英语词汇“non、event”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

non-event

释义

non-eˈvent
[non- 2 b.]
An unimportant or unexciting event, spec. one which was expected or intended to be important; occas., something that did not happen.
1962Spectator 30 Nov. 853/1 The chief non-event of Gilmour's campaign was also, he says, the product of the ‘serious’ press.1963I. Gilmour in Hansard Commons 7 May 272 Drugged by their normal diet of non-news stories and non-events, the newspapers tend to lose their heads when..faced with..a news story.1965Listener 30 Sept. 480/2 For all its admirable achievements in science and technology and the arts, the Soviet Union is still a great place for the non-event and the non-person, a category in which Mr. Khrushchev is at present languishing.1966K. Amis Anti-Death League 186 To find this view supported by events, or as now by non-events, was depressing.1967Listener 23 Nov. 679/2 Here was a non-event to compare with those other annual and totally insignificant English non-events—Ascot, the Boat Race and the Queen's Speech.1972Guardian 22 Jan. 15/3 The exchange of signatures is a non-event..it is neither truly historic nor of much practical significance.

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