| 释义 |
be thrown back onBe forced to rely on (something) because there is no alternative: we are once again thrown back on the resources of our imagination...- ‘Since the experts cancelled each other out, I was thrown back on my own resources to weigh the different arguments and decide for myself,’ he said in one interview.
- What this means is that there's not a lot of colour to the work, whatever musical pleasures appear are swiftly truncated and the audience is thrown back on the text.
- It's not easy being thrown back on the dole again, and I don't know what I'm going to do.
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