last

英[lɑːst]美[læst]

det. *近过去的；

adj.*近的，*后的，*后剩下的；

adv.上次，*后地；

pron.*后的人；

v.持续，使继续存在，坚持下去，维持原状，够用；

n.鞋楦；

第三人称单数：lasts;

过去式：lasted;

过去分词：lasted;

现在分词：lasting;

英语六级真题

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

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Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

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It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.

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David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

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MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

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In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

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The current situation in American higher education may not last long.

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President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

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In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

But respondents ranked it last on a list of priorities.

A year on, the meetings have made lasting changes to what she throws away in her kitchen.

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Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

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I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

I was shopping in your store last Sunday afternoon.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term "workplace telepressure" to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.

In last week's lecture, we discussed the characteristics of the newly born offspring of several mammals.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

Industrial fishing for krill in the unspoilt waters around Antarctica is threatening the future of one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new report.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific.

Last year, a child was born at a hospital in the UK with her heart outside her body.

Last year, MATTEL also gave Barbie a flat foot rather than forcing her to be in heels all the time like the original Barbie is.

Last year, MATTEL, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to "shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve".

Last year, we did slightly over 50,000 and this year we hope to do more than 60,000.

Longevity statistics reveal that the average person doesn't last very long after retirement.

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year—or the year before, even.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm first, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it's too late—as a last witness.

Next week, we'll be looking at this last study more closely.

Of course, sometimes things happen at the last moment and I don't have a chance.

Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50.

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one—industrialization.

President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

risk taking in an educational context is a vital skill that enables progress and creativity, wrote Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, in a review published last year.

Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.

Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir(发酵乳饮品) on the other hand, have in the last year increased by over 38%.

Ships last a lot longer when they go to sea than when they stay in the harbor.

since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

The last time a major earthquake occurred along the Cascadia fault was in 1700, so officials worry that another event could occur any time.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因图谱) published last year by a Chinese team.

The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

This last finding would appear to contradict another popular hypothesis that it is our burdening of students with assignment that is causing all the problems.

Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that found 48% of consumers "feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.

Unfortunately for them and often the taxpayers, our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier : they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia meaning it takes a lot of energy to se

We just wrapped up a project with a difficult client last week.

We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

We've only been working together the last six months, but we quickly became good friends.

While human achievements in mathematics continue to reach new levels of complexity, many of us who aren't mathematicians at heartor engineers by trad may struggle to remember the last time we used calculus.

with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

DET

（表示*近过去的）刚过去的星期五/昨晚/去年

You use last in expressions such as last Friday ,last night, and last year to refer, for example, to the most recent Friday, night, or year.

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ADJ

*近的；*近一次的

The last event, person, thing, or period of time is the most recent one.

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ADV

上次；*近一次

If something last happened on a particular occasion, that is the most recent occasion on which it happened.

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ORD

*后的；*末的

The last thing, person, event, or period of time is the one that happens or comes after all the others of the same kind.

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ADV

*后地；*末地

If you do something last, you do it after everyone else does, or after you do everything else.

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PRON

*后的人

If you are the last to do or know something, everyone else does or knows it before you.

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ADJ

*后剩下的；*末的

Last is used to refer to the only thing, person, or part of something that remains.

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ADJ

（竞赛中）*后留下的，排位在前的

You use last before numbers to refer to a position that someone has reached in a competition after other competitors have been knocked out.

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ADJ

*不想要的；*不可能的

You can use last to indicate that something is extremely undesirable or unlikely.

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PRON

*后一次；*末一次

The last you see of someone or the last you hear of them is the final time that you see them or talk to them.

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VERB

持续，延续，维持（一段时间）

If an event, situation, or problem lasts for a particular length of time, it continues to exist or happen for that length of time.

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VERB

够用，保持可用状态（一段时间）

If something lasts for a particular length of time, it continues to be able to be used for that time, for example because there is some of it left or because it is in good enough condition.

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VERB

支持完；熬过；拖过

You can use last in expressions such as last the game ,last the course, and last the week, to indicate that someone manages to take part in an event or situation right to the end, especially when this is very difficult for them.

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PHRASE

终于；*后；到底

If you say that something has happened at last or at long last you mean it has happened after you have been hoping for it for a long time.

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PHRASE

前天晚上／ 上上次选举／上上任领导人

You use expressions such as the night before last ,the election before last and the leader before last to refer to the period of time, event, or person that came immediately before the most recent one in a series.

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PHRASE

气绝；断气；咽气

If someone breathes their last, they die.

PHRASE

倒数第二／倒数第三／ 倒数第四

You can use phrases such as the last but one, the last but two, or the last but three, to refer to the thing or person that is, for example, one, two, or three before the final person or thing in a group or series.

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PHRASE

所有；全部

You use every last to emphasize that you are talking about all the people or things in a group or all the parts of something.

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PHRASE

（需要裁员时首先解雇新员工的）“后进先出”原则

The expression last in, first out is used to say that the last person who started work in an organization should be the first person to leave it, if fewer people are needed.

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PHRASE

我/她*近一次听到有关…的消息；*新消息

You can use expressions such as the last I heard and the last she heard to introduce a piece of information that is the most recent that you have on a particular subject.

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PHRASE

把…留到*后

If you leave something or someone until last, you delay using, choosing, or dealing with them until you have used, chosen, or dealt with all the others.

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PHRASE

不再见到某人

If you see the last of someone, you do not expect to see them or deal with them again.

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PHRASE

贯穿（全书、整部电影或整件事情）

If you say that something goes on happening to the last, you mean that it happens throughout the whole of a book, film, or event.

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PHRASE

一直，始终（为某一类人）

If you say that someone is a particular kind of person to the last, you are emphasizing that they continue to be that kind of person.

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PHRASE

（表示全部包括在内）任何一丝细节/ 每一个人

You use expressions such as to the last detail and to the last man to indicate that a plan, situation, or activity includes every single person, thing, or part involved.

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英汉词典释义

vi.

延续; 继续

耐用; 经久

继续存在；持续起作用；持久

幸免于；活下去；支撑；设法维持

vt.

经受住, 到…之后

够用，足够维持（尤指某段时间）

adj.

*后的, 末尾的

*近的; 刚过去的, 上一个的

惟一剩下的; *终的

*不可能的, *不合适的

n.

*后的[*后提到的]人[物]; *近的信

adv.

上一次, *近一次

*后

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the temporal end; the concluding time;

2. the last or lowest in an ordering or series;

3. a person's dying act; the last thing a person can do;

4. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead;

5. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds

6. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels

7. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence;

8. holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes

Verb

1. persist or be long; in time;

2. continue to live; endure or last;

Adjective

1. immediately past;

2. coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining;

3. occurring at or forming an end or termination;

4. conclusive in a process or progression;

5. most unlikely or unsuitable;

6. occurring at the time of death;

7. not to be altered or undone;

8. lowest in rank or importance;

9. highest in extent or degree;

10. in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style;

Adverb

1. more recently than any other time;

2. the item at the end;

行业词典

计算机： 上[*近，*后]一次；