英语词汇“a bridge too far”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P9. a bridge too far (a) a step beyond what is safe, sensible, or desirable; an act regarded as too drastic to take; (b) something that is likely to prove too difficult; a task that is beyond what one is expected or able to achieve.Popularized by the title of the 1977 film A Bridge too Far (based on the 1974 book of the same name), an account of the 1944 Allied defeat at Arnhem in a battle for a series of strategically important bridges, with allusion to a comment made by Lieutenant-General F. A. M. Browning (see quot. 1944).

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1944 F. A. M. Browning in R. E. Urquhart & W. Greatorex Arnhem (1958) 4 I think we might be going a bridge too far.]

1977 Economist 24 Sept. 16/2 Brave though he is to attempt it, monetary union in the absolute form Mr Jenkins is suggesting is all too likely to prove a bridge too far.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Feb. iv. 10/2 Young athletes who wished to compete as college freshmen had to score at least a 700 on the SAT... But even this meager score was often a bridge too far for poor students from dismal inner city schools.

2004 Nation 22 Nov. 6/1 What has the President..learned from Iraq? Did he learn it was a bridge too far?

单词	a bridge too far
释义	> as lemmas a bridge too far P9. a bridge too far (a) a step beyond what is safe, sensible, or desirable; an act regarded as too drastic to take; (b) something that is likely to prove too difficult; a task that is beyond what one is expected or able to achieve.Popularized by the title of the 1977 film A Bridge too Far (based on the 1974 book of the same name), an account of the 1944 Allied defeat at Arnhem in a battle for a series of strategically important bridges, with allusion to a comment made by Lieutenant-General F. A. M. Browning (see quot. 1944). ΚΠ 1944 F. A. M. Browning in R. E. Urquhart & W. Greatorex Arnhem (1958) 4 I think we might be going a bridge too far.] 1977 Economist 24 Sept. 16/2 Brave though he is to attempt it, monetary union in the absolute form Mr Jenkins is suggesting is all too likely to prove a bridge too far. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Feb. iv. 10/2 Young athletes who wished to compete as college freshmen had to score at least a 700 on the SAT... But even this meager score was often a bridge too far for poor students from dismal inner city schools. 2004 Nation 22 Nov. 6/1 What has the President..learned from Iraq? Did he learn it was a bridge too far? extracted from bridgen.¹ < as lemmas
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