英语释义

• the final irritation that stretches you patience byond the limit

片语

you are the last straw你实在是太烦人了

This is the last straw我再也无法忍受了

The last straw终于使人无法忍受的最后一击；导火线

to be the last straw终于使人不支的最后一击

n The last straw使人终于不胜负荷的最后一件事

英汉例句

• after several personal setbacks, 「this bear stearns thing happened to be the last straw that broke his spirit, 」 mr. philippi said in an interview.

  在经历了一些个人挫折之后，「贝尔斯登这档子事正好成了打破他信念的最后一根稻草，」philippi先生在访谈中说道。

• the last straw came when paige「s eldest son bruce came to stay. he asked her to buy chicken, and paige ended up eating half of it.

  paige大儿子留下来是最后一根稻草（起到关键作用），他让她买些鸡肉，结果paige吃了一半。

• 「our christmas party this year was the last straw for me,」 said deborah castor, whose early departures to attend a scrapbooking class have resulted in the advertising firm losing two separate clients.

  「我们今年的圣诞晚会是我的最后一根稻草,」黛博拉.卡斯特说到，她早早离开圣诞晚会去参加剪贴簿培训班已经导致该广告公司失去两个客户。

• a natural disaster is often the last straw for pier-owners.

  自然灾害往往成为压垮栈桥所有者的最后一根稻草。

• 「this may not be the last straw against luzhkov, but it is certainly another one, 」 says an insider.

  内情人士称，「也许这并非干掉卢日科夫的最后一击，但也是致命一击。」

• the last straw could have been a heatwave that hit the region in late 2005, when dead possums of several species were found along forest roads.

  应该是2005年末袭击这个地区的一场热浪给了这种动物致命的打击，那个时候在森林小路上发现了几个品种的死负鼠。

• he was often tardy, and the last straw was him being late for her best friend」s 40th birthday party.

  他经常拖拉，最后的一次令她实在忍无可忍了，那是他在她最好的朋友40岁生日派对时迟到。

• the last straw came in 1941, when the supreme court issued its 「flash of creative genius」 decision, in cuno engineering corporation v. automatic devices corporation.

  在1941年，库诺工程公司起诉自动化设备公司一案中，最高法院认定发明是「创意天才的灵光一现」。

• the last straw seems to have been a newspaper article mr luzhkov published in early september criticising mr medvedev「s decision to suspend construction of a new road between moscow and st petersburg.

  最后一根压倒卢日科夫的稻草应该是九月初他在报纸上发表的一篇文章，其中他其责梅德韦杰夫先生暂缓莫斯科和圣彼得堡之间一条新公路的建设这一决定。

• this was the last straw for many conservatives.

  许多保守派人士终于忍无可忍。

• john has always been a trouble maker at school but when he set fire to someone」s locker, it was the last straw and he was expelled.

  约翰在旱校总是制造麻烦，当他对某人的橱柜放火时，实在让人忍无可忍，所以他被开除了。

• universal collapse of the economy and our financial system which can well at any time be triggered by an insignificant incident, the last straw which will break the camel「s back.

  正如苦苦支撑的骆驼再也无力承受最后一根稻草一样，岌岌可危的世界经济和金融体系，随时可能因为一场看似轻微的事件而陷入崩溃。

• the last straw was a newspaper article that mr luzhkov published earlier this month.

  最后一根稻草是卢日科夫在本月早些时候发表的一篇报刊文章。

• if this week」s auction is bad for lisbon and borrowing costs rise (which they are more than likely to do) this could be the last straw before portugal has to apply for bailout funds.

  如果葡萄牙本周拍卖结果糟糕且借贷成本上升（非常有可能），则可能成为压倒葡萄牙的最后一根稻草，令其申请紧急救援。