| 释义 |
be gunning for1Be seeking an opportunity to blame or attack (someone): the Republican candidate was gunning for his rival over campaign payments...- I made the mistake of publicly attacking a leading politician on the radio and they have been gunning for me ever since.
- But I realized soon after that I was taking the wrong path and wanted to change so I tried to get back into school but it seemed that the teachers were gunning for me so I thought it best to just be done with that.
- More than the media, it's the fact that obviously there are elements of the New South Wales right of the Liberal Party that were gunning for him and that were doing their best to get it out there.
1.1Be striving for (something) in a determined way: he had been gunning for a place in the squad...- The party is gunning for at least 40 seats, which could make the Congress depend on it for forming the government.
- But to fair (and I have no idea if this is what they were gunning for, but I'm guessing no), this album is pretty depressing, precisely because it's so naively bright and rosy.
- An impulse buy, claims the 30-year-old, but the car met the ‘suitably obnoxious’ criteria that he was gunning for - and it allowed him to indulge his love for driving fast.
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