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

last frontier n. (a) originally and chiefly U.S. that part of a country, region, etc., which is the last to be settled, explored, or developed; spec. (a nickname for) the state of Alaska; (b) (in extended use) the most extreme limit of something; the one thing yet to be explored or overcome.

1872 W. D. Kelley Speeches, Addr. & Lett. on Industr. & Financial Questions 153 Westward, to the last frontier, there is no village, however small, in which the free school is not open to every child.

1907 Advance 27 June 806/1 Alaska, our last frontier, where the fields are not as yet fields of golden grain, but fields of ‘grains of gold’.

1930 Flying Mag. Feb. 48/1 With the adventure-minded youth of the world turning to aviation as the last frontier, this book comes to fill a timely and very practical need.

1977 Newsweek (Nexis) 23 May 76 Space is really the last frontier, and the settling of a frontier only takes place when women are involved.

1979 W. W. Cochrane Developm. Amer. Agric. xiii. 265 In the period 1870-90..immigrants from Britain, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries tried their luck at farming on the last frontier—the subhumid Plains and the Great Plains.

1997 Sci. Amer. Oct. 95/1 Many far-sighted shippers view the coordination of different types of transportation as the last frontier in boosting productivity.

2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec. c4/3 We bend before Kennedys, Bushes,..Clintons... But there was hope that the ‘Last Frontier’, as Alaska calls itself, would remain a final holdout against hereditary politics.

单词	last frontier
释义	> as lemmas last frontier last frontier n. (a) originally and chiefly U.S. that part of a country, region, etc., which is the last to be settled, explored, or developed; spec. (a nickname for) the state of Alaska; (b) (in extended use) the most extreme limit of something; the one thing yet to be explored or overcome. Π 1872 W. D. Kelley Speeches, Addr. & Lett. on Industr. & Financial Questions 153 Westward, to the last frontier, there is no village, however small, in which the free school is not open to every child. 1907 Advance 27 June 806/1 Alaska, our last frontier, where the fields are not as yet fields of golden grain, but fields of ‘grains of gold’. 1930 Flying Mag. Feb. 48/1 With the adventure-minded youth of the world turning to aviation as the last frontier, this book comes to fill a timely and very practical need. 1977 Newsweek (Nexis) 23 May 76 Space is really the last frontier, and the settling of a frontier only takes place when women are involved. 1979 W. W. Cochrane Developm. Amer. Agric. xiii. 265 In the period 1870-90..immigrants from Britain, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries tried their luck at farming on the last frontier—the subhumid Plains and the Great Plains. 1997 Sci. Amer. Oct. 95/1 Many far-sighted shippers view the coordination of different types of transportation as the last frontier in boosting productivity. 2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec. c4/3 We bend before Kennedys, Bushes,..Clintons... But there was hope that the ‘Last Frontier’, as Alaska calls itself, would remain a final holdout against hereditary politics. extracted from lastadv.adj.n.⁴ < as lemmas
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