| 单词 | the last of the mohicans |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe last of the Mohicans b. allusively. the last of the Mohicans [ < The Last of the Mohicans, the title of a novel (1826) by J. Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)] : the sole survivor(s) of a noble race or kind (sometimes ironic).Members of today's Mohican Nation (see note at sense A. 1a) dispute Cooper's representation of the Mohicans as having died out as an identifiable people. ΚΠ 1832 Boston Transcript 3 Apr. 2/1 We have seen the last of the Mohigans and the last of the cocked-hats, and we pray that we may be able to say, on the morrow we have seen the last of the snow-storms. 1835 C. Bradley in Ohio Archæol. & Hist. Q. (1906) 15 232 I jumped out upon the floor, all dressed, and found myself, with one exception, the last of the Mohicans. 1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 136 A hundred years after the blue stockings looked on Johnson as the last survivor, the last of the Mohicans of superstition, the Psychical Society can collect some 400 cases of haunted houses in England. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 Fourpence (the amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans). 1946 H. Howe We Happy Few 7 You can't pay attention to a thing that John Calcott says because he is the perfect product of the school—our own special Last of the Mohicans. 1982 ‘K. Blake’ Professionals: You'll be All Right ii. 14 ‘Here you are, in your own house, and looking like you've just come out of solitary.’ ‘You're the last one, Jack,’ said Bodie with a thin smile. ‘The Last of the Mohicans.’ < as lemmas |
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