also-ran

单词also-ran

基本解释

n.: 失败者；（尤指竞赛或竞选的）失利者
网络: 落选者；落选的马；落选之马

权威解释

• 失败者；（尤指竞赛或竞选的）失利者:

  a person who is not successful, especially in a competition or an election

英汉解释

• 【赛马】落选的马

• (比赛、竞争、竞选等的)失败者

• 无足轻重的人

• 〔体〕落选者

• 落选之马;落选者

词性分析

• 复数：also-rans

同义词

n.loserfailureno-hoperflopdud

反义词

n.winner

例句

• We also ran these with a 30-user load to determine whether performance continued to increase with additional users.

  我们还以30个用户的负载运行这些测试，以确定性能是否会随着附加的用户而持续增加。

• He also ran errands for the ward and in his spare time made me a cigarette lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle cartridge.

  他也替病房打杂，还利用空闲时间用奥军步枪子弹壳给我做了一个打火机。

• Democrats said they do not expect Nader, who also ran as an independent in 2004, to have much of an impact.

  民主党表示他的参选不会造成多大影响，纳德在2004年也曾以独立候选人身份参选。

• We also ran regressions with WEO forecast changes using the same set of countries that we used for the Consensus Forecasts sample.

  本人们也跑回归展望的转变与运用统一套的国度，本人们用于遍及预期的样品。

• He taught everyone to see the developing world not as an also-ran but as a vortex of innovation and creativity.

  他让大众明白，不要把发展中国家看做失败者，而是看做革新和创造力的中心。

• We also ran into a few issues with apps hanging and the Wi-Fi connection suddenly vanishing without explanation.

  我们在使用一些应用程序时会挂掉，Wi-Fi也会突然莫名其妙的断掉。

• For some people, lateness is nothing more than a habit learned in childhood from a parent or an older brother or sister who also ran late.

  对于有些人来说，迟到不过是童年时代从经常迟到的父母或哥哥姐姐那里学到的一种习惯而已。

• About a decade ago, Hyundai was a global also-ran -- a maker of small, cheap, no-frills cars with a reputation for breaking down.

  大约10年前，现代在全球市场上还只是一个无名之辈，生产小型、廉价普通汽车，这些汽车还经常出故障。

• Happily, the lab also ran a test to see how I react to real-world financial decisions. That produced a different picture.

  令我欣慰的是，实验室还就我对现实世界财务决策的反应情况进行了测试。结果却不同。

• The clincher was that Skype also ran on dozens of mobile phones, portable game consoles and other internet appliances.

  起到决定性作用的是，Skype同时可以在多款移动电话，便携式游戏机和其它网络设备上使用。