释义 |
might-have-beensˈmight-have-ˌbeens noun [plural] - Byways of history, particularly might-have-beens, also suit the form well.
- It takes some imagination to share the contradictions, the unrealised hopes, the might-have-beens, of the past.
- Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection.
- This book is not concerned, however, with might-have-beens but with the facts as they were, so far as can be told.
- We like to think about the might-have-beens.
things that you wish had happened in the past but which never did |