| 词汇 | abortively |
| 释义 | abortively adverb uk /əˈbɔː.tɪv.li/ us /əˈbɔːr.t̬ɪv.li/ If something is done abortively, it has to stop because it has failed: Her mother had tried, abortively, to persuade her to follow her career as a doctor. He abortively attempted to break away from the group on three occasions. The encampment was twice abortively attacked by enemy fighters but that had not dissuaded them from trying again. The prospect of a merger was first raised, albeit abortively, last year. A group of politicians abortively proposed renaming the capital city. Unsuccessful (people and things) abortive achiever be dead in the wateridiom bootless bootlessly fruitlessness frustrated futile futilely go/get/head nowhereidiom on the ropesidiom redemption rope small-time small-timer up and downidiom vain vainly washed up you and whose army?idiom |
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