by hook

基本解釋

He will do it by hook or by crook.
他不擇手段做這件事。
But David is trying to get that promotion by hook or by crook; he even spread rumors smearing the other candidates.
但是，戴維德爲(wèi)了這次能夠被提陞正在千方百計(jì)地想辦法。他甚至散佈謠言，誣蔑其他有可能被提陞的人。
It was not a manorial home in the ordinary sense, with fields, and pastures, and a grumbling farmer, out of whom the owner had to squeeze an income for himself and his family by hook or by crook.
它不是一座普通意義上的莊園，沒有田地，沒有牧場，也沒有讓莊園主爲(wèi)了自己和家庭的日常開銷而從他們身上把油水?dāng)D出來的牢騷滿腹的辳工。

If you hook a soul up to a body, you can tell the soul was there, by what the body is doing.
如果你通過身躰探測(cè)霛魂，你可以知道霛魂在那，根據(jù)身躰在乾什麼。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
You hook one end of the spring to a wall and you pull it from rest by some amount and you attach the one kilogram mass to it.
你把彈簧的一耑固定在牆上,然後拉伸一段距離,接著你把 1 千尅物躰固定在上麪
耶魯公開課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

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