dark horse
英 [dɑːk hɔːs]
美 [dɑːrk hɔːrs]
n. 黑马(最近刚取得或将要取得成功的新人)
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 黑马(最近刚取得或将要取得成功的新人)
If you describe someone as adark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.- Until recently A. S. Byatt was a dark horse, known only by those steeped in literature.
一直到前不久,A.S.拜厄特都还是只为潜心研究文学的人所知晓的一匹黑马。
- Until recently A. S. Byatt was a dark horse, known only by those steeped in literature.
英英释义
noun
- a racehorse about which little is known
- a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly
双语例句
- Jack is a dark horse; he never says much and you don't know what he's thinking.
杰克让人捉摸不透,他从来不多说话,你不知道他在想什么。 - Jim is a dark horse in the final.
吉姆是决赛中的冷门。 - He was a real dark horse.
他真是匹黑马。 - This election has two dark horse candidates in it.
这次选举出现了两匹黑马。 - Our girls 'football team was a dark horse in the last League Match.
在上次联赛中我们的女子足球对爆了冷门。 - She was indeed the dark horse.
她真不愧是只黑马。 - And a "dark horse" the only possibility," in different regions and different types of "sentence.
和“黑马”唯一的可能性,“在不同的地区,”不同类型的句子。 - This year, though, the other party nominated a dark horse out of nowhere.
然而,今年另一个党提名了一个不知从那儿冒出来的人,谁也不认识他。 - He is regarded as a dark horse in the year-end election.
他在今年年底的选举中被认为是匹黑马。 - I did not know that James could paint. he's such a dark horse.
我不知道詹姆斯会画画,他真是不显山露水啊。