| 释义 |
ring down (or up) the curtain1Cause a theatre curtain to be lowered (or raised): they’ll have to ring down the curtain...- They rang down the curtain for the last time Sunday.
1.1Mark the end (or the beginning) of an enterprise or event: the sendoff rings down the curtain on a major chapter in television history...- We watch for a time, until we're numb, or bored, or angry at the repetitive misery - and then, in the back of the head, cue those violins, the sunset mood, the irrational affirmation that allows us to ring down the curtain.
- And as criticism of the system mounts by the day across the football world, it may well be that this season's opening will prove the last before FIFA ring down the curtain.
- Sumter rang down the curtain on the aristocratic republic the founders had created.
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