dying gasp

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The last breath taken before death.
  2. The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive. figuratively
    — To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.

词形变化

dying gasps plural
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