英语词汇“would-be”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	would-be
释义	would-be I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ adjective Etymology: from the phrase would be : desiring or professing to be : wishing to be reputed < good musicianship will enable a would-be conductor … to improve himself — Warwick Braithwaite > < retaliatory power is one strong deterrent to a would-be aggressor — D.D.Eisenhower > — often used disparagingly < looked like what he was, a would-be fighter who … had nowhere to go — Hamilton Basso > < turn lesson notes into would-be textbooks and go in vain the round of the publishers — James Britton > II. noun (-s) : one who wishes to be or to be reputed something one is not — usually used disparagingly < compelled to listen to has-beens and would-bes trying to put over bad plays — A.L.Burt > < nothing but these would-bes in New York getups, drinking tea — Sinclair Lewis >
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