pay one's dues

pay one's dues fulfil one's obligations 尽责任（或义务）。 ■ experience difficulties before achieving success （取得成功前）经受困难： this drummer has paid his dues with the best. 这个鼓手遇到的困难不比任何人少。 pay one's dues 见DUE.

• sailable
• colour-blind
• rotatee
• dilutee
• launching platform
• ethnocracies
• drag ... down
• creolise
• intend for
• maximum likelihood estimation
• wrist drop
• chalk talk
• PCG
• radioactive half-life
• be low in
• swishest
• put up to(或 at,for) auction
• dovetail saw
• make(或stage) a comeback
• Scotch cousin
• deafen
• repopulate
• three-quarter back
• bricolages
• contraindication
• lose ground
• entrant
• bail bond
• bunfights
• give a stone and a beating to
• series comma
• Taffy
• sicca
• African millet
• shaslik
• S.E.T.I.
• misdealings
• sallowness
• red ant
• malapropism
• warehouse party
• Bourges process
• call by reference
• Elohists
• pochards
• CRC error
• stage-managed
• pit sth against
• oh yes
• ups and downs
• conveyorizes
• of home growth
• programmed checking
• closed ball
• arch sorner bead
• arrow arum
• Monocotyledoneae
• softlings
• meet someone's eye
• tellership
• acuminating
• sylvanite
• push / tip sb over the brink
• sweep through
• medallion man
• muddy the waters / the issue
• khaphs
• beyond the sea s
• the unruly member
• Montgomeryshire
• be out of touch (with sb)
• on the wings of the wind
• clothes hanger
• by necessity of circumstances
• water privilege
• professorships
• globocrat
• eyelinered
• D,MUS.
• from whose bourn e no traveller returns
• sijos
• hoier
• advocate
• run a check / test / experiment etc
• chef-d'oeuvre
• chowtime
• nedder
• theatric
• BAPCT
• criminalization
• furnish ... with
• bus-conductor
• moonwalkers
• wrongously
• wheelings
• solemnize a marriage
• easier
• lousiness
• hypokinesia
• antimony trioxide