| 词汇 | non-starter |
| 释义 | non-starter noun[ C ] informaluk /ˌnɒnˈstɑː.tər/ us /ˌnɑːnˈstɑːr.t̬ɚ/ an idea, plan, or person with no chance of success: 无成功希望的人（或想法、计划） The proposal was a non-starter from the beginning because there was no possibility of funding.这项提案从一开始就不切实际，因为不可能获得资金支持。 someone or something that is not successful failureThe shuttle launch was a complete failure. successThe operation was a success. turkeyI really wanted to like it, but that show ended up being a real turkey. clunkerUSThat pitch was a real clunker. bombUSHis website was one of the biggest dotcom bombs in the history of the internet. dudMy charger doesn't work - I think I've got a dud. Failures another/the final nail in the coffinidiom bloodbath brain freeze breakdown busted flush car crash false dawn fiasco flameout flop foul (something) up hash lemon loser parody post-crash pratfall reversal slim pickings slush pile non-starter | Business Englishnon-starter noun[ C ] informaluk /ˌnɒnˈstɑːtər/us an idea, plan, or person that has no chance of success: The proposal was a non-starter from the beginning. Examples of non-starternon-starter Fictitious play between transparent agents seems a definite non-starter for our understanding of this process. The result was that the façade of legitimacy of the new constitution was a non-starter. So the materialist's new parity response is just as much a non-starter as is the topic-neutral approach. But this argument is a non-starter. Clearly this is a non-starter. In short, it looked a political non-starter. The idea has gradually sifted through that that policy is a non-starter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are other human reasons why a local sales tax is apparently a non-starter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That must be termed a precondition and makes any further meaningful negotiations a non-starter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For us, data protection must be activated, otherwise this agreement is a non-starter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The multilateral idea was a non-starter, not only for practical reasons but reasons of language, command, temperament and nationalities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So why this hypocrisy of talking in terms of what is a non-starter and a very unreal situation? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one can talk in terms of only 2% funds getting to their intended recipients, then this policy has proved to be a non-starter. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is a non-starter so far as we are concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, to visit each installation owned by the electricity industry would make the task almost a non-starter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of non-starter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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