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，戴維德為了這次能夠被提升正在千方百計地想辦法。他甚至散布謠言，誣蔑其他有可能被提升的人。
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，也沒有讓莊園主為了自己和家庭的日常開銷而從他們身上把油水?dāng)D出來的牢騷滿腹的農(nóng)工。

If you hook a soul up to a body, you can tell the soul was there, by what the body is doing.
如果你通過身體探測靈魂，你可以知道靈魂在那，根據(jù)身體在干什么。
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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.
你把彈簧的一端固定在墻上,然后拉伸一段距離,接著你把 1 千克物體固定在上面
耶魯公開課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

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But most of the truly career-minded will try for an old master, by hook or by crook.
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