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

P1. to last the course: to succeed in maintaining speed, form, etc., for the duration of a race or contest. Frequently figurative: to endure or survive some trial; to make it through to the end. Cf. to stay the course at stay v.¹ 17b.

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1872 Graphic 16 Mar. /1 Mr. Houblon is a very light man compared with the heavy crew behind him, and we doubt very much whether his stroke will be long enough, and whether he will last the course.

1884 Observer 22 June 3/2 This filly will hardly last the course.

1906 Nation (N.Y.) 27 Sept. 255/1 Other prominent English oarsmen, who asserted..that the Cambridge crew had not been exercised sufficiently,..and that they would not last the course.

1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iv. 85 I had meant to speak for ten minutes and must now go on for forty, and, though I've been racking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simply cannot last the course.

1967 Spectator 27 Jan. 116/2 The British [chess] champion..did respectably..and the fifty-six-year-old Israeli veteran..did not last the course very well.

1984 R. Pilcher Voices in Summer (1986) iv. 114 When Philip was so ill..well, I couldn't have lasted the course without May.

2008 Sunday Express (Nexis) 12 Oct. No doubt..[she] will be ready to flash her ruby rock at all those naysayers who doubted the pair's romance would last the course.

单词	to last the course
释义	> as lemmas to last the course P1. to last the course: to succeed in maintaining speed, form, etc., for the duration of a race or contest. Frequently figurative: to endure or survive some trial; to make it through to the end. Cf. to stay the course at stay v.¹ 17b. ΚΠ 1872 Graphic 16 Mar. /1 Mr. Houblon is a very light man compared with the heavy crew behind him, and we doubt very much whether his stroke will be long enough, and whether he will last the course. 1884 Observer 22 June 3/2 This filly will hardly last the course. 1906 Nation (N.Y.) 27 Sept. 255/1 Other prominent English oarsmen, who asserted..that the Cambridge crew had not been exercised sufficiently,..and that they would not last the course. 1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iv. 85 I had meant to speak for ten minutes and must now go on for forty, and, though I've been racking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simply cannot last the course. 1967 Spectator 27 Jan. 116/2 The British [chess] champion..did respectably..and the fifty-six-year-old Israeli veteran..did not last the course very well. 1984 R. Pilcher Voices in Summer (1986) iv. 114 When Philip was so ill..well, I couldn't have lasted the course without May. 2008 Sunday Express (Nexis) 12 Oct. No doubt..[she] will be ready to flash her ruby rock at all those naysayers who doubted the pair's romance would last the course. extracted from lastv.¹ < as lemmas
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