fall between two stools

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词汇分类：英语怎么说（词组）,张汉熙高级英语（第一册和第二册）

词义：

v.

两头落空；

释义

鸡飞蛋打；

用法：

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

Between two stools one falls to the ground.
两头落空。

权威例句

Mental health services for people with learning disabilities : People with comorbidity can fall between two stools

Multiple goal pursuit -- to kill two birds with one stone or to fall between two stools ?

A theorist in industry: can one fall between two stools and still land on one's feet?

Will clinical care fall between two stools?

Jeugdigen tussen wal en schip? [Youth between two stools]

Falling between two stools: Operational inconsistencies between ICDS and NRHM in the management of severe malnutrition

Between Two Stools? Responding to Young Women who Offend

Between Fact and Fiction: The Nature of Events in Joyce and Beckett

"Any other comments?"Open questions on questionnaires – a bane or a bonus to research?

Caregiving burden of families looking after persons with intellectual disability and behavioural or psychiatric problems

造句：

1. If you don't make your choice in time, you are likely to fall between two stools.

如果你不及时作出决定，就会两头落空。

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2. You'd fall between two stools.

你会两头落空的。

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3. If you go on do as that, you will fall between two stools.

如果你继续这样下去，你将两头落空。

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4. The one who wants an easy job with a high pay will fall between two stools in the end.

谁不想耕作又轻松，薪水又丰厚？不过这样的想法可难保不两头落空。

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5. Again, we may make compromises and fall between two stools.

我们可能再一次采取妥协办法，但结果是两头落空。

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6. Again, we may make compromises and fall between two stools.

我们可能再一次采取妥协办法，但结果是两头落空。

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