柯林斯英汉双解大词典
settle for ( settling, settled, settles )
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PHRASAL VERB If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, especially when it is not what you really want but there is nothing else available. 勉强接受
例：Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.
弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者。她就是无法勉强接受任何平庸的东西。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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They refused to settle for a promise of jam tomorrow.
他们并不满足于那些美好未来的空话。
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In the end they had to settle for a draw.
最后，他们只好接受平局的结果。
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They are worried that some students will settle for vocational education when they could go to college and possibly earn more money.
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Clearly, important information is to be conveyed to students from people who settle in the fields for a long period of time.
显然，对某个领域,进行长时间研究的学者,会将重要的信息,传达给学生。
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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.
甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。
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