might-have-been

• n. 本可实现或发生的事

英英释义

Noun:

1. an event that could have occurred but never did

经典引文

• The historian has little use for questions of might-have-been.

  出自： E. H. Gombrich

• It was instructive to have the opportunity of hearing this gifted might-have-been.

  出自：Listener