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单词 would-have-been
释义 would-have-been, a.
[The verbal phrase used attributively.]
That would have liked to be, that aimed at being, (something specified).
1744Eliza Heywood Female Spect. v. (1748) I. 233 Her penetrating eyes immediately discovered her would-have-been gallant.Ibid. vii. II. 29 The would-have-been member was ready to burst with inward rage at this sneer.1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury xxxiv, The would-have-been assassin of Louis the Fifteenth.1901Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 7/1 The hunt goes forward after the would-have-been invaders of Natal.
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