"muddle through" in Chinese (Traditional)

• 勉強應付
• 撐過去

Definition

在沒有明確計劃、資源不足或混亂情況下，勉強完成某事；雖然不完美，但總算撐過去。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Traditional))

屬於口語用語，用來描述在無頭緒、條件不充分時，盡最大努力完成事情，不代表結果完美。常配合“just muddle through”，不要和意志力強調的“power through”混為一談。

Examples

Sometimes you just have to muddle through when things get hard.

有時候事情變難時，只能**勉強應付**。

We don't have a plan, but we'll muddle through somehow.

我們沒有計劃，但總會**撐過去**。

I managed to muddle through the test without studying.

我沒複習就**勉強應付**了考試。

We didn't know what we were doing, but we just muddled through in the end.

我們其實並不知道自己在做什麼，最後還是**撐過去了**。

Life can be messy, but most of us muddle through somehow.

生活常常很混亂，但大多數人都能**勉強應付過去**。

Everyone was confused, but we muddled through the meeting somehow.

大家都很迷糊，但我們還是**把會議勉強開完了**。