last-ditch

• adj.最後まで持ちこたえる；最後の防衛線

すなわち最後の塹壕、死ぬまで戦うという意味の語源。後の蔑称。die-hard と比較される。

last-ditch (adj.)

"on the last line of defense," 1715, attributed to William of Orange; if so, originally in a Dutch context.

We have no space to enter into the detail of the heroic struggle maintained by the young stadtholder and his faithful Dutchmen; how they laid their country under water, and successfully kept the powerful invader at bay. Once the contest seemed utterly hopeless. William was advised to compromise the matter, and yield up Holland as the conquest of Louis XIV. "No," replied he; "I mean to die in the last ditch." A speech alone sufficient to render his memory immortal. [Agnes Strickland, "Lives of the Queens of England," London, 1847]

1. A fellow doesn 't last long on what he has done.He 's got to keep on delivering as he goes along.--Carl Hubbell，Baseball Player

過去に完成したものでは成功を収めることができず、道で成績を出し続けなければならない。dd>
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2.Friendship means understanding，not agreement.It means forgiveness，not forgetting.It means the memories last ，even if contact is lost.

友情は理解であり、妥協ではない、許すことであり、忘れることではない。連絡しなくても、感情は残っています。

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3.She ran away with a man called McTavish last year.

昨年、彼女はマクタヴィシュという男と駆け落ちした。

4.I picked first all the people who usually were left till last .

私はまず、通常最後まで残っているすべての人を選びました。

5.The Liberal Democrat 'ssupport fell away at the last minute.

自由民主党の支持率は最後の刻印で下がった。