| 词组 | go for |
| 释义 | go for 1. go for sth to try to get, win, or achieve something: ▪ What sort of job are you going for, Tim? ▪ Suleymonglu is going for his third consecutive Olympic gold medal. go for it! (=used to encourage someone to try to do or get something) ▪ If it sounds like a good deal, go for it! sb really goes for it (=used to say that someone tries as hard as hard as they can in order to get something) spoken ▪ She's incredibly ambitious. If she sees a chance for promotion, she really goes for it. 2. go for sth to choose a particular thing because you think it is better or more suitable: ▪ Go for the black dress - it looks much better on you than the blue one. ▪ I've got to drive home, so I'd better go for something non-alcoholic. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑choose 3. go for sth/sb not progressive informal to like a particular type of thing or person: ▪ What kind of girls do you go for? ▪ I don't normally go for bright colours. 4. go for sth to be sold or available to buy for a particular price: ▪ How much did the painting go for in the end? ▪ Houses in Notting Hill now go for well over $1 million. 5. go for sb informal to attack someone physically or criticize them very severely: ▪ Ben lifted his arm and for a second I thought he was going to go for me. ▪ She always used to go for him in meetings. ■ SIMILAR TO: attack 6. that/the same goes for sb/sth used to say that the same thing is also true about someone or something else: ▪ I've always hated living in towns. Fortunately the same goes for my husband too. 7. have a lot going for you informal if someone or something has a lot going for them, they have a lot of advantages or good qualities: ▪ We've always thought that the Austrian skiing resorts have a lot going for them. have everything going for you ▪ It was so sad. She had everything going for her, and then she had that terrible accident. 8. go for sth if a particular amount of something, especially money, goes for a specific purpose, it is used for that purpose: ▪ About 38% of the Department of Energy's budget goes for research and development. ▪ $54 million went for resettlement of refugees. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go on BrE 9. go for your gun/knife etc to move your hand quickly towards your gun, knife etc, in order to use it to attack someone: ▪ The police officer thought he was going for his gun, and shot him through the chest. |
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