| 单词 | lost cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslost cause lost cause n. a cause (cause n. 11) that has failed or that is unlikely to succeed; spec. the cause of the South in the American Civil War (1861–65). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > something unlikely to succeed lost cause1865 starter1946 no-hoper1976 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Confederate cause lost cause1865 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Pref. p. xix Oxford…Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! 1866 E. A. Pollard (title) The lost cause. 1901 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 231 You testify by honoring two of us, once soldiers of the Lost Cause. 1914 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 378 Oxford has often been called ‘the home of lost causes’, or, as Mr. Cram puts it, ‘of causes not lost but gone before’. 1933 C. Mackenzie (title) The lost cause. A Jacobite play. 1938 J. Betjeman Oxf. Univ. Chest v. 112 Wytham and Binsey are the less hackneyed of Oxford's lost causes on the edge of Oxford. 1940 C. F. Adams And Sudden Death xvii. 155 Why should I go round championing a lost cause? 1948 D. Wecter in J. G. Kerwin Civil–Military Relationships in Amer. Life 31 Their late adversaries, the United Confederate Veterans, licked their wounds and dwelt lovingly upon the Lost Cause. 1949 D. S. Freeman in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore p. viii Perhaps every land that has the tradition of a Lost Cause builds its monuments in a certain sentimental determination and seeks through its memorials both to exemplify and to perpetuate its ideal. < as lemmas |
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