also-ran

also-ran['ɔ:lsəuræn]

• n.
  • (在赛马或赛狗中没取得前三名的)落选的马(或狗)，未获名次的马(或狗)
  • 难得获胜的运动员(或队)
  • [口语](赛跑、竞赛、竞争等的)失败者，输者；(竞选的)落选者
  • [口语]无足轻重的人(或竞争者)；庸碌之辈，平庸的人，庸才；凡人；没出息的人；劣等品[此词也可用作集合名词]
  • [用复数]配角，跑龙套

• appearance
• see the light at the end of the tunnel
• wash one's hands
• Ionospherics
• St Martin's Day
• guilders
• Mother of Presidents
• backselling
• angitis
• ability groupings
• as lief
• Masada
• haruspical
• talk sth↔over (with sb)
• wyte
• diode forward voltage
• extinction coefficient
• synopsizing
• convergence phase control
• recrystallized
• Eloyse
• splitsaws
• sociobiology
• overmans
• double-time
• passivations
• hobble
• Christly
• lithophyte
• autocade
• Internetters
• no dated
• lay a pinch of salt on someone's tail
• cyberworld
• convergent-divergent nozzle
• effeminatenesses
• lavendery
• silence is golden
• cholestases
• day-trippers
• pothunting
• Westinghouse Electric
• innoxiously
• presbyterate
• phonemic systems
• arbuscules
• disappointment
• bioburden
• molluscoidal
• hortatory
• munis
• interrupt signal
• detain at
• homophobias
• sexy
• lurkingly
• matriarchal
• charcoal black
• in light
• Rockwell hardness test
• purificator
• bombazeen
• importability
• nontoxic
• ivors
• la-la land
• Leschetizky, Theodor
• punicaceaes
• switch on
• luniest
• Slavonians
• defendalized
• take a hammering
• groenendaels
• as far back as
• eligibility rule
• ironbounds
• smooth out
• into the act
• wattles
• araneose
• rudimentarily
• in fortune's lap
• order ... around
• embusque
• emplectite
• Asti spumante
• bullpen
• have dealings with
• in the dumps
• double-digit
• ferric arsenate
• electronic intelligence
• socius
• roach
• Ascension Islander
• as good as gold
• let out sth
• hermitish
• crib-bitten或-bit