单词 | might-have-been |
释义 | might-have-been (once / 69937 pages) n WORD FAMILY might-have-been USAGE EXAMPLESJews, for Sebald, personify the very essence of transience and extraterritoriality, residents of a might-have-been world that has known better days. The New Yorker(Aug 25, 2016) And the more I looked on, it occurred to me, it was the might-have-been that was the most important. BBC(Dec 21, 2015) Mostly, though, the play exists in an eternal purgatory of unanswerable questions and might-have-been conjectures. New York Times(Feb 12, 2015) n an event that could have occurred but never did Hyper event something that happens at a given place and time |
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