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An also-ran is someone who took part but did not win — in a race, an election, a contest. It is a little cool and : it suggests they were never really in the fight, not merely that they came second. It comes from horse racing. Results used to list the horses that did not pay out under the heading “Also Ran”: they also ran, but they did not finish in a paying place. Newspapers and everyday talk now use it for and jobs too. Informal, a bit . As a noun it is written with a .
落選者；陪跑的人
組成From the old racing-result heading “Also Ran” — the horses that ran but did not win a paying place.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
also-rannoun
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A person or animal who competed in a race, or other competition, but did not win.
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A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten.
- It also turned Palmer from an also-ran into a challenger.
- I have 37 actors and actresses I would supply for television and radio work and then I have maybe 150 to 200 also-rans who get extra work and television commercials.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。