also-ran

/awl-soh-ran/US // ˈɔl soʊˌræn //

也有的人,兼职,也有的,也有的说

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

noununsuccessful challenger

Synonyms

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.