词汇 | whole-nine-yards |
释义 | the whole nine yardsidiominformal mainly US everything you can possibly want, have, or do in a particular situation : (在特定情形下)能够想要的;能够拥有的;能够做到的(任何东西) When I was little, my family always had lots of pets - dogs, cats, hamsters, fish, rabbits - the whole nine yards.我小时候家里总是有许多宠物:狗、猫、仓鼠、鱼、兔子,应有尽有。 The weather was terrible but I wanted to go the whole nine yards and get to the top of the mountain.天气糟透了,但我还是想咬咬牙一路登上山顶。 Continue & last bash on bubble away carry (something) on cease cont. echo immortality immortally in the makingidiom insist on doing something isochronous prosecution protract protraction push ahead push on soldier span spin stretch Examples of the whole nine yardsthe whole nine yards This book includes an early use of the phrase thewholenineyards. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The phrase joins thewholenineyards as one that probably derives from some form of measurement but which is unlikely ever to be definitively pinned down. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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