breathe one's last

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To die. euphemistic,idiomatic
    — Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
  2. To be defeated. uncommon
    — For the longest while, the loss didn't seem real. For going on four hours, I'd done pretty much what I wanted to on that mound. I couldn't just shut that off, now that we had finally breathed our last.

词形变化

breathes one's last present,singular,third-person breathing one's last participle,present breathed one's last participle,past breathed one's last past

词汇关系

近义词
breathe one's last breath draw one's last breath

词源

Perhaps first used in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3 (c. 1591). Compare breathe (“to live”).
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