settle for

基本解釋

We have to settle for evolving the code as best we can under the time constraints.
我們必須在時間的限制之下盡最大努力來滿足于改進編碼。
Don't settle for achieving "the good life, " because the good life is not good enough.
不要滿足于實現(xiàn)什么“美好的生活”，因為美好的生活是不夠好的。
For now, both president and Senate seem content to settle for the appearance of job creation rather than the thing itself.
此刻，總統(tǒng)和參議院似乎滿足于解決了創(chuàng)造就業(yè)的機會而不是事業(yè)本身。

They are worried that some students will settle for vocational education when they could go to college and possibly earn more money.
Clearly, important information is to be conveyed to students from people who settle in the fields for a long period of time.
顯然，對某個領域,進行長時間研究的學者,會將重要的信息,傳達給學生。
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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.
甚至在以色列人安定以后,依舊認為，那種游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。
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She needed an eagle at the par-5 final hole but had to settle for par.
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If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, especially when it is not what you really want but there is nothing else available.