ultimatum
ultimatum 英 [ˌʌltɪˈmeɪtəm] 美 [ˌʌltəˈmeitəm, -ˈmɑ-]
n. 最后通牒；最后结论；基本原理
名词复数:ultimatums
- An ultimatum is a final demand attached to a threat, like "If you don't do it, I'll never speak to you again." Ultimatums are serious business.
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- n. 最后通牒；最后结论；基本原理
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1. Both groups then played the ultimatum game as responders.
两组在最后通牒游戏中都扮演回应者。
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2. What a strange ultimatum that is, at once romantic in the drama of its request and fiercely anti-romantic in the spitefulness of its threat.
不寻常的最后通牒，它既是按戏剧安排那样的浪漫，又是源于对仇恨强烈恐惧的不浪漫。
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3. If Saddam defies the ultimatum, the anti-Iraq allies who fought Saddam in the Gulf War two years ago could retaliated by bombing his missiles–or up the ante and go after Iraqi air bases or was planes.
如果萨达姆公开拒绝最后通牒，两年以前在海弯战争中与萨达姆作战的反伊拉克盟国可能轰炸他的导弹以为报复——或提高赌注攻击伊拉克空军基地或战机。
- ultimatum (n.) "final demand," 1731, from Modern Latin, from Medieval Latin ultimatum "a final statement," noun use of Latin adjective ultimatum "last possible, final," neuter of ultimatus (see ultimate). The Latin plural ultimata was used by the Romans as a noun, "what is farthest or most remote; the last, the end." In slang c. 1820s, ultimatum was used for "the buttocks."
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