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 nonstarter [nɒn'stɑ:tә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 未能出赛的马, 无成功希望的人



    nonstarter
    [ noun ]
    1. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

    2. <noun.person>
    3. a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered

    4. <noun.animal>


    nonstarter \nonstarter\ n.
    1. a person with a record of failing.

    Syn: loser, failure, unsuccessful person.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    2. A horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been
    entered.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    3. A proposal that will not receive serious consideration by
    those with authority to decide.
    [PJC]

    1. In Washington, a White House official confirmed Wednesday that the message was delivered to Scowcroft but said it was "basically a nonstarter." "Our position has always been that Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait.
    2. Brazil's finance minister dropped his radical plan to discount 50% of his nation's huge bank debt after Treasury Secretary James Baker rejected it as "a nonstarter."
    3. Five years ago the experts told him that tax reform was a legislative and political nonstarter.
    4. The analogy worth recalling here is "fairness" and taxes. Tax fairness was a nonstarter throughout the 1980s, until Mr. Bush abandoned his pro-growth, anti-tax platform last fall. Then Democrats made hay.
    5. That's just a nonstarter," he said.
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