when push comes to shove

Nor matter what her flaws are, when push comes to shove, you're gonna want that girl on your side.

不管她做错了什么，到了紧要关头，你还是会希望她站在你这边的。

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Some behavior that might qualify as just another day in the typical fraternity ( binge drinking, minor theft, drunk driving, abusing people or farm animals, and so on) shows everyone you work with that, when push comes to shove, you have poor judgment and don't know where to draw the line.

有些行为，听上去不过是当初在大学联谊会里的正常事情（狂饮、小偷小摸、酒后驾车、虐待人或者家畜等等），但这会让与你共事的人认为，你这个人在紧要关头缺乏判断力，并且不懂适可而止。

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When push comes to shove, these rhetorical nuances are of little account.

到了紧要关头，这些言辞上的细微差别并没有什么意义。

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We are saying that when push comes to shove, promoting its bonds to its citizens is inevitably what the US will do, since it has done so in every other crisis of deficit spending.

我们说的是，在迫不得已的情况下，向公众推销公债将是美国的必然选择，因为在过去的每一场赤字开支危机中，美国都是这么做的。

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Yet, when push comes to shove, Brazil struggles to explain what the more balanced world of its dreams would look like.

然而，到了关键时刻，巴西还是很难解释其梦想中的更为平衡的世界究竟是什么样的。

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When push comes to shove, he says, politicians will always give priority to the cities over the countryside, since they are home to more voters.

他说道，当事态严重时，政治家通常会优先考虑城市，而不是农村，因为那里有着更多的选民。

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When push comes to shove, the user reflects upon the execution environment, querying, coding, and creating objects literally out of thin air.

当轻推变成猛撞时，用户需要考虑执行环境，查询、编码和凭空创建对象。

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When push comes to shove, you are on your own.

如果形势糟糕，你就只能靠自己了。

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I do not make a habit of it, but I'm pretty good at lying when push comes to shove.

这个不是我的一个习惯，但是我在必须说谎的时候相当擅长于说谎。

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" Karzai says a lot of the right things," a congressional aide said Thursday. "But when push comes to shove, we don't see it."

“卡尔扎伊说了很多正确的话，”一位国会官员在周四说。“但当要为作为的时候，我们却没有看见真发生了什么。”

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Veronica: I appreciate your loyalty, but when push comes to shove, you've got to look out for yourself, right?

维罗妮卡：我很欣赏你的忠诚，但在这么紧要的关头，你应该替自己着想，对吧？

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After something as obliterating as the shooter comes in, when push comes to shove Owen says,'I want to spend my life with you.

生死关头后，Owen终于被触动说出了那句‘我想与你共度一生’。

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When push comes to shove, only your true friends will still stand by you.

当事态严重时，真正的朋友还会支持你。

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