last gasp

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The final gasp or breath a person takes before death.
    — Now the murdered man is drawing his last gasp.
  2. The point of death, or the last period of one's life. broadly
    — Such as feare God shall be strengthened to stand against all assaults of Satan; yea they shal continue and stand stedfast vnto the end, euen to the last gasp.
  3. The point at which something disappears or is destroyed; a last-gasp moment, attempt, etc. figuratively
    — Me thinks, (my Lord) you are grown something solemn on the sudden; since your Monopolies and Patents, which made your purse swell like a wet spunge, have been reduc’d to th’ last gasp.

词形变化

last gasps plural
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