英语词汇“to pay one's dues”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. colloquial (originally U.S.). to pay one's dues and variants: to fulfil one's obligations; to work hard or experience difficulties as one may expect to do before achieving success or recognition.Apparently first widely used by jazz musicians. Quot. 1943 appears to be an isolated early instance.

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1943 ‘S. G. Wolsey’ Call House Madam xiv. 403 She was mixed up later in one of the rottenest shooting messes ever staged in Hollywood, but she got away with her end of it and never paid her dues.

1956 Esquire Feb. 63/2 ‘Some of the commercial jazz guys think they're playing real jazz, but they aren't making it because they haven't paid their dues.’ (Suffering enough of the trials and tribulations of life to realize that jazz comes from the heart.)

1969 Down Beat 17 Apr. 19/2 Duke, Thad, Mel and myself, we've paid considerable amounts of dues in trying to get this thing off the ground.

2012 N. Silver Signal & Noise iii. 86 They had paid their dues and gradually worked their way up through the organizational hierarchy.

单词	to pay one's dues
释义	> as lemmas to pay one's dues P3. colloquial (originally U.S.). to pay one's dues and variants: to fulfil one's obligations; to work hard or experience difficulties as one may expect to do before achieving success or recognition.Apparently first widely used by jazz musicians. Quot. 1943 appears to be an isolated early instance. ΚΠ 1943 ‘S. G. Wolsey’ Call House Madam xiv. 403 She was mixed up later in one of the rottenest shooting messes ever staged in Hollywood, but she got away with her end of it and never paid her dues. 1956 Esquire Feb. 63/2 ‘Some of the commercial jazz guys think they're playing real jazz, but they aren't making it because they haven't paid their dues.’ (Suffering enough of the trials and tribulations of life to realize that jazz comes from the heart.) 1969 Down Beat 17 Apr. 19/2 Duke, Thad, Mel and myself, we've paid considerable amounts of dues in trying to get this thing off the ground. 2012 N. Silver Signal & Noise iii. 86 They had paid their dues and gradually worked their way up through the organizational hierarchy. extracted from duen. < as lemmas
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