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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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