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

last stand n. (frequently in military contexts) an act of determinedly holding or defending a position against a (more powerful) opposing force; a final show of resistance or protest; esp. in to make one's (also a) last stand; cf. stand n.¹ 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > [noun]

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1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Ezek. xi. 23) 421 There he made his last stand, to see if they would meet him with intreaties of peace, that he might stop or step back.

1743 C. Packe Ανκογραϕια 55 This place..was the Britains main Camp when Cassivelanus came to their Assistance, and collecting them into one Body put himself at the head of them, and made their last Stand.

1829 Museum Foreign Lit., Sci. & Art July 83/1 [Hope] faintly revived in Vernon's bosom... But feeble indeed was the reviving struggle—an expiring effort! a last stand against despair.

1873 T. N. Burke Irel. & Irish 41 In..1798, the ‘year of the troubles’.., some ninety Wexford men..made their last stand on the banks of the river Boyne.

1989 Scots Mag. Mar. 587 Pictures of ‘last stands’ or soldiers in their moments of sharpest trial..epitomised everything that was good about..Victorian manhood.

2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Oct. a25 Some are now invoking the Alamo and Custer's Last Stand—glorious defeats, fighting for a noble cause.

单词	last stand
释义	> as lemmas last stand last stand n. (frequently in military contexts) an act of determinedly holding or defending a position against a (more powerful) opposing force; a final show of resistance or protest; esp. in to make one's (also a) last stand; cf. stand n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > [noun] stand1555 last stand1660 1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Ezek. xi. 23) 421 There he made his last stand, to see if they would meet him with intreaties of peace, that he might stop or step back. 1743 C. Packe Ανκογραϕια 55 This place..was the Britains main Camp when Cassivelanus came to their Assistance, and collecting them into one Body put himself at the head of them, and made their last Stand. 1829 Museum Foreign Lit., Sci. & Art July 83/1 [Hope] faintly revived in Vernon's bosom... But feeble indeed was the reviving struggle—an expiring effort! a last stand against despair. 1873 T. N. Burke Irel. & Irish 41 In..1798, the ‘year of the troubles’.., some ninety Wexford men..made their last stand on the banks of the river Boyne. 1989 Scots Mag. Mar. 587 Pictures of ‘last stands’ or soldiers in their moments of sharpest trial..epitomised everything that was good about..Victorian manhood. 2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Oct. a25 Some are now invoking the Alamo and Custer's Last Stand—glorious defeats, fighting for a noble cause. extracted from lastadv.adj.n.⁴ < as lemmas
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