| 单词 | last |
| 释义 | last I. intransitive verb 1. < the meeting lasted till late in the evening > < winter lasts from December to March — American Guide Series: Nevada > 2. a. (1) < that paint job will last a long time > < it is a book that will last — K.S.Latourette > (2) < half price while they last > b. < once I lasted without them for seven weeks — Monica Sheridan > < he won't last; he'll quit before the week's out > c. < he will not last very much longer — James Dennis > < couldn't have lasted … five minutes — Lyle Saxon > transitive verb 1. < if, of course, he lasted the war — Wirt Williams > — often used with out < cattle which could last out the drives — S.E.Fletcher > < could not last out the apprenticeship — Whitcomb Crichton > 2. < on these two courses is golf to last you a lifetime — Judson Philips > Synonyms: see continue II. 1. a. < the last one out will please shut the door > < the last two days of the month > < was saying some last word to her — Scott Fitzgerald > — sometimes used with an ordinal number to indicate position before the extreme end of a series < the second last paragraph on the page > b. < the last stronghold of Atlantic salmon in the United States — Pete Barrett > 2. < buried with impressive last rites > < comforted his last hours > specifically 3. < last week > < his last book > 4. a. (1) < dead last in the five-paper Chicago field — Newsweek > (2) < thieving is the last crime — Augusta Gregory > b. < all good men, and the last to condone any form of vice — Norman Douglas > 5. a. < the last explanation of all rational belief in concrete matters — Father Zeno > b. < exposed to the last term of contempt — Malcolm Cowley > < the last enduringness is reserved … for those odd chaps who discover things like the Pythagorean theorem — Clifton Fadiman > c. < every last square inch of good land — James Reach > < every last thing was the best of its kind — Frances G. Patton > Synonyms: < the last page of the book > < the last days of his life > < his last book was successful and he is planning another > < that's my last duchess painted on the wall — Robert Browning > latest, superlative of late, is often used in preference to last to indicate the most recent in situations in which late is unlikely to mean tardy or delayed < his latest book > < the latest news > < the latest fashion in dresses > concluding describes that which brings something to a conclusion < repeating his main points in his concluding remarks > final emphasizes definite, decisive closing or ending of a series or process < a final examination > < a final decree of divorce > < while sacrifices accepted as final emerged as nothing more than rehearsals for greater sacrifices to come — M.W.Straight > < judgment that is final, that settles a matter — John Dewey > terminal may indicate a limit or stopping point or mark beyond which a thing does not continue < a soldier on terminal leave > < the terminal r of bar and car > < a disease in its terminal stages > ultimate describes a last element, stage, or event that is the outcome of a long process, often the most remote or the most important development < the earth's refrigeration and the ultimate collapse of our solar system — L.P.Smith > < the word came into English from French but its ultimate source is Arabic > < control or occupation by Nazi forces of any islands of the Atlantic would jeopardize the immediate safety of portions of North and South America, and of the island possessions of the United States, and the ultimate safety of the continental United States itself — F.D.Roosevelt > eventual while lacking implications of finality in sequence, indicates inevitability or probability of future occurrence even if after a very long period, or the actual fact of occurrence often after a very long period < the belief that science shows man to be only an accident and an incident in a cosmic order that is moving toward eventual lifeless rest — C.C.Walcutt > < the eventual emergence of a science of grammar had been prepared for by generations of curious inquiry and practical endeavor — Benjamin Farrington > • - on one's last legs III. 1. < last came the foot soldiers and supply trains > < ranks last in my estimation > 2. < saw him last in New York > 3. < last, I wish to consider the economic outlook > IV. a. < her pen was busy to the last — F.L.Pattee > b. < these last could be scattered in case of a threatened air raid — Elmer Davis > c. < looked his last on the old homestead > < I've spoken my last on that subject > d. < would not hear the last of his story > < fought gamely to the last > < remained in enemy hands until the very last — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > < came home the last of March > e. < hated to see the last of her — Ellen Glasgow > < knew he would never hear the last of that mistake > f. < would inevitably come in an inglorious last — Osbert Lancaster > g. < the last of the tests was held today > h. • - at last V. a. b. c. VI. VII. transitive verb < last a shoe > intransitive verb |
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