| 词汇 | win |
| 释义 | See defeat, overwhelm win verb► are you winning?used as a rhetorical greeting UK, 1984.► win hands downto win with great ease. From horse racing, when a jockey may relax the hold on the reins when victory seems certain UK, 1882.► would win doing hand-springs; would win with its head in its chest; would win shelling peasof a racehorse, certain to win. Also used as 'could win' UK, 1994.► you can't winused for expressing the futility of action, or the inevitability of failure UK, 1926win around ► see win round/around win back win back sth/sb • win sth/sb back to succeed in getting back something or someone that you had in the past, especially after it was taken from you by someone else: The Democrats were hoping to win back control of Congress at the election. Graf managed to win back her Wimbledon title. Eventually the girl's mother went to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to win back her child.■ SIMILAR TO: regain win out 1. win out to succeed or defeat others after a long struggle or contest: In the end, the environmentalists won out and the nuclear plant was not built.+ over British Airways finally won out over its competitors and was awarded the contract.2. win out if one feeling or quality wins out, in the end it is stronger than other feelings or qualities: In the end, my curiosity won out and I had to read the letter. win over win over sb • win sb over to persuade someone to support you, or to get them to like you, especially when they did not before: We'll be working even harder over the next ten days to win over the undecided voters. Eventually Thomas won my father over, with his cheerful confidence and good sense of humour. The jury were obviously completely won over by her performance in the witness box.■ SIMILAR TO: win round/around win round/around win sb round/around • win round/around sb BrE to persuade someone to agree with you or do what you want, especially when they did not want to before: After a long debate, Darwin finally succeeded in winning Hooker round to his own way of thinking. Tess knew that it would probably only take a smile and a joke to win her parents around.■ SIMILAR TO: win over win through 1. win through especially BrE to finally succeed in achieving something or dealing with a difficult situation: We are confident that we will win through in the end and get what we want.2. win through especially BrE to succeed in winning a place in another stage of a competition, after defeating others in a game or sport+ to He is confident that England will win through to the final.■ SIMILAR TO: go through win (out) (over someone or something)to defeat someone or something. I hope our team wins out over you guys. Good teamwork always wins out.
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