home straight

英 [həʊm streɪt]

美 [hoʊm streɪt]

n.  (赛跑的)最后阶段，冲刺阶段; (活动等的)最后部分，接近完成的阶段

牛津词典

noun

• （赛跑的）最后阶段，冲刺阶段
  the last part of a race
• （活动等的）最后部分，接近完成的阶段
  the last part of an activity, etc. when it is nearly completed

双语例句

• He was behaving so badly at school today, I wonder that he wasn't sent home straight away.
  他今天在学校的表现非常糟糕，但我奇怪他没有被马上打发回家。
• When he reached home he went straight up to his wife's sitting-room.
  他到家后，直奔妻子的起居室。
• Moreover, bankers have expressed disappointment that some would-be buyers have reached the advanced stages of a sales process only for their interest to fade on the home straight.
  另外，让银行家们感到失望的是，一些潜在买家已经到了出售过程的后期，但在最后冲刺阶段，兴趣却减退了。
• He made a fast finishing burst and overtake the leaders on the home straight.
  他快速做最后的冲刺，在冲刺线前超过了领先者。
• Farrell:* so as usually I'd shoot home to Dublin straight away.
  所以，以前通常情况下我就直接回在都柏林的家了；
• For years I had watch her come home from school and head straight out to it's cage, free it and play with it in the yard.
  几年来，我都看见她放学后径直走到兔子的笼子，把兔子放出来和它在院子里玩耍。
• I also knew that in the Usher family there had never been many children and so for hundreds of years the family name, together with the family home, had passed straight from father to son.
  我还知道，在鄂榭家族史上还从未有过子息繁盛的时候，于是，数百年来，家族的姓氏连同家族的宅第均是由父及子由子及孙一脉单传。
• Don't let him drive home in that condition! He can't even see straight.
  别让他在这种状况下开车回家！他连东西都看不清楚。
• If the husband does not like to go home, it was suggested to burn a good dinner every day, his dishes and his favorite wine at the table for the straight.
  假如老公不喜欢回家，建议还是要每天烧好晚饭，将他的碗筷和他喜欢的老酒端正的供在桌前。
• New home prices in China fell 0.9 per cent in July from June, government data showed on Monday, the third straight monthly drop.
  周一公布的政府数据显示，今年7月，新房均价环比下降0.9%，为连续第三个月下降。