- 看过 also-ran 的人也看了 :
- loser
- failure
- nonstarter
also-ran 的定义
- Sports. a contestant who fails to win or to place among the first three finishers.an athlete or team whose performance in competition is rarely, if ever, a winning or near-winning one.
- Informal. a person who loses a contest, election, or other competition.
- Informal. a person who attains little or no success: For every great artist there are a thousand also-rans.
also-ran 近义词
unsuccessful challenger
更多also-ran例句
- Indeed, some of those troops who ran away from defending Mosul were already American-trained.
- And keep in mind that when Huckabee ran for president in 2008, he won the Iowa caucuses.
- The sheriff charged them with truancy, and then he and his officers ran them out of town.
- “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him,” said Lott.
- EURO was founded by David Duke, the ex-Klansman who ran for Louisiana governor in 1991.
- Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
- Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
- Some of those halls that Mr. Meadow Mouse mentioned ran right out beneath the surface of the garden.
- They ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.
- He was holding his big head high in the air, like a giraffe, and gazing proudly about him as he ran.