nonstarter

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基本解释

• n.弃权出赛的马；早就无成功希望的人；未开始的人；不被接受的计划或提案

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Anything short of that, he said, is a “nonstarter.
  他说任何缺少这一条件的议案都不会成功。
• As these large and complex files became more the norm, the art of working on them manually was often a nonstarter for programmers and analysts.
  当这些大且复杂的文件变得更规范时，对程序员和分析员来说手工处理通常是不可能完成的。
• Any talk of residuals, past or future, was simply a nonstarter.
  任何关于剩余报酬的谈判，不管是过去的还是将来的，希望都微乎其微。

权威例句

• Krugmanomics was a nonstarter because the gold standard encourages fiscal and monetary discipline, not recklessness.
  FORBES: What Are Treasuries Really Saying? Nothing About Washington
• Exempting China and other countries from complying with new sanctions that target Iran's energy sector is a nonstarter.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Game-changing chance
• Such a union, bureaucratically run from Brussels, is ultimately a nonstarter on a continent so utterly diverse as this one.
  FORBES: Fact and Comment

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• also non-starter