PHRASAL VERB 没有…也行,没有…而设法对付过去 If you do without something you need, want, or usually have, you are able to survive, continue, or succeed although you do not have it.
We can't do without the help of your organisation... 我们不能没有你们机构的帮助。
We've had a bit more money and that, and the baby doesn't do without. 我们还有一点钱什么的,婴儿没有这些不行。
PHRASAL VERB 情愿没有;用不着 If you say that you could do without something, you mean that you would prefer not to have it or it is of no benefit to you.
He could do without her rhetorical questions at five o'clock in the morning. 他真不愿早上 5 点就听到她一遍遍地反问。
...those who love France but can do without the natives... 喜欢法国却看不上法国人的人们
Like all teenagers there's one thing she'd rather do without — spots. 和所有十几岁的孩子一样,有一样东西她宁可没有——青春痘。