英语词组by hook or by crook是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

by hook or by crook by one means or another; by fair means or foul.

☞ The hook referred to here is probably a billhook or heavy curved pruning knife; the crook is a hooked staff. One of the earliest recorded instances of the phrase is in Gower's Confessio Amantis (1390), which uses the rare word hepe (meaning 'a pruning knife') in place of hook. In 1822 William Cobbett wrote of people who lived near woodland being allowed, under the ancient forest law of England, to gather dead branches for fuel, which they may have brought down from the trees literally by hook or by crook.

1998Adèle GerasSilent Snow, Secret Snow Till then, she would hang on. By hook or by crook. Come what may.

词组	by hook or by crook
释义	by hook or by crook by one means or another; by fair means or foul. ☞ The hook referred to here is probably a billhook or heavy curved pruning knife; the crook is a hooked staff. One of the earliest recorded instances of the phrase is in Gower's Confessio Amantis (1390), which uses the rare word hepe (meaning 'a pruning knife') in place of hook. In 1822 William Cobbett wrote of people who lived near woodland being allowed, under the ancient forest law of England, to gather dead branches for fuel, which they may have brought down from the trees literally by hook or by crook. 1998Adèle GerasSilent Snow, Secret Snow Till then, she would hang on. By hook or by crook. Come what may.
随便看	once (or every once) in a while once upon a time once upon a time on cloud nine on cloud nine on cue on deck one one and the same one and the same one degree under on edge one fine day one fine day one for the book one for the road one for the road one good turn deserves another one heck of a one hell of a one-horse one-horse race one-horse race one-horse town one-horse town