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单词 has-been
释义 has-been, n. (a.)|ˈhæzbiːn|
[perf. tense of be v.]
1. a. One that has been but is no longer: a person or thing whose career or efficiency belongs to the past, or whose best days are over. Also hasbeen.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 34 Being now but umwhile, and as an hes-beene.1786Burns Inventory 8 My han' afore's a gude auld has-been.1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 820 John Jones may be described as ‘one of the has beens.’1853B. F. Taylor Jan. & June (1871) 206 Dilapidated ‘has-beens’, and despised ‘used-to-be's’.1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 180 'Er's a good owd 'as bin.1904Philadelphia Even. Tel. 9 Nov. 5 Parker and his party are among the has beens.1905B. Tarkington In Arena 3 I'll potter along trying to look knowing and secretive, like the rest of the has-beens.1914G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 70 The obsolete notions that made most of our relations a sort of premature has-beens.1929Psyche Apr. 27 The age when physicians are divided into Has⁓beens and Neverwozzers.1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) vii. 104 When I retire I'm just a has-been.
b. attrib. or adj.
1819Hermit in London II. 133 A has-been battered beau.
2. pl. Old times. U.S.
1904W. H. Smith Promoters v. 91, I met old Bishop Slosher..and just for has-beens I took him to lunch with me.
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