单词 | in the final analysis |
释义 | > as lemmasin the final (also last) analysis in the final (also last) analysis [after French en dernière analyse (1770)] : when everything has been considered; basically. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > in the end or at last at lastlOE at the lastlOE afinec1325 in the lasta1382 for conclusionc1386 an-endc1390 the lasta1400 in (the) finea1500 at conclusiona1513 in conclusiona1513 at long last1523 at length1525 in (rarely at, upon) the upshot1577 in the final (also last) analysis1786 in the death1958 at the end of the day1974 1777 W. Hooper tr. C.-A. Helvétius Treat. Man II. x. xi. 446 From whence I observe, that as this interest, in its last analysis, takes its source in corporeal sensibility; that this sensibility is consequently the sole principle of human ideas and actions.] 1786 P. Mac Mahon tr. C. Casaux Thoughts Mechanism of Societies 81 Such will be, in the last analysis, the results of the underworkings of nature. 1794 J. Barlow tr. J.-P. Brissot de Warville Commerce Amer. with Europe i. 28 Thus, in the final analysis, the power of furnishing at a low price belongs incontestably to countries so favoured. 1822 A. Kohlmann Unitarianism Examined II. 29 He says and unsays..all to no purpose; because, in the final analysis he discovers, that all his schemes serve no other end, [etc.]. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 648/1 The loveliest doll in the last analysis is merely sawdust. 1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 605/1 In the final analysis, there are two types of program music: that which is good music regardless of the program; and that which is poor music even with a ‘good’ program. 1957 L. F. Brosnahan Genes & Phonemes 12 The total experience incorporated in a language, in the vocabulary, morphology and syntax, must, in the last analysis, have been gained through the senses. 2005 Cheshire Life Aug. 280/3 No matter how picture-postcard pretty a property appears to be, in the final analysis if the plumbing doesn't work you're likely to end up wading through trouble. < as lemmas |
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