英和和英

動詞

do without (third-person singular simple present does without, present participle doing without, simple past did without, past participle done without)

1. (chiefly transitive) To manage despite the lack of.

   Synonyms: dispense with, eschew

   Coordinate term: go without

   If you are prepared to do without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.

   During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.

   I could do without the sarcasm.

   • 1916 March 11, H.G. Wells, “What is Coming”, in Saturday Evening Post‎:

     Let us consider the charges against this individual. Let us ask, Can we do without him?

   • 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, quoting Gerry Scoppettuolo, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:

     We never owned a home. We moved all the time. But we never did without.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:

     He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.