SUCCEED IN DOING somethingFAILto succeed or fail without help from anyone else 自生自灭,成败全靠自己
They don’t give you a lot of guidance – you’re just left to sink or swim, really.
他们不会给你很多指导——就让你自生自灭,真的。
Examples from the Corpus
sink or swim• Some people advocate leaving the jobless to sink or swim.• A case of sink or swim.• Now it was sink or swim.• She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim.• Only one person really cared whether he sank or swam, and he was far off in Paris.• It was sink or swim as a classroomteacher.• The Ohio bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselves.• When a promisingapprentice loses his claim it is usually sink or swim time.• But it is a collectivemachine because they all sink or swim with her.