at best

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at best 的定义

  1. Under the most favorable circumstances, as in At best we'll be just one week behind schedule, or Cleaning out the attic is a tedious job at best. This idiom, formerly also put as at the best, today is most often used in situations that are actually far from ideal, as in the examples above. [First half of 1300s] For an antonym, see at worst.

at best 近义词

at best

等同于 partly

更多at best例句

  1. The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
  2. Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
  3. Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.
  4. Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
  5. Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
  6. We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
  7. He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
  8. If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
  9. Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.
  10. But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.