| 词汇 | might (just) as well |
| 释义 | might (just) as wellmight (just) as well a) SUGGESTused to suggest that someone should do something, because there is no good reason to do anything else 最好还是…，还是…为好，倒不如… I suppose we might as well go home. 我想我们还是回家为好。 b) used to say that the effect of an action or situation is the same as if it was another one 还不如，倒不如〔用于表示某个行为或情况与另一个效果相同〕 They might as well have a badge on them saying ‘Steal me’. 他们倒不如别上一枚徽章，写上“把我偷去吧”。 He might as well have been a million miles away. 他倒不如在千里之外。 Examples from the Corpus might (just) as well• D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.• I thought I might just as well come down to the point.• He said we might as well go before his sister arrived, because once she came, it would be impossible.• You might as well go to a branch.• I might as well have been a convert, a Gentile.• He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.• And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.• But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable, and one might as well say so. → might (just) as well at might1(4) |
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