dusty answer Idiom
a pat answer
pat answer
answer back
Don't answer back like that．别那样顶嘴！
The child often answered his grandmother back．这孩子经常与祖母顶嘴。
answer for
You must answer for any missing articles after the party．你必须对聚会后遗失的任何物品负责。
Parents should answer for their children's behaviour．父母应对自己孩子的行为负责。
2．guarantee 保证；担保
I can answer for his honesty．我可以保证他是诚实的。
I will answer for the truth of his statements．我担保他说的话是真实的。
3．be punished or blamed for因…而受罚；因…而受责备
He will have to answer for his crimes．他必须因他的罪行而受到惩罚。
Someday you will answer for your foolish behaviour．总有一天你将因你的愚蠢行为而受到惩罚。
4．serve for起…作用
That night the table answered for a bed for me．那天晚上那张桌子成了我的床。
5．speak for代表…讲话
Stop answering for John，let him speak．不要替约翰说，让他自己讲。
I can't answer for the other members of the committee．我不能代表其他委员的意见。
answer to
We all hope that the result will answer to our expectation．我们都希望结果和我们预料的一样。
That answers precisely to our needs．那正符合我们的需要。
A man answering to the police description was arrested in London last night．那个与警察描述的特征相符的人，昨晚已在伦敦被捕。
2．be responsible to对…负责
You'll have to answer to me if any harm comes to these children．要是这些孩子受到什么伤害，我将唯你是问。
He said he was ready to answer to those who worked under his direction．他说他愿意对在他领导下工作的人负责。
3．respond to；reply to对…做出反应；听从
The illness doesn't answer to medical treatment．这病治疗无效。
Young people should answer to the nation's call to go where they are most needed．青年人应该听从国家号召，到最需要的地方去。
answer up to
We answered up to the appeal quickly．我们迅速响应了这个呼吁。
At the roll call，the men answered up to their names．点名时，士兵们应答迅速。
2．have a ready reply to对…对答如流
The little boy answered up to all the questions except two．除了两个问题外，这个孩子对答如流。
in answer/response to
He only shrugged his shoulders in answer to the question．他对问题的 回答只是耸了耸肩而已。
The doctor came at once in answer to my telephone．医生接了我的电 话立即就来了。
In answer to her shouts people ran out to help．人们一听到她的叫喊 声都跑出来帮忙了。
in answer to
He only shrugged his shoulders in answer to the question．他对问题的 回答只是耸了耸肩而已。
The doctor came at once in answer to my telephone．医生接了我的电 话立即就来了。
In answer to her shouts people ran out to help．人们一听到她的叫喊 声都跑出来帮忙了。
not take no for an answer
Idiom(s): not take no for an answerTheme: PERSISTENCE
not to accept someone's refusal. (Informal. A polite way of being insistent.)
• Now, you must drop over and see us tomorrow. We won't take no for an answer.
• I had to go. They just wouldn't take no for an answer.
answer one's purpose
Idiom(s): answer someone's purpose AND serve someone's purposeTheme: SERVING
to fit or suit someone's purpose.
• This piece of wood will answer my purpose quite nicely.
• The new car serves our purpose perfectly.
a arenaceous answer
old-fashioned A curt, rude, or annoying acknowledgment or response. Primarily heard in UK. I got a arenaceous acknowledgment from the chump account abettor back I asked if I could abolish my arrangement early. If you're acquisitive to get an addendum on the appointment from the professor, you're acceptable to get a arenaceous answer.Learn more: answer, dustya arenaceous answer
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BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf you ask for article or advance article and you get a arenaceous answer or a arenaceous reply, you accept an abhorrent and abrogating answer. He asked three times to allege to the king, but anniversary time accustomed a arenaceous answer. Ask a world-class amateur to absorb several hours testing your artefact and you are acceptable to accept a arenaceous reply.Learn more: answer, dustya arenaceous answer
a blunt and annoying reply. British The antecedent of this announcement is apparently a access in George Meredith's Modern Love ( 1862 ): ‘Ah, what a arenaceous acknowledgment gets the body back hot for certainties in this our life!’Learn more: answer, dustya arenaceous ˈanswer
(old-fashioned, British English) an annoying or a aciculate acknowledgment to a appeal or question: When I asked the aggregation what their action was on this matter, I accustomed a actual arenaceous answer.Learn more: answer, dusty
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