by hook

基本解释

He will do it by hook or by crook.
他不择手段做这件事。
But David is trying to get that promotion by hook or by crook; he even spread rumors smearing the other candidates.
但是，戴维德为了这次能够被提升正在千方百计地想办法。他甚至散布谣言，诬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.
它不是一座普通意义上的庄园，没有田地，没有牧场，也没有让庄园主为了自己和家庭的日常开销而从他们身上把油水挤出来的牢骚满腹的农工。

If you hook a soul up to a body, you can tell the soul was there, by what the body is doing.
如果你通过身体探测灵魂，你可以知道灵魂在那，根据身体在干什么。
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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.
你把弹簧的一端固定在墙上,然后拉伸一段距离,接着你把 1 千克物体固定在上面
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Dimon is still delivering, by hook or crook, positive earnings and a healthy stock price to shareholders.
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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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