:to be able to do something well enough能办好(某事) — usually used in negative statements通常用于否定句
After two weeks at the new job, he decided that he just couldn't cut it. [=that he couldn't do the job well enough to succeed]新工作干了两周后,他认定自己干不好。
They didn't think that I would cut it as an actress.他们认为我当不成优秀女演员。
Everyone's using bold colors to decorate their homes. Plain white walls just don't cut it anymore. [=plain white walls are not acceptable anymore]大家都在使用醒目的颜色装饰房间,纯白色的墙已经不再受欢迎。
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◊ People use the informal phrase any way you cut it to say that something is true no matter how you look at it or think about it.随你怎么看
Any way you cut it, it was a pretty good year for our company.随你怎么想,这都是我们公司非常成功的一年。
She's one of the world's best tennis players any way you cut it.不管你怎么看,她都是一位世界顶级的网球选手。