ifs and buts
基本解释
- 假设和转折；遁词；借口；推托
英汉例句
- I'm tired of all your ifs and buts.
你们的那套理由让我听腻了。 - A competent person has no ifs and buts in his vocabulary.
有能力的人的词典里面没有“如果”和“但是”这些字眼。 - No ifs and buts, at absolute zero temperature, this is exactly 9, 192, 631, 770 hertz.
这个频率不存在“如果和但是”，绝对零度的条件下，9192631770赫兹，不会有任何偏差。 - Its prospective members are not opposed to joining the European Union, but they qualify their enthusiasm with ifs and buts.
ECONOMIST: Poland - Each agreement was abandoned after the first instalment of a loan was spent and then had to be negotiated afresh with a new government after many painful ifs and buts.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan’s cash - So my war tax refusal has been one of ifs, buts, and the character of the particular war of the moment.
FORBES: War Tax Resistance Today