has-been

英 ['hæzbiːn] 美 ['hæzbiːn]

• n. <口>曾经盛极一时的人； 过时的人

英英释义

Noun:

1. someone who is no longer popular

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The outdated contract has now been extinguished.
   这份过时的合同现已被终止了。
2. Slavery is an antique notion that has no place in the modern world.
   奴隶制是一种过时的概念，在当今的现代社会已经没有市场了。

经典引文

• A doddering and reactionary has-been who ought to have been interred long ago.

  出自： I. Wallace

词汇搭配

• There has been many a peck of salt eaten since. 年深日久,已经好多年...

近反义词

【近义词】

• back-number 过期的