at the last gasp
基本解釋
- 最后,最后關頭;奄奄一息時
英漢例句
- Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath.
現(xiàn)在愛的臨終呼吸發(fā)出最后喘息。 - Woods fell to the ground at the last gasp by venom dropped into his mouth.
嗚茲則被滴進嘴里的毒液整得倒地不起。 - The enemy are at their last gasp.
敵人在做垂死的掙扎。 - Senator John McCain, the Republicans' 2008 candidate, and Sarah Palin, his running-mate, voiced similar misgivings: better to have helped the rebels clinch their victory when they appeared to be on a roll than come to their defence when they were at their last gasp on the edge of defeat.
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