单词 | forlorn hope |
释义 | Word Frequency forlorn hopenoun 1. a hopeless or desperate enterprise 2. a faint hope 3. obsolete a group of soldiers assigned to an extremely dangerous duty Word origin C16 (in the obsolete sense): changed (by folk etymology) from Dutch verloren hoop lost troop, from verloren, past participle of verliezen to lose + hoop troop (literally: heap) |
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