cannot for the life of mespokenCAN'T used to say that you cannot remember or understand something even when you try hard 我拼了命也不能,我怎么也不能〔用于不能记起或理解某事时〕 I couldn’t for the life of me remember his name. 我怎么也想不起他的名字。
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