settle for

基本解释

We have to settle for evolving the code as best we can under the time constraints.
我们必须在时间的限制之下尽最大努力来满足于改进编码。
Don't settle for achieving "the good life, " because the good life is not good enough.
不要满足于实现什么“美好的生活”，因为美好的生活是不够好的。
For now, both president and Senate seem content to settle for the appearance of job creation rather than the thing itself.
此刻，总统和参议院似乎满足于解决了创造就业的机会而不是事业本身。

They are worried that some students will settle for vocational education when they could go to college and possibly earn more money.
Clearly, important information is to be conveyed to students from people who settle in the fields for a long period of time.
显然，对某个领域,进行长时间研究的学者,会将重要的信息,传达给学生。
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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.
甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。
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She needed an eagle at the par-5 final hole but had to settle for par.
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If you settle for something, you choose or accept it, especially when it is not what you really want but there is nothing else available.