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To keep someone hoping for a long time — about love, a job, a payment — when you don't really mean to give them what they hope for. The person goes in the middle: string her along, string him along. Almost always used to criticize, often in the continuous: he's just stringing you along.
吊著某人、一直給假希望
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
string alongverb
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To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions.
- She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.
- What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: "No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make the best of what we have."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。