underdog
underdog 英 [ˈʌndədɒg] 美 [ˈʌndərdɔg]
n. 比赛中不被看好者；失败者；受压迫者；斗败了的狗
名词复数:underdogs
- An underdog is someone who isn't likely to win a competition or contest. When a professional basketball player faces off against a high school student who's a foot shorter, the high schooler is the underdog.
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- n. 比赛中不被看好者；失败者；受压迫者；斗败了的狗
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1. “My mom gave me an appreciation for the underdog, ” he said.
“我的妈妈给了一颗让我欣赏失败者的心，”他说。
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2. One way to look at the Danes paradigm of themselves is that they are the underdog.
看待丹麦人这一范例，可以从他们是失败者这一角度入手。
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3. Though it is depressingly rare for the underdog to win in the real world, I'd like to cling to the idea that when they do, they have something special to offer that the overdog does not.
尽管在现实世界中失败者成功的可能性小得令人沮丧，但我愿意坚持这种观点，那就是一旦他们获得成功，他们会带来一些特别的东西，而这些是那些天之骄子们所不具备的。
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