| 释义 |
as good as ——1Very nearly ——: the editor as good as told him he was lucky to get £50 a week...- He knows his party is dying - or is as good as dead.
- Charlie is as good as dead, and yet they manage to bring him round.
- It looked as good as dead but at the very tip they were these unmistakable shoots of green leaves.
1.1Used of a result which will inevitably follow: if we pass on the information, he’s as good as dead...- After a lull of about two months, the two sides resumed fighting, and the escalation of tension has reached the point where the December agreement is as good as dead.
- Yates was faced with the first of two terrible decisions: should he abandon his friend - whom they both knew was as good as dead - or try to get him down the mountain?
- He added his second in the 76th minutes and when Kevin Williamson added the third a minute later the game was as good as dead.
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