fag end

单词fag end

基本解释

n.: 烟蒂；香烟头；末尾
网络: 绳索的散端；末端；废品

权威解释

• 烟蒂；香烟头:

  the last part of a cigarette that is left after it has been smoked

• （尤指不重要或索然无味的）结尾，末尾:

  the last part of sth, especially when it is less important or interesting

英汉解释

• 末尾

• 〔美俚〕上当,吃亏

• 残渣,废渣

• 绳索的散端,末端,零头;烟头;布头(等)

例句

• No waste steam or effluent is yielded out, a little fag end can. . .

  无有毒废气、废水产生，废渣少量，可直接外排。

• In the fag-end of its 12-year reign, Labour has lost even core supporters.

  那些最坚定的支持者也在它12年统治生涯即将结束的时候，离它而去。

• Labour optimists adduce 1992, when a fag-end prime minister scored an unexpected triumph.

  工党中的乐观者回想到1992年——一个不起眼的首相赢得意外的胜利。