| 单词 | put something towards something |
| 释义 | put something towards something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput something towards something phrasal verbto use some money in order to pay part of the cost of somethingAlec put the money towards a trip to Australia. → put→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusput towards • They then celebrated by putting the money towards a dinner-dance.• We could put it towards a new bed head.• He put his finger towards one of the clenched fists and found it tightly grasped.• But while Stockton councillors yesterday agreed to put £19,000 towards the costs, cash-strapped Middlesbrough said they could spend no more than £10,000.• By contrast, a cruiser is utterly directed, as Schopenhauer might have put it, towards the extinction of his desire.• A further difficulty is that it would apparently require us to put enormous resources towards trivial increases in length of life. |
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