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单词 last-ditch
释义

last-ditch

/ˌlɑːs(t)ˈdɪtʃ /
adjective
Denoting a final attempt to achieve something after all else has failed: a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock...
  • The smear campaigns were shown to be just that - the last-ditch effort of desperate individuals to throw the vote.
  • A year ago today, she was undergoing a transatlantic bone marrow transplant in a last-ditch attempt to beat leukaemia.
  • Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners.

Synonyms

last-minute, last-chance, eleventh-hour, last-resort, desperate, frantic, frenzied, wild, struggling, straining, final, extreme, all-out, do-or-die
informal last-gasp
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