangely relaxing.
Synonyms work out, figure out, calculate, add up - 1.5 Cook (food) to completion or to a specified degree.
烧好（食物） if a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, then your pie is done 如果把刀插到中间后拔出来是干净的，饼就算做好了。 Example sentencesExamples - When those are both done, add the pasta to the bacon, and mix for a bit, then add the cream until it's all warm.
- When the burger and onions are almost done, toast the bread on the grill or in a toaster.
- On the Indian side of the menu, we recommend lamb, which is always done to perfection.
- She handed him a towel and the phone, and then left to make sure her food was doing okay.
- When the cake is done let it cool completely in the cake tin before turning it out onto a plate or cooling rack.
- 1.6 (often in questions) work at for a living.
常用于问句从事（谋生的职业） 她做什么工作？ Example sentencesExamples - Do you remember when I told you what my parents did for a living?
- After a day or two, she discovered what I did for a living and began making local specialities, dishes not on the menu.
- What exactly is it that you do?
- But talking about this kind of thing is what I do for a living.
- I'm still unsure as to what I should be doing for a job - all I know is that it involves creativity.
- I keep asking him what he is going to do when he leaves school and he just keeps saying that all he wants to do is play football.
- My sis will soon find out what I've really been doing for the past 3 years here.
- What he does for a living is intensely private and frustratingly protracted.
- What does your dad do for a living?
Synonyms do for a living, work at, be employed as, earn a living as, earn a living at - 1.7 Produce or give a performance of (a particular play, opera, etc.)
编排；表演（戏剧、歌剧等） the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing Macbeth next month 皇家莎士比亚公司下个月要上演《麦克白》。 Example sentencesExamples - As most of you know, our school has traditionally done Shakespeare passages for our Recitations.
- Says Grandmaître, ‘At the first run-through, they were dancing like we were doing Swan Lake in New York.’
- I am working in Norfolk doing a Christmas Spectacular - but I will have to look at a map before I set off.
- About six months later I did Spice World with them and they all taught me their moves from the video.
- As for serious theatre, it is impossible to be more serious than doing a David Hare play, as Les did, appearing in Skylight in Newbury, or touring Helsinki in the Finnish play Cherished Disappointments In Love with Janet Suzman.
- Luckily I got over it when I was doing Side Man in London.
- When I was doing Sunset Boulevard in London, Jon Pertwee came to see the show.
- I thought it was a really compelling one and probably for the same reason I like doing Shakespeare plays.
- What really means a lot to me is how encouraged I've been by the Brits, in terms of doing Shakespeare.
- This is going to be another whole new experience for me because I've never done Peter Pan before.
- At present we are doing a modern Russian play and another straight from New York.
Synonyms put on, present, produce, give - 1.8informal Perform (a particular role, song, etc.) or imitate (a particular person) in order to entertain people.
扮演（角色）；演唱（歌曲）；模仿（某人） he not only does Schwarzenegger and Groucho, he becomes them 他不仅仅是扮演施瓦茨尼格尔和格劳乔，他已经变成他们。 Example sentencesExamples - He does a great Elvis and my guests just loved him.
- Well, Jamie Foxx does an incredible performance doing Ray Charles in the movie ‘Ray’ from Universal Pictures.
- If you ask me, he does Rolf Harris better than Rolf Harris does himself!
- We'd just discarded the possibility of me doing a Lara Croft convincingly.
- No one can do the Queen like you! I have found myself enthralled watching your portrayal of her.
- 1.9informal Take (a narcotic drug)
〈非正式〉吸（毒） he doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs 他不抽烟、不喝酒，也不吸毒。 Example sentencesExamples - In the months previously, he had claimed he was doing up to 100 bags of heroin a day.
- I have never smoked, don't drink, and have never done drugs.
- See if anyone else is having doubts that all the drugs they've done really were spiritual.
- I've done enough drugs over the years to know what it's like.
- She would be there doing heroin and I started off by just having a line on the foil.
- She's admitted that she does cocaine.
- 1.10 Attend to (someone)
护理；照顾（某人） the barber said he'd do me next 理发师说他下一个就为我服务。 Example sentencesExamples - A guy came in to get his lip pierced and Robbie asked if he could do him first and I told him it was no problem.
- He said he could do me after he finished the one he was doing, but I said no thanks. Ill wait until tomorrow.
- If your employees do not do another customer in between, the time would be booked as 120 minutes or two hours straight time.
- 1.11vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse with.
〈粗俚〉同…性交 - 1.12do itinformal Have sexual intercourse.
〈粗俚〉同…性交 Example sentencesExamples - I like to do it in the morning.
- I hit 16, went to college and one of the guys in my class said that he reckoned I was great in the sack and asked me to 'do it' with him behind the bike sheds.
- 1.13do itinformal Urinate or defecate.
〈非正式〉小便；大便
2with object Achieve or complete. 实现；完成，尤指 - 2.1 Travel (a specified distance)
行过；走过（一定距离） one car I looked at had done 112,000 miles 我看的一辆车已经行驶了112，000英里。 Example sentencesExamples - By now it is believed to have done the highest mileage of any comparable plane still in service.
- The car does about 35-40 miles to the gallon.
- I rode 5 miles yesterday, and did 12 miles today, and already feel better mentally and physically than I have in a few years.
Synonyms travel, journey, go, cover, travel over, pass over, journey over, traverse, cross, range over, put behind one, get under one's belt, attain, achieve, log - 2.2 Travel at (a specified speed)
行过；走过（一定距离） I was speeding, doing seventy-five 我在加速，开到了75。 Example sentencesExamples - A number of bikers were also reported for speeding with one clocked doing 96 mph.
- Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds.
- As he sped across the highway out of the city, he couldn't help notice that someone was doing exactly the same speed behind him.
- Furthermore what if you were told that had they been doing the speed limit, they could have survived?
- It is tacky and I don't like not being able to see what speed you are doing.
- The speed a car is doing is only one element which affects the safety of road users.
- He maintains he was doing the speed limit and had no time to react.
- We were doing exactly the same speeds and it was a really nice and clean fight.
Synonyms drive at, travel at, go at, proceed at, move at - 2.3 Make (a particular journey)
旅行 last time I did New York–Philadelphia round trip by train it was over 80 bucks Example sentencesExamples - In the seven years I've been doing that journey, I'm thinking that takes my total to five.
- The journey has been done once before, by a Frenchman in 132 days just under ten years ago.
- I had complete confidence in the pilot, he does the journey back and forth so many times a day he could probably do it blindfold.
- I did London to Paris for charity last year.
- If they get their journey done quickly it frees up the taxi for other users.
- 2.4 Achieve (a specified sales figure)
（以一定速度）行驶；行进 our bestselling album did about a million worldwide 我们最畅销的唱片在全球销量达到了100万左右。 Example sentencesExamples - Her last album only did 130,000 in the first week.
- The second book did a fraction of the first book's sales.
- Mark my words, look in six months and no one will have any remembrance that it 'only' did one million copies in its first month.
- 2.5informal Visit as a tourist, especially in a superficial or hurried way.
〈非正式〉游览；观光（尤指走马观花或匆忙地旅行） the tourists are allotted only a day to “do” Verona Example sentencesExamples - If you are in New York, you really have to do the Empire State Building!
- Dave is doing Europe over the next couple of months.
- We did the Eiffel Tower on Friday because we figured the queues would be shorter than on Saturday or Sunday.
- In 1996 we did London, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam.
- The area can be very crowded with surfers and tourists doing Land's End.
Synonyms visit, tour, sightsee in, look around, look round, take in the sights of - 2.6 Spend (a specified period of time) in prison or in a particular occupation.
（尤指在监狱或某行业）度过（一段时间） he did five years for manslaughter 他因为杀人被关了五年。 Example sentencesExamples - I ended up back in prison doing fifteen months for handling stolen goods.
- He had done five years for housebreaking.
- He did 25 years in the Air Force.
- She did 10 years for aggravated murder in Hawaii before her sentence was overturned.
- 2.7informal no object Finish.
〈非正式〉完成，结束 you must sit there and wait till I'm done 你必须坐在那儿等我做完。 with present participle we're done arguing Example sentencesExamples - Kaitlyn and I will just go upstairs and talk to Sam until you guys are done down here.
- Once Varla was done she pulled out some cream and told Amy to apply it to her face.
- In the middle of the course, I'm done with science and make a small bid for freedom.
- Well, if you guys are done over there, we're going to get to some more ‘showbiz shorts.’
- Are you done with your Christmas shopping?
- It is finished, all done, and not able to be processed because of funding issues at this point of time.
- She is up packing our stuff right now and she should be done within five minutes or so.
- I was done tidying up the house at around 12:30 pm and went down to my apartment and ate lunch.
- He says a cable guy buddy of his just got done with a job and is going to come over and help him.
Synonyms finished, ended, concluded, terminated, complete, completed, finalized, accomplished, achieved, realized, fulfilled, perfected, consummated, discharged, settled, executed - 2.8be done Be over.
the special formula continues to beautify your tan when the day is done 即使白天已经过去了，这种特别配方也会继续使你黝黑的皮肤变漂亮。 Example sentencesExamples - The working week is done and we're more than up for cocktail fun.
- These people should get some sort of satisfaction when the day is done.
- This is the signal that the night is done, and that the sun is coming up.
- 2.9be/have done withBritish Give up concern for; have finished with.
不再操心；完成，结束 I would sell the place and have done with it 我应该把这个地方卖掉，不再为它烦心。 Steve was not done with her Example sentencesExamples - Once a visitor is done with all the mystic tourism Marlborough is close to hand for a bit of shopping or lunch.
- When they were done with that they moved to the couch and she leaned against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her and they sat in silence for a while.
- Hunter covered his head and waited until the swishing sounds were done with.
- Once we were done with that, we made a dash to the speeders.
- All of the after school sports were done with for the day, and most of the teachers had gone home to prepare for the next day of classes.
- After all the travelling is done with for a while and Frost is settled back at home, he plans to revive a sleeping dragon.
- We need some new scandal and controversy now that that one is done with (until next year).
- Can you honestly say that, once the back-slapping and drinks all round were done with, you would be completely overjoyed on his behalf?
- Once she was done with that she went to her grand piano and started to play it.
- When they were done with all that they lotioned up, and put on a pore minimizing mask and went to bed.
- I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying goodbye stuff.
- Later on that day, when classes were done with, Trent headed back to his room.
- He felt like crying, then, though he had promised himself that he was done with that.
- All the pomp and ceremony being done with, Lyon kick off from right to left in their dark blue.
- Now that my only wedding of the summer is done with, I'm wondering how to get myself on the guest list.
- When the teacher was done with that, she pulled out a pad of paper and looked once more out into the class.
- We weren't allowed to talk during lunch, until we were done with the meal and out in the schoolyard.
- When we were done with that, she had us all sit down at a desk.
- She stopped, stood up, presumed that she was done with and strode out of the room.
- The crowd was breaking apart now that the formal ceremonies were done with.
Synonyms be finished with, have finished with, have done with, be through with, want no more to do with, have no further dealings with, turn one's back on, be no longer involved in, be no longer involved with, end relations with, give up, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with be finished with, have finished with, be done with, be through with, want no more to do with, have no further dealings with, turn one's back on, be no longer involved in, be no longer involved with, end relations with, give up, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with be finished with, have finished with, be done with, be through with, want no more to do with, be no longer involved in, be no longer involved with, have given up, have no further dealings with, have turned one's back on, have washed one's hands of, have no more truck with
3no object, with adverbial Act or behave in a specified way. （以特定方式）行动；行事 they are free to do as they please 他们可以随意行事。 you did well to bring her back 你把她带回来，这样做很好。 Example sentencesExamples - He is used to doing as he pleases and takes notice of nobody.
- Assessment of burn area tends to be done badly, even by those who are expert at it.
- They just go through life doing exactly as they please, expecting no retribution for their behaviour.
- He has done well to distance himself from the talk but this brawl will surely add more fuel to the fire.
- He said his client admitted he had done wrong and would behave differently if he had his time again.
- Had he chosen to remain a private citizen he could have done as he pleased.
- It's cold and wet out there so I think all are just as happy to be here and doing as we please.
- After seeing the injury, Brewster insisted that the police were called and accepted he had done wrong.
- Instead of the client telling the architect what to do, he was increasingly doing as he pleased.
- Ever since Wapping they have bullied, done just as they pleased and ignored the union.
- He did well to finish on the predominantly flat fast course to finish in the top 70.
Synonyms act, behave, conduct oneself, acquit oneself - 3.1 Make progress or perform in a specified way; get on.
进行；进展 when a team is doing badly, it's not easy for a new player to settle in 当一个团队进展不利时，新成员很难融入。 Mrs. Walters, how're you doing? 沃尔特斯夫人，你最近怎么样？ Example sentencesExamples - My husband, Charlie, is chuffed about it and he is pleased that I am doing well.
- This is not a dramatic slashing of jobs because the company is doing badly.
- Chairman of Hampshire Police Federation Keith Ward said he was pleased that Hampshire was doing well.
- I got a couple more on my retakes, and to be honest it never really bothered me that I'd done so badly.
- It happens irrespective of how well or badly the economy is doing.
- I work on the basis that, if you are right eight or nine times out of ten, you are not doing too badly.
- But one trend is clear: smaller retailers are suffering while the big boys are doing fine.
- It will obviously all hinge on how well we are doing as the game progresses.
- He has just been doing his A levels and he thinks he has done really badly.
- He's done tremendously well in the last two games and you can't get any harder than the opposition he's faced.
- A representative checks every three or four days to make sure the work is being done properly.
- I couldn't tell how well or badly I was doing since it was like taking part in a game without knowing the rules.
- In that case we've done pretty well, finishing in mid-table in a very competitive top flight.
- Even if one were free of need and doing well in all other respects, one would still view life as not worth living without friends.
- None of those things is conducive to doing well out on the tennis court.
- This time I was sure I had done well and was pleased with my performance but I lost.
- I have to make the most of this good spell of form, and am pleased that we are doing well in Europe.
- I convinced myself I'd done incredibly badly, snapped at everyone in sight and was no fun at all.
- If she asks any of you how you think we've done, please give us a glowing report and a gold star.
- We needed to win in the one-day series after doing badly in the Tests.
Synonyms get on, get along, progress, fare, make out, get by, manage, cope, survive - 3.2with object and complement Have a specified effect on.
（以一定速度）行驶；行进 散步对我会有好处。 Example sentencesExamples - However in those days we didn't think we might be doing ourselves serious harm.
- He could fall and really do himself damage.
- This report has done me untold damage.
- They'll do themselves harm one way or another.
- It will do you good to have some fresh air.
- The others have petered off and seeing us climb a few places does everyone the world of good.
- 3.3with object Result in.
导致；产生，带来…结果 the years of stagnation did a lot of harm to the younger generation 多年的萧条给年轻一代带来很多坏处。 Example sentencesExamples - The rapid expansion in 90-92, combined with the recession, did a lot of harm financially, and the company finally went bankrupt.
- There's a lot of things that have to be put right because the recession did a lot of damage.
- The original radio series gave many well know comedians their first chance at performing to the public so it did some good.
- This storm obviously did quite a bit of damage to area homes, businesses and vehicles.
4no object Be suitable or acceptable. 合适的；可接受的 if he's anything like you, he'll do 如果他像你那样就可以了。 with object a couple of bucks'll do me the old version will do for now Example sentencesExamples - About this time I realized I was still in a long dress and striped shirt, which won't do for the party.
- It's not what I would have hoped for, but it'll have to do.
- ‘This sweater will do me fine,’ I answered, and I shut the door behind me
- I'm looking for someone to blame my feelings on and you'll do.
Synonyms suffice, be adequate, be satisfactory, be acceptable, be good enough, be of use, fill the bill, fit the bill, answer the purpose, serve the purpose, meet one's needs, pass muster 5informal with object Beat up or kill. 〈非正式〉痛打；杀死 he was the guy who did Maranzano Example sentencesExamples - I'll do him with an iron bar.
- Do you think he did kill himself or was he done in by someone else?
- I'll do you one of these nights!
- 5.1usually be done Ruin.
once you falter, you're done 一旦你站不稳，你就完了。 Example sentencesExamples - I do my warm-up set, then add a little bit more weight and I'm completely done after about 4 reps.
- He did not enter the majors until he was 28 and he was done by the time he was 37.
- My body said, ‘Okay, you're done,’ and I just fell apart.
- 5.2 Rob (a place)
打劫（某处） this would be an easy place to do and there was plenty of money lying around 这个地方很好抢，钱多得到处都是。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't know who, or what organisation, if any, did the bank.
- 5.3British Swindle.
诈骗 in business you had to do your competitors before they did you Example sentencesExamples - Oh - and if you ever bought this spam filter to get rid of the nasties on your computer, you were apparently done.
- It was only after travelling to Amsterdam and meeting the fraudsters that she became suspicious and contacted police, who told her: ‘Sorry, but you've been done.’
- The more I think about it, the more I think I've been done.
- How could some of Australia's biggest and shrewdest media outlets get done so badly.
6usually be/get done forBritish informal with object Prosecute or convict. we got done for conspiracy to commit murder 我们因为有故意造成严重伤害的嫌疑而被起诉。 Example sentencesExamples - I knew I had been done - the blinding flash of the fixed speed camera in Higher Wheelton gave it away.
- I am sure I wasn't alone in being appalled by the performance of the rally drivers done for speeding this week.
- I've been done for drink-driving before.
- Today, we're finding out what life is like for a sportsperson after getting done for drugs.
- All this fun resulted in Donovan becoming the first pop star to be done for marijuana possession.
auxiliary verbdo͞odu 1Used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will) in questions and negative statements. 构成疑问句或否定句，用于动词前（除be，can，may，ought，shall，will外） 你养宠物吗？ 他看到我了吗？ 我不抽烟。 这没关系。 Example sentencesExamples - Mum got back from holiday and said the house was so clean it didn't feel lived in.
- But he does not accept that his decision will imperil the organisation's survival.
- He does not accept that industrialised farming is to blame for the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
- The usual speed limits apply, but I did not see one speed camera in all of the miles I covered.
- Three or four students have to share a textbook as the government does not provide enough books.
- I tried once before to recommend this to you, but did you get yourself a copy?
- Were you told about the press release before it happened, or did you discover it after it had been sent out?
- This Government, frightened of being seen as soft on the drugs trade, does not know what to do.
- So does the company have what it takes to expand this market share, and can it afford it?
- Has anyone tried this sort of thing and if so, what kind of results did you achieve?
- We thought we saw parakeets on a tree in the distance, but we didn't investigate this time.
- That evening a dance was held which did not finish until the early hours of the morning.
- What does Shakespeare create in the play which makes it so timely for our present?
- Despite being the most dangerous road in the country, the A537 does not have a speed camera on it.
- Tests today revealed that the teenager did not die of drug abuse.
- This man noted in his diary that he did not usually lose his temper with servants.
- Unlike other Irish travel firms the company does not offer bookings direct from its website.
- The pain is usually felt on both sides may come on suddenly or gradually, and does not usually occur every day.
- When they began to cook, did the first human beings incinerate or cremate themselves?
- If players did not argue with the referee so much the amount of yellow and red cards would be cut drastically!
- 1.1 Used to make tag questions.
构成附加疑问句 you write poetry, don't you? 你写诗，是吗？ I never seem to say the right thing, do I? 我好像从来没有说对过，是吗？ Example sentencesExamples - You do like champagne, don't you, Charles?
- You do understand, don't you?
- He did some outrageous things, didn't he?
- I look all right, don't I?
- She does go on, doesn't she?
- 1.2 Used in negative commands.
构成否定祈使句 别犯傻。 不要忘记了。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Don't say that,’ I spat, ‘What do you know of it? Nothing!’
- Don't forget you have to earn money before you can spend it.
- You two kids have fun, and don't stay out too late.
2Used to refer to a verb already mentioned. 代替动词 he looks better than he did before 他看起来比以前好些。 you wanted to enjoy yourself, and you did 你想自得其乐，而且做到了。 as the cops get smarter, so do the crooks 他们变得更聪明了，骗子也是。 Example sentencesExamples - You're a much weaker person than you used to be, but you still act like you did when everyone looked up to you.
- Liz doesn't seem to have a blog, but Crystal Evans does, and of course so does the Homeless Guy.
- It actually costs more to manage a team of volunteers than it does to manage a team of paid staff.
- He has briefed me fully on the background which led him to make the statement he did.
- While many of our own have forgotten the importance of honouring our country, she did not.
- Yes, it does seem impossible that my cat could sleep more than he already does, but it is true.
- Looks like he's going to be spending even more time on the bench than he does already.
- She said it was typical of her husband to act as he did when he swam out to reach the boys.
- Nothing like this could ever happen and yet it does and you will not forget.
- But I concede that a minority of young people behave worse than they did in my own youth.
- His conduct invited the police to draw the conclusions which they did and to act as they did.
- On this occasion, the Warsaw native's quotes offered no clue to exactly why he chose to act the way he did.
- This is going to affect myself and other residents even more than it does already.
- Those who did not sign it were beaten until they did or officers simply forged their signature.
- Graham Lee's mount has been in good form lately and looks more at home over hurdles than he did over fences.
- Comments like this makes your child feel even worse than she does already for failing at something.
- Apparently you are not to expect a man to act how he did when you were simply dating.
- I didn't get up until late today but I feel more tired now than I did when I went to bed last night.
- How can we expect change if the law says hitting children is acceptable, which it does now?
- I accept, as Cleanthes did, that the argument does not by itself lead to that conclusion.
3Used to give emphasis to a positive verb. 用于加强语气 我确实想对此采取行动。 他看起来确实累了。 Example sentencesExamples - If he does give evidence the question will depend on whether his evidence is believed.
- Where the commandment does fall down is its lack of relevance to tenement life.
- However the parents do live in a rather affluent area outside of San Diego.
- The film has a positive message because Bella does find friendship and love.
- In this case, the answers to the first two of these questions really does appear to be no.
- Which does rather raise the question of why the government didn't think of it two days ago.
- However, it does pose the age-old question of whether or not money can buy you happiness.
- That more or less answers that question, but it does open up another can of worms.
- It does beg the question of why they should go to all that effort though.
- However, the controversy does raise important questions over the use of technology in sport.
- In that statement she does indeed make the statement which is attributed to her.
- He did seem very tired in the bath though so I think we might need to work on his stamina.
- I think there is a lot of truth in that statement even if it does paint an unflattering portrait.
- For one thing, many Democrats seem to have forgotten that they did win the election last time.
- It's a chilling and bizarre image, but it does answer the questions better than any other theory.
- While not directly overlooked, the garden does look onto the side of another house.
- But this still does beg a question as to what is in all this for the manufacturer.
- Oh well, the tutor did mention she was interested in the reactions we would get.
- In the final act, the film does deliver a few surprises, but by that point it's far too late.
- The Guardian does mention important and controversial issues, but only in passing.
- 3.1 Used in positive commands to give polite encouragement.
用于加强礼貌的祈使语气 一定要告诉我！ 请坐下来。 Example sentencesExamples - If you're in the Valley at that time, please do come to the event, it should be great.
- Do sit down and make yourself comfortable.
- ‘Do tell me all about your visit,’ she continued.
4Used with inversion of a subject and verb when an adverbial phrase begins a clause for emphasis. 用于倒装句 only rarely did they succumb 他们难得屈服。 not only did the play close, the theater closed 不仅表演结束了，剧院也关门了。 Example sentencesExamples - He first searches to find where Josh is up to and only then does he begin to teach.
- Rarely does a new Ring cycle begin with such confidence and lucidity, on stage and in the pit.
- Not alone did he encourage others to get involved but he is now the club's secretary.
- Only at the turn of this year did he begin to secure headlines with his mouth shut.
- She doesn't ask me anything, nor does she refer to The Incident With The Dolls.
noundo͞odu informal 1North American short for hairdo Example sentencesExamples - Local stylists offered bouffant 'dos in the shape of mushroom clouds.
- I like your new do, Alex… very nice.
- My friends and I were all laughing and braiding each other's hair, twisting our strands into funky 'dos.
- The women's hair is slicked back into boyish dos.
- The short 'do' really suits you!
- These tongs are a great way to twist and bend your way to great new curly dos.
- Jill loves African-inspired dos, so she has fun with looks like cornrows and twists and threaded styles.
- Rather than giving in to the elements, weatherproof your tresses with gorgeous off-the-face dos, like the three low-maintenance styles we've highlighted this month.
2British A party or other social event. 〈非正式，主英〉舞会；社交活动 the soccer club Christmas do 足球俱乐部的圣诞聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - I once sold a year's use of a Jaguar at one of these dos for more than the car was worth, simply because two blokes in the room were each determined to prove that they were considerably richer than the other.
- There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits (and stupid deeley-bopper things on their heads), with even more rubbish shoes.
- It was very seldom that he went out - only family functions or Christmas dos.
- She is a much sought after figure to grace social dos and functions even at the age of 80.
- She said: ‘We always used to feel like usurpers at those dos.’
- They made careers out of being party girls, haunting the edges of posh dos and premieres.
- Mr Burnham, 55, said: ‘I'm a keen go-karter and because of that I get invited to some charity dos.’
- We often have do's, birthday parties, anniversary's, and I'm nearly 96.
- Usually, however, fundraisers become society dos with the ‘need-to-be-seen’ factor eclipsing social causes.
- Whereas it used to be places like Newcastle, Edinburgh now attracts busloads of stag dos.
- Jeff's workplace were having one of those dos where everyone in the company drinks beer and socialises - a pretty good idea when they all work in small teams that don't meet face to face - and Lucy and me tagged along.
- He had been Santa for nephews and nieces at family dos, and I thought he was very good.
- Hen and stag dos, birthdays and a lot of parties coming back again and again ensured that it was always swinging.
- There's even a small selection of products for the hen and stag dos, including T-shirts featuring key words in diamanté on the front such as ‘Sexy bridesmaid’ and ‘Groom's mother’.
- Charity dinners and celebrity dos for a cause are a trend these days - what better way to raise a big sum for a noble cause?
- In our area we have social events, sing songs and get-togethers and dos.
- ‘The dinner he was invited to wasn't even one of our most important dos,’ the source said.
- Such social dos are more or less confined to the well to do and the upwardly mobile class of young professionals.
- We have done so many dos for the family in the pub and we did his wedding for him and now his funeral.
- But it hasn't all been boring work - I've had a couple of fun nights out at press dos: one at the Cinnamon Club - a fab Indian restaurant - to launch a new warming KY Jelly.
Synonyms party, reception, gathering, celebration, function, affair, event, social event, social occasion, social function, social 3usually with modifier Excrement. the air was rancid with the smell of donkey doo Example sentencesExamples - Good thing they learned how to run the ball the last couple of years, or they'd really be in some deep doo.
- It would be funny if many visitors to their properties had dog do on their shoes.
- She laughed when she discovered dog doo could be subjected to DNA testing to help stop the flow of canine excrement landing on the condo complex's property.
- It is no wonder that the team is such a stinking pile of doo.
- Save the Bay—don't let Maryland drown in chicken doo!
- The company's in deep financial doo, so can be bought cheap.
- Will somebody who puts the doo in a plastic bag, then ties it to a tree or leaves it on the side of a path, explain the logic behind that to me?
- Appealingly illustrated by Yelchin, subjects range from flowers about to release their seeds to birds eating berries that will be dropped off in their doo.
4British archaic A swindle or hoax. 〈英，古，非正式〉诈骗；愚弄
PhrasesBe concerned or connected with. 与…无关 the problems are usually to do with family tension 这些问题通常与家庭关系紧张有关。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I think a lot of it is to do with the confusion caused by having a General Election on the same day,’ he said.
- The only thing that made me really unhappy in the period afterwards, where I actually got emotional, was to do with the kids.
- Half the complaints received were to do with community care, 44 per cent children and families and the remaining of six per cent within other areas of the department.
- But this is not a financial matter, it is to do with health.
- ‘This age group is the most likely to be involved in a crash and we believe this is to do with inexperience,’ Mr Farrell said.
- I could tell that part of the silence was to do with how much weight I had lost.
- It is a very spiritual activity as it is to do with seasonal change and the passage of time.
- I had a hard time earning the respect of supporters, who thought his transfer was to do with me.
- I have seen hair thinning in women who have dieted a lot and I think this is to do with poor vitamin and mineral intake.
- Much of this, he suspects, is to do with the Internet.
Synonyms relate to, apply to, be relevant to, have relevance to, concern, refer to, have reference to, belong to, pertain to, be pertinent to, bear on, have a bearing on, appertain to, affect, involve, cover, touch
informal Behave in a manner characteristic of (a specified person) 〈非正式〉（在举止行为上）模仿（某人） he did a Garbo after his flop in the play 他表演失败后就模仿嘉宝。 Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, surely, if he wanted to make it truly dramatic, he should have tried doing a Richard Hannay and hanging off the clock hands.
- He was caught on camera doing a Vinny Jones on St Mirren striker Mark Yardley.
- The leading actors even wore the correct underwear beneath their historically researched costumes - known in the trade as doing a von Stroheim, because Erich von Stroheim insisted on undie realism in 1924 for Greed.
- So without doing a Walt Whitman, I'm now going to self-refer.
- As I pictured him doing a Travis Bickle through the urine reeking, hashish infested streets of Madrid, I felt like paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the man.
- I am not doing an Arsene Wenger, but I did not see the incident that led to his first booking.
- Anyway, old Neb thought he was the greatest wonder of the world, especially after doing an Alan Titchmarsh on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- I am not doing a Germaine Greer or Betty Friedan.
- People will naturally say, ‘Ah, motor racing, money, TV - it's a money-spinning exercise; he's doing a Simon Cowell’.
- I thought Knight was doing an Anastacia as this album opened to the rock-tinged tune of her latest single Come As You Are.
informal Do not use the word — to me. 〈非正式〉不要对我说… “Don't morning me. Where the hell've you been all night?” “别跟我说早安，你一晚上到底在哪？” Example sentencesExamples - ‘Don't hello me,’ I reply, ‘You think that you can slander me in the paper and then act as though everything is ok?’
- Don't sorry me, go down and apologize.
- ‘Whatever, Mindy… whatever,’ he muttered. ‘No, don't whatever me! I want to know the truth!’
1Persist, even if death is the result. 不成功，毋宁死；决一死战 Example sentencesExamples - Some of these players are not prepared to do or die for York and I need to draft players in who are.
- When he set off to make the 7000-mile trip alone, Mr Halsey swore he would ‘do or die’.
- This was how to live, on the edge, ready to do or die, with no safety rope to haul you back in.
- They are Indian companies with not so much of a global market or mindshare, but with a determination to do or die.
- He seemed determined to do or die on the last day of combat.
- 1.1Used to describe a critical situation where one's actions may result in victory or defeat.
关键时刻 the 72nd hole was do or die 第72洞是个关键。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Everything for us is do or die,’ she explained.
- Yes, it was important, but not a do or die situation, as is portrayed by the president's political rivals.
- ‘At this point it's basically a do or die situation as we are right on the edge of making play-offs,’ explained Paul.
- This election was do or die for them.
- Every game is a must-win situation, creating a do or die atmosphere with each contest.
- For the England fans before the match the game against the Germans was do or die.
- You know this is do or die - if you lose, you're done.
- ‘It's pretty much do or die, and your competitiveness comes out,’ he said.
- It was literally do or die for the print media and something had to give.
- His incredible death or glory hundred, in a do or die qualification battle for India at the Sinhalese Sports Club Stadium left the Kiwis rubbing their eyes in sheer disbelief.
Rules of behavior. 行为准则；须知 I have no knowledge of the political dos and don'ts 我对政治上的规矩一无所知。 Example sentencesExamples - What's more, there are some quite complicated rituals governing the dos and don'ts of everyday interaction.
- Rattled by this experience and not knowing what he had done to offend, our visitor asked me for some guidance on the dos and don'ts of the local culture.
- They see religion as a mere list of dos and don'ts, and little else.
- As part of this programme, hostel cooks were taught the dos and don'ts of purchasing vegetables, serving food, preserving food and raw material.
- It's as easy to take a good picture as it is to take a bad one, if the photographer is aware of a few basic dos and don'ts.
- There are a few dos and don'ts when it comes to preparing and cooking sprouts.
- We are given some dos and don'ts that must be followed over the coming weeks
- However, we are happy to explain the dos and don'ts to anybody who wants guidance.
- I'd say I've become more confident and learnt the dos and don'ts of the industry.
- Here are some dos and don'ts once you land in the U.S.
Become successful or wealthy. 变得成功；致富 Example sentencesExamples - Willy insisted that because Bernard was not well liked, he would not do well for himself when he grew up.
- It has managed to do well for itself over the years, and today continues to seek new strategic partners.
- To do well for myself, I have to create a product or service that is positive and desirable for others.
- But I always say that I will never worry about her survival skills, I know she'll always do well for herself in the long-term.
- A bank with access to this market can do well for itself by offering credit at 25 percent.
- I wanted to do well for myself and for my parents who did not have the opportunity to attend college.
- Meanwhile, Harper's Bazaar isn't the only fashion magazine that did well for itself in the second half of 2002.
- Such thinking led him to start his own firm, Eugene Meyer and Company, which opened in 1904, and gradually, he began to make his mark on Wall Street and to do well for himself and his associates.
- We can't support her - and she will totally screw up a terrific opportunity to do well for herself.
- The town was founded in 1874, and it did well for itself thanks to a small, oily, bony fish called menhaden.
Be connected with (someone or something) to the extent specified. 与（某人，某物）有多大关系 John's got a lot to do with that bribery scandal 约翰和那场可怕的谋杀没有任何关系。 half the country believed rock 'n' roll had something to do with national decline Example sentencesExamples - They tried to make a big deal out of it, but the truth is that the governor had nothing to do with that.
- Perhaps this has something to do with why I failed as an architecture student.
- He sees himself as a pioneer in the field he has chosen, which actually has nothing to do with what he did in college.
- This could have something to do with why a lot of people don't see any importance in marriage.
- He told a jury at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday he had nothing to do with either the murders or the shooting.
- She wondered if the long dry hot weather may have something to do with what she was seeing.
- I used to be in the Forces for five years and that might have something to do with how calm I was.
- The problem has nothing to do with too much tax or too few incentives.
- Players do not like criticism and maybe that had something to do with what happened today.
- This has nothing to do with how much faith you have or how you feel.
Used to express the speaker's opinion that something contravenes custom, opinion, or propriety. 〈英〉 用于表示说话人认为某事与习俗、舆论或礼节相悖不合适的，不可行的 in such a society it is not done to admit to taking religion seriously 在这样一个社会里承认很重视宗教是行不通的。 Example sentencesExamples - It isn't done to speak ill of the dead.
- When you're pulling in $20 million a movie, it isn't done to ask exactly how long you spent in architecture school!
- But someone should tell him that it isn't done to talk about one's son as one would about a prized racehorse at a stud farm.
- In France bills are expected to be paid by the due date it is not done to wait for the 'final warning' letter!
Used to express the speaker's opinion that someone's behavior is unsatisfactory and cannot be allowed to continue. 用来表示说话人不满意某人的行为并认为不应再让其继续下去不行 Don't talk like that—I've told you before, it won't do 不能进行那种谈话——我跟你说过，这是不行的。 Example sentencesExamples - It simply will not do for an elected government to fob people off with clichés and half truths.
- I know that I am still recovering from fatigue, but I can use tiredness as an excuse and that just will not do.
informal Used to indicate that one will not tolerate something any longer. 〈非正式〉 用来表示某人再也不能容忍某事够了！行了！ 够了！我们走吧！ Example sentencesExamples - That does it! I quit!
- ‘Well, that does it!’ Tyler said. He brushed past Josh and out of the room.
- I was already deciding whether to unlock the door or not, but that does it! I'll stay here until it kills me, do you hear?
- All right, that does it! I want to know what's behind that door.
- That does it, I'm going to bed.
informal Used to express dismay or anger when something has gone wrong. 〈非正式〉 用来表示出问题时的沮丧或愤怒完了！ Example sentencesExamples - ‘That's done it!’ said a growl from the crackling intercom system. ‘Our energy transfer unit just had a stroke.’
- ‘Uh oh, that's done it,’ he said. ‘We've got to get off this ship ASAP!’
- Oh hell, that's done it.
do someone's head (or nut) in informal Make someone extremely angry, worried, or agitated. 〈英，非正式〉暴怒；极其担心；极其激动 Example sentencesExamples - Writing three articles in three successive days has clearly done her head in.
- It's the constant scrutinising from Management that does one's head in.
- Trust me, when you're knackered this sort of thing does your head in.
- The downside of Real Madrid for Keane is that the mad politics of the place might well have done his head in, while the move would obviously have involved more upheaval on the personal and family front than a run up the road to Glasgow.
- He has done my head in rather effectively, though, so there wasn't far to go.
- You can do well in the reserves and be scoring regularly, but when after training hard all week there's nothing at the end of it, then it does your head in.
- The thing is, if you try to help at all, it just does your head in.
- ‘All that research really does my head in,’ he confesses.
- This really did my head in, so for a few minutes I stood there trying to work it out.
- I could make lots of excuses, but essentially it's done my head in.
1Have no contact or dealings with. 与…没有联系；与…没有打交道 Billy and his father have had nothing to do with each other for nearly twenty years 比利和他父亲不相往来已有将近20年了。 Synonyms steer clear of, avoid, shun, evade, eschew, shy away from, fight shy of, recoil from, keep away from, keep one's distance from, give a wide berth to, leave alone - 1.1Be no business or concern of.
不关…的事；不用…操心 it's my decision—it has nothing to do with you 这是我的决定——不关你的事。 Example sentencesExamples - Striker Andy Gray said: ‘We've got to do the business on the pitch, what goes on off it is nothing to do with us.’
- This is our concern alone, this is nothing to do with you!
- We wanted to go with him for counselling but we were told our son was over 18 and it was nothing to do with us.
- It was between the clubs and they couldn't agree a price. It was nothing to do with me so I just ignored it.
- It was nothing to do with anyone other than his family.
- Every time MPs try to get answers from the Department of Health, we are told it is nothing to do with ministers.
- As a businessman himself, he should obviously be able to draw the distinction between running a successful business for commercial gain and getting involved in something that is nothing to do with him.
- I always thought that it was nothing to do with me, that it was to do with other people's opinion.
- 1.2Be unconnected with.
与…无关 he says his departure has nothing to do with the calls for his resignation 他说他的离开和辞职要求无关。 Example sentencesExamples - I discovered I had some skills that I didn't realise were saleable - namely writing and speaking - which were nothing to do with my first career as an oil executive.
- According to an airport spokesperson, both of these flights were delayed because the planes were late arriving at the airport and were nothing to do with the fact that security guards were on strike at the same time.
- The ailments that he had - bronchitis, asthma, malaria - were nothing to do with war service so he had to live on a ten shillings-a-week pension.
- It was nothing to do with politics and everything to do with evidence.
- The Government preens itself about how well the economy is going, but that is nothing to do with what it has done.
- The reason it didn't work was nothing to do with how I looked, we just weren't right for each other.
- The girl was nothing to do with what was going on, a completely innocent bystander hit by a stray bullet.
- But I can confirm it was nothing to do with drugs.
- I went to the studio, and they asked me the most foolish questions that were nothing to do with animal welfare.
- It is nothing to do with how fast you run, the power comes from the shoulders.
Synonyms be unconnected with, be unrelated to
informal Used to indicate that one intends to prevent someone from doing what they were about to do. 〈非正式〉（用于阻止某人的行为）别那样 Sharon went to get in the taxi. “Oh no you don't,” said Steve 莎伦走过去要进出租车。“哦，别那样，"史蒂夫说道。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Oh no you don't!’ I shouted, jumping for the door before he could.
- No you don't lad. Let William and Jack go after them.
Phrasal Verbs1Put an end to; remove. 〈非正式〉结束；去除 the desire to do away with racism 废除种族主义的愿望。 Example sentencesExamples - New packaging technologies could finally do away with the family butcher.
- It can take the pressure off Dublin Airport and do away with the necessity for a second terminal at an already overcrowded airport and city.
- If there are scratches, you can use polish cleaner and scratch remover to do away with them.
- Lewis said the merger would cut costs by erasing 6,000 jobs and doing away with overlapping technology and marketing expenses.
- During his time at the Central Bank he dined in the staff restaurant and did away with the executive dining room.
- It said: ‘The whole purpose of this initiative as we understood it is to save money by doing away with, or at least cutting down on things like order books.’
- It seems they are always looking for things to change or do away with.
- The government will this week unveil a plan to abolish red tape for business and consumers, doing away with thousands of petty laws and rules, and streamlining all regulations.
- We should learn instead from New Zealand, which did away with virtually all its agricultural subsidies and trade barriers in the mid-1980s.
- Perhaps Leeds City Council should do away with pedestrian crossings and rely on the traffic to stop and allow us to cross the road safely.
Synonyms abolish, quash, get rid of, discard, remove, eliminate, discontinue, cancel, stop, end, terminate, put an end to, put a stop to, call a halt to, dispense with, drop, abandon, give up - 1.1Kill.
杀死 he didn't have the courage to do away with her 他没有勇气杀死她。 Example sentencesExamples - Antonia will do away with Barry, and Rose will return the favor by knocking off Hector.
- Many of the participants were on the ground, searching for other victims to do away with.
- Without further ado the king hires an assassin to do away with him, solving all sorts of problems in one deathly stroke.
- While awaiting trial, many accused murderers do away with themselves by hanging.
- He is set to harm the young lady whom you shelter, and do away with all those who hold her in their hearts, be they kith or kin.
- If Jade could try to get rid of George, what would stop her from doing away with David?
Synonyms kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down
Treat or deal with in a specified way. （以特定方式）行动；行事 do as you would be done by 以其人之道还治其人之身。 她对他们很好。 Example sentencesExamples - Then he began to have a faint inkling that he was being treated leniently, and to think that they had done kindly by him, in not yielding to his wish.
- My mother, bless her soul, had done well by me in making me learn to sew at an early age.
- If he had done badly by her he knows I'd put his teeth halfway down his throat.
do someone/something down 1Get the better of someone, typically in an underhanded way. 〈英，非正式〉（多指用卑鄙手段）打败；压倒；制服；欺骗 Example sentencesExamples - For a while there were rumours of a Labor rat out to do him down.
- There is no small irony in the fact that he has been done down by the very forces he sought to win over to New Labour and whom he believed respected him for his authoritarianism and readiness to trample on democratic rights.
- Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of a Munster championship day?
- He never faced a room full of twenty-first century youngsters who, at best, would rather be at home playing Playstation games and, at worst, were determined to do him down.
- Never one to undervalue his own importance, he was able to face his public humiliation because he knew in his own mind that he had been done down by petty, smallminded people, not a match for his abilities and foresight.
- Two years ago they did us down in the same stadium and, since then, their star has been rising and rising.
- ‘He brings great rigour to his arguments and if others cannot do the same they will be done down,’ said one financier.
- 1.1Criticize someone or something.
批评 they're always moaning and doing British industry down 他们一直在抱怨，把英国工业贬得一无是处。 Example sentencesExamples - It's ironic that one of our own should be doing us down again.
- They always had faith in him despite the so-called experts who were only willing to do him down.
- It also comes hot on the heels of allegations filtering back to the Maryhill area that certain other first division managers have been actively doing his side down in the press.
- We don't want to do our country down, but please don't act as if we've got the problems under control.
- The magazine's got a cheek to revel in London's victory when it always does its very best to do our city down.
Synonyms belittle, disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, depreciate, cast aspersions on, discredit, vilify, defame, decry, criticize, abuse, insult, malign
1Defeat, ruin, or kill. 〈非正式〉击败；毁掉；杀死 without that contract we're done for 没有那份合同我们就完了。 Example sentencesExamples - Now the blooms are limp, and soaked through, and I fear they are done for.
- "Well," Ren said, shifting her weight to the other foot, "when he realized that the ship was done for, he appeared absolutely ecstatic."
- ‘Don't worry, they're done for,’ Sean said, his heartbeat starting to slow to normal pace.
- The foolish state of excitement into which I allowed myself to get the other day completely did for me, and I have hardly done anything since.
- That defeat all but did for their already slim chances of progressing.
Synonyms ruin, destroy, reduce to nothing, spoil, mar, injure, blight, shatter, scotch, mess up kill, cause the death of, end the life of, take the life of, finish off 2Do the cleaning for (a person or private household) 〈英，非正式〉为…做清洁工作 Florrie usually did for the Shermans in the mornings 弗洛丽每天早上帮谢尔曼斯打扫卫生。
do something (or nothing) for Enhance (or detract from) the appearance or quality of. 〈非正式〉改善（或有损于）外观；改进（或降低）质量 that scarf does nothing for you 那条围巾有损你的形象。 Example sentencesExamples - That hairstyle does nothing for you, Kat.
- It's a color that does nothing for you.
- Why would she choose to wear such a horrendously unflattering dress? It just does nothing for her.
Example sentencesExamples - They are lurking on every street corner, plotting to do us in.
- Some young men were setting up their instruments, and as another puff of smoke drifted toward Francesca, she hollered, ‘I'm going to go get some air-this smoke is doing me in!’
- He tried to have some generals arrested, and some formed a conspiracy to do him in.
- The amount we consume, what we consume, and how much we consume at one time is doing us in.
- How he died, when he died, and whether he was done in by his comrades, fearful of another purge, all remain a mystery to this day.
- Tuesday Cathy Jamieson was convinced that there's a plot to do her in, after the BBC did an undercover job on the private prison at Kilmarnock.
- Thinking kings rarely prosper: Chaucer's patron Richard II was done in; ditto Charles I, a collector of art more voracious even than Charles Saatchi.
- Some believe she was done in for planning to marry into a successful Arab merchant family.
- Did you come here to see if I was alright or to finish the job of doing me in?
- And most people were convinced that he would be done in.
Synonyms kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down kill, put to death, do to death, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, murder, assassinate, execute, slaughter, butcher, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down - 1.1Tire someone out.
〈英，非正式〉痛打 after hiking in the hills all day, I was utterly done in Example sentencesExamples - He says that the 2001 Lions were done in by all the travelling and inadequate rest periods: his meticulous planning will prevent a similar fate this time.
- Maybe they would have been done in by a running game that produced a measly 2.9 yards per carry.
- I had hoped she would feel like going with us but she was done in by three days of greater than usual activity.
Synonyms wear out, tire out, exhaust, fatigue, weary, overtire, drain, prostrate, enervate, devitalize
Deprive someone of (something) in an underhanded or unfair way. 〈非正式〉（以不光彩、不公平的手段）剥夺某人（的某物） Example sentencesExamples - He also alleged that he had been done out of 60 million shares by one of the bank's three largest shareholders.
- He became convinced that other officers were doing him out of his just rewards: the prize money for capturing enemy ships.
- German resellers are the least worried in Europe that large retailers could do them out of business and sales.
- The Australian controllers are doing them out of a job.
- Also, I can't imagine that professional caddies will like them as they could do them out of employment.
- They both laughed when I told them how much I had paid for it, saying I had been done out of a gold piece.
- Senior officers in MI6 feel deeply threatened by this technology because it effectively does them out of a job.
- You're doing them out of their bread-and-butter here.
- The man would not do you out of a cent and it would certainly not have been his intention to rob anyone.
- ‘Because all the other detox models have a full 24-hour-a-day doctor presence, some doctors think we're doing them out of a job,’ Maxwell says.
Synonyms swindle out of, cheat out of, trick out of, prevent from having, prevent from gaining, deprive of, dispossess of, rob of, strip of, relieve of
Decorate or furnish a room or building in a particular style, color, or material. 〈英，非正式〉（用特定风格、色彩或材料）装修；布置 the basement is done out in limed oak 地下室是用石灰处理过的橡木装修的。 Example sentencesExamples - It's done out in dark wood and the lighting was subdued, with no candles to add a little sparkle.
- The whole place is done out in an Egyptian style.
- She was told it was a girl, bought all pink, did the room out in pink and had a boy.
- It's a steep climb, but worth it: the rooms are done out in an original Indo-Ligurian style and, best of all, both houses share a well-kept terrace garden, sandwiched between the castle and the crashing waves below.
Synonyms decorate, furnish, adorn, ornament, embellish
Beat someone up. 〈英，非正式〉痛打 Example sentencesExamples - He suddenly pulled out a gun and confronted Mr Thompson over some men being ‘sent to do him over.’
- ‘She looked like she had been done over by Mike Tyson,’ added Caroline.
- Also, I am quite a nice person who would not do you over should you reveal some home truths.
- I've realised with a certain sort of delight that I'm now so old that nobody can earn any sort of reputation from doing me over.
- With some people, if they get cross they make a threat and say they'll punch you or do you over if you do it again.
- ‘We could do you over,’ a shy-looking boy with dark hair added loudly before retreating back into the hood on his jacket.
- Half the time you can't go into the playground because someone will do you over, and if they don't get you in school they get you on the way home.
Synonyms beat up, assault, attack, mug, batter, thrash, pummel, pound
1Repeat something. 〈非正式〉损伤 to absorb the lesson, I had to do it over and over 为了消化这一课，我不得不一遍遍重复。 Example sentencesExamples - Even simple choices can have huge consequences, and we never get to do things over!
- Why do something over and over if the result never changes?
- Though Mary Jane made the artist do the face over, the expression did not improve.
- He pried the board free and then, glowering, he did the job over.
- Brown says he's proud of his three-story, three-bedroom home; but if he had to do it over, he'd have budgeted better and saved more money before jumping into buying the house.
- If you could do it over again right now, what would you have fixed?
- If you could do it over, what would be your debut album?
- The best compromise was always just to do it over.
- If it doesn't come loose the first time you may have to do it over a few times until you can easily unscrew the old chuck.
- They saw the dailies, and they came back a couple weeks later, and they said, ‘We'd like to do that scene over, and we'd like you to be more passionate.’
2Decorate or furnish a room or building. 〈非正式〉装修；布置 Example sentencesExamples - I feel like those people on TV getting their houses done over by expensive designers.
- He just sticks his head in the door and loudly proclaims ‘I did my kitchen over today as well and it's much better than this.’
- It was bought about a year ago by an outfit called Country Club Luxury Hotels and has been completely done over.
- She did the house over -- completely, with the exception of the room he'd used for a study.
Dress someone up, especially in an elaborate or impressive way. （尤指精心地或隆重地）打扮；装饰（某人） Agnes was all done up in a slinky black number 艾格尼丝盛装打扮，着一身黑色衣服，窈窕动人。 Example sentencesExamples - Lizzy and Jane were done up nicely if discreetly.
- A group of teenage girls got on, all done up in glitter, crop tops and tight jeans.
- I decided she needed to go out clubbing and did her up in a cute punk style.
- She was poked, prodded, and pinned until she was done up in one of the most elaborate gowns she'd ever worn.
- ‘You don't look so bad yourself,’ Heather replied, realizing that Martha was done up.
1Arrange one's hair in a particular way, especially so as to be pulled back from one's face or shoulders. 梳头 her dark hair was done up in a pony tail 她乌黑的头发扎成一条马尾辫。 Example sentencesExamples - The dress went down midway past her knees, and her hair was done up in a complex braid.
- She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face.
- Betty was all dressed up in pink, and her hair was done up with fake flowers.
- Ashley even did my hair up in a chignon with hair falling to the sides of my face.
- After a day of scrubbing, applying make-up, and sitting still while mother did our hair up, we were ready.
- I did my hair up in a high ponytail and went out to have some breakfast.
- Rosalie looked very relaxed and content and was wearing a blue summer halter dress and her hair was done up in a loose chignon.
- She had several ropes of long black beads around her neck which she absent-mindedly played with in her hand, and her thin hair was done up in an elaborate style.
- However, we can easily guess his social status from his elaborate coiffure: in the manner of high-ranking men, his hair is done up in a topknot, kept in place by an ornamental hairpin.
- Finally ready she slipped on some simple slippers and did her hair up in a loose braid, opting to skip any head pieces for now.
- 1.1Wrap something up.
〈非正式〉损伤 unwieldy packages all done up with twine 都是用绳子包扎的笨重包裹。 Example sentencesExamples - She arrived one snowy day with a shapeless parcel done up in tissue-paper.
- The shopkeeper did up the parcel, handed it me across the counter, took the half-dollar coin I gave him, and I left the shop.
- She held out a brightly wrapped package done up with gold ribbon and a sparkling golden bow.
1with modalWould find useful or would like to have or do. 认为…有用；想要；想做 I could do with a cup of coffee 我想喝杯咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples - Much of our architecture could do with a splash of luxury.
- I could have really done with a team of flying reindeer and a sleigh tonight, to shift me from London to Glasgow.
- I could do with a break before the exams begin in late May.
- Kingsley was a tall, dark, wiry man with messy grey hair that looked as if it could do with a wash.
- Though I could possibly have done with it being in Mayfair, I may have been all of about two minutes less late.
- 1.1British Be unwilling to tolerate or be bothered with.
〈英〉不愿忍受；对…感到烦心 she couldn't be doing with meals for one 她讨厌独自一人吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples - I can't be doing with all that pomp and ceremony.
- And I couldn't be doing with all that hierarchy, ‘Yes, Chef’, ‘No, Chef’.
- And I can't be doing with trying to achieve the wow factor on a budget.
- He often records versions of traditional tunes on his records, but can't be doing with the stuffiness some folksters exude.
- I can't be doing with all these patches and strips of neatly cut grass.
- I can't be doing with all that faffing about in the kitchen.
- No, I can't be doing with these sudden blasts of heat.
- I can't be doing with all the big parties and all that rubbish.
- I can't be doing with thinking about Christmas yet.
- I just think that's so desperately boring and I can't be doing with that.
she could do without cigarettes for a day 她可以一天不吃饭。 Example sentencesExamples - What is the one organic food or drink product you can't do without?
- A crucifying mortgage bill can be avoided if you decide to wait and do without your dream home for a few years.
- Try doing without cigs, booze and satellite TV, then the children would have fresh veg, meat and warm clothing for winter.
- She had tried, unsuccessfully, to give up the habit on several occasions; the best she had achieved was doing without cigarettes for a couple of weeks at a time.
- Twenty-one percent did without food to try to pay their bills.
- This story goes a little further because the couple says that they actually enjoy their sacrifices, speaking as though saving money and doing without things like a DVD player and cell phone are part of an enjoyable game.
- The rest of the crew had set off from San Francisco around the same time as us but were manfully doing without sleep and so were around 10 hours ahead of us.
- She does without herbicides as well, preferring to weed by hand.
- Space has to be found for everything, even if it means the principal does without an office, a desk or even a seat.
- I explained that doing without food was the key element here.
Synonyms forgo, dispense with, abstain from, refrain from, eschew, give up, renounce, forswear, swear off, keep off, keep away from, manage without - 1.1informal Would prefer not to have.
〈非正式〉宁愿没有 I can do without your complaints first thing in the morning 我可不愿一大早就让你找茬。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm sure he can do without the extra humiliation.
- Determined to make a go of their new life, they decide that women are a distraction they can do without and swear off them for three years.
- I could do without the occasional looks of pity I've had from them.
- Although from my point of view as a manager, this is something I could do without, full stop.
- I had become so unreliable, unpredictable and frankly, an embarrassment they could do without.
OriginOld English dōn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doen and German tun, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tithēmi ‘I place’ and Latin facere ‘make, do’. noundoʊdō Music 1(in solmization) the first and eighth note of a major scale. - 1.1 The note C in the fixed-do system.
OriginMid 18th century: from Italian do, an arbitrarily chosen syllable replacing ut, taken from a Latin hymn (see solmization). |