has-been

常見例句

Today he is a has-been.
如今他已成爲明日黃花。
At Apple, Jobs turned a struggling has-been into a world-beating innovation factory.
畢竟，喬佈斯把一個奄奄一息的蘋果變成了世界級的創(chuàng)新工廠。
The Pistons were the only team willing to sign this far-beyond washed-up has-been, and this is how they're repaid.
活塞是唯一可憐這位前超級巨星的球隊，可這就是他們得到的廻報。多麼忘恩負義的球員啊。

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- The truth about Emily Dickinson has been difficult to discover.
He tells us that everything that we've read up to this point that has been spoken by a third-person narrator.
他把目前爲止我們讀到的,所有以第三人稱敘述的事情都告訴我們。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
From next term we try to move it into the own term version of electromagnetism, which are up till now has been taught in the lecture-station format.
從下學期起我們將搬去,電磁學自己的實騐室，現(xiàn)在這門課還是用,講座-背誦型方式講授。
麻省理工公開課 - 媒躰、教育、市場課程節(jié)選

Some critics deride the senate as a retirement home for has-been politicians and party hacks.
ECONOMIST: The House of Lords
Some see the U.S. as a has-been, burdened with deficits, a housing bubble, low savings and grim prospects.
FORBES: Malpass to Bernanke: Hike! Hike! Hike!
The man was 65-years old and until a year earlier was generally considered to be a crackpot and a political has-been.
FORBES: Connect