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单词 dark horse
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dark horseˌdark ˈhorse noun [countable] Examples
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  • And then there was the dark horse in the field.
  • Beware the ventriloquist, the dark horse, whose thrown voice juggles the truth.
  • Patterson, winner of the Euro 250 race at Mondello Park, could be the dark horse in these races.
1someone who is not well known, and who surprises people by winning a competition:  In the 1955 golf championship, dark horse Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan.2British English someone who does not tell people much about themselves, but who has surprising qualities or abilities:  She’s a dark horse. I didn’t know she’d written a novel.
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