| 单词 | at the last gasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat the last gasp (one's) last gasp: the final attempt to draw breath before dying. at the last gasp: at the point of death; in later use frequently figurative; cf. last-gasp adj. at last adv., adj., and n.4 Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > point of death's gateOE the gate(s of death1340 lasta1382 (in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483 death's door1515 the valley of the shadow of death1535 (one's) last gasp1564 death door1601 extremity1602 on one's last legs1614 verge1750 the Great (Continental) Divide1908 the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes throwingeOE death throec1300 throec1300 stour1340 bale-stourc1400 gasping1440 agonya1500 (one's) last gasp1564 death flurry1831 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] > breath > last (one's) last gasp1564 1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xxiii. f. 104v It should not greue her to loose her life, so she mighte tarye with her husband to the laste gaspe. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. v. 147 Retayning a valiant and inuincible minde vnto the last gaspe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. v. 53 His Fortunes all lye speechlesse, and his name Is at last gaspe . View more context for this quotation 1655 E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 338 At this instant he [sc. Cromwell] is like one at ye laste gaspe, full of convulsions, laying hould on what commes next him. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 25 In those diseases,..[there may be] the highest mental Enjoyments and Sufferings, even to the last Gasp. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 805 He that finds One drop of heav'n's sweet mercy in his cup, Can dig, beg, rot and perish, well content, So he may wrap himself in honest rags At his last gasp. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles vi. 180 He left her at the last gasp; he knew not whether to regard her as alive or dead. 1851 R. Hussey Rise Papal Power iii. 158 The authority of the Augusti breathed on that day its last gasp in Rome. 1902 Daily Chron. 20 Dec. 5/2 Another ancient industry is at its last gasp—viz., the hand-knitting of Kilmarnock bonnets. 1956 S. Beckett Waiting for Godot (1959) i. 26 Looks at his last gasp to me. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 19/1 His hard-nosed self-promotion [was] at odds with his elders' attachment to the last gasps of hippiedom or the first breaths of punk. < as lemmas |
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