英语词汇last-ditch effort的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	last-ditch effort
词源	last-ditch effort. A fight to the very end. The expression may have been coined by English bishop Gilbert Burnet in his Histo- ry of My Own Time (1715), at least the last ditch part of it. Burnet wrote: “There was a sure way never to see [Holland] lost, and that was to die in the last ditch.” He was referring to soldiers dy- ing while defending the last ditch of an entrenchment.
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