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Definition of nowhere in English: nowhereadverb ˈnəʊwɛːˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛr Not in or to any place; not anywhere. 不在任何地方；不去任何地方；任何地方都不 plants and animals found nowhere else in the world 世界上任何其他地方都找不到的植物和动物。 the constable was nowhere to be seen 哪儿也看不见那个警察。 Example sentencesExamples - Such self-satisfaction and optimism have nowhere been more on display than in the financial media.
- He later extended his methods to study the Koch curves which are continuous everywhere but nowhere differentiable.
- The next morning, Damien and Jim are nowhere to be found.
- Secondly I note you nowhere provide any argument for why we - the taxpayers - should fund these disastrous lifestyle choices.
- But nowhere are the vitality and virtues of his boyhood locality celebrated more compellingly than in this novel about a national nightmare.
- Even people who usually have three or four parties to go to were invited nowhere or purposely decided to stay in.
- But nowhere will he be missed more than in the offices of the ‘Western People’.
- But the bold claims of cable infomercials are nowhere heard in the halls of science.
- The undergrowth was, in places, thick, but nowhere impenetrable.
- I have checked Oxley's reports and nowhere do they mention that 100 Aborigines or twenty Europeans were killed.
- The mere ‘power politician’ may get strong effects, but actually his work leads nowhere and is senseless.
- As is the case with UK law, the aims of Community policy are nowhere encapsulated in its legislative provisions.
- With nowhere left to run, Massood's margin for error is very thin.
- This was a strategic reality that had nowhere been intimated during the armistice of 1989-91.
- Gambling has been an important part of our national experience and nowhere is it more evident than in our military history.
- In particular, the Regulation covers the families of EC workers, which are nowhere mentioned in the Treaty.
- You could be living anywhere or nowhere and not at the end of a very sick River Murray.
- Pre-born humans are, so far as conscious experience is concerned, nowhere.
- Above all, we offer our students something that exists almost nowhere else in academia - a huge amount of one to one time.
- I was not behaving very sensibly, but nowhere had I experienced such a nauseating attitude to girls as in the last throes of Franco's sick and dying Spain.
pronoun ˈnəʊwɛːˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛr 1No place. 没有地方 there was nowhere for her to sit 她没有地方可坐。 there's nowhere better to experience the wonders of the Pyrenees 没有一个地方可以更好地体验比利牛斯山的奇观了。 Example sentencesExamples - A group of Farnhill mums, fed up with having nowhere for their children to play, have got together to raise money to update an ageing play area in the village.
- People inexplicably disappear, and families with nowhere else to go make their homes in the cold and crumbled concrete.
- There are currently more than 40 beds blocked by patients who are well enough to leave the ward, but have nowhere suitable to go.
- Other factors in the sparrow's decline are modern buildings that offer nowhere to nest, an increase in the number of cats, and changes in farming practices.
- The torrential rain and widespread flooding left nowhere untouched.
- She added: ‘I do feel sorry for the residents but there's nowhere else to park.’
- It was mooted in Sheffield and nowhere suitable could be found because of protests from local business people.
- Customer and student Natalie Darby said: ‘There's nowhere else to get such good food.’
- A postcode lottery of legal aid is leaving desperate people with nowhere to turn for help on problems such as homelessness and domestic violence.
- Our normal condition of life is that we have nowhere decent to live and we are frequently stopped and searched or arrested.
- Ah, you will say, but if publishers don't bother with small fry, then eventually they will run out of big fry, because the big fry will have nowhere to learn their trade.
- Its forced departure, prior to any demolition work, will leave people in Wimbledon with nowhere spacious to sit and eat their Big Macs.
- That, and the fact that means there has been almost no new council housing built in the past 20 years, there is virtually nowhere affordable to live.
- Last year, doctors declared him well enough to be discharged but the family home in Aldermoor was unsuitable and nowhere big enough could be found.
- Her own students and other children in the area had nowhere to gain ensemble experience and it was too far to travel to Sydney so she began her own local string group.
- It leaves some coach drivers with nowhere to park, aimlessly driving round the airport until their passengers appear outside the terminal.
- There's nowhere for them to go although Amber is trying to place these young men and women.
- The peasants of Baimiao Town and Tienqiao Village in Linquan County had nowhere left to turn to, but they did not rebel.
- Experience shows that nowhere is too small to host activities against the war.
- Otherwise we will suffer a similar a fate to that experienced by the boatpeople - adrift, unwanted and with nowhere to call home.
2A place that is remote, uninteresting, or nondescript. 偏僻的地方，乏味的地方；毫无特色的地方 a stretch of road between nowhere and nowhere 穷乡僻壤之间的一段公路。 Example sentencesExamples - The good scenes start strong and go nowhere, but most scenes in this film start nowhere and wander off into nothingness.
- Seems any of my participation so far is leading nowhere.
- Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual.
- In some of his writings he describes this emptiness as the nowhere from which joy emerges without a cause and the nowhere to which it returns.
- Talking would lead her nowhere and nowhere was where she did not want to be.
- Nothing leads to nothing, Nowhere stretches to nowhere.
- Far behind them, a cold, dead planet spun through space on a straight line path that led from nowhere to nowhere among the stars.
- Usually, teams that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere the next season, but the Chargers are solid.
adjective ˈnəʊwɛːˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛr informal attributive Having no prospect of progress or success. 〈非正式〉无望成功的 Example sentencesExamples - Living in a nowhere rural town in snowbound Montana, he appears ready to break himself.
- Test's foot injury got him one more main event slot, rather than a nowhere feud with the Dudleyz.
- The first guy got out; the second stuck around so we could drag out a nowhere relationship for a while longer.
- Home was often a nowhere place, and identities were confused and reliant on legislation and mediation.
- Norm chartered a Leer-jet for a trip to a nowhere airport in North Texas, and he thought he needed a cover story.
- And technically everyone gets out of Socrendien, everyone gets out of this nowhere land.
- To give a very small example of a loose end that bothered me, what does Seb mean when he says ‘you worked the nowhere vases’?
- I wait for the pickpocket children to come flocking, but this is a little nowhere station, and it's too early.
- The more northerly reaches on their charts had always been regarded as nowhere places, including Shalisa Creek Bay.
- Both these fine actors should have refused the nowhere script of Undisputed.
- It's in some pound in the middle of industrial hell nowhere zone, miles away, and it's going to cost £190 to get it back.
- One of the kids angrily asks how often it is that they get a suicide in this nowhere town.
- As California's state capital, it has long been viewed as a nowhere land of lawyers and lobbyists.
- He's a real nowhere man.
- The two men had a beautiful home out near the Rocky Moutains, in a beautiful and quaint nowhere town.
- I just like to trick my friends into remaining nowhere losers like myself.
PhrasesBe badly beaten or completely unsuccessful. （在比赛，竞争中）惨败 as historical recreation the film was interesting, as cinema it was nowhere Example sentencesExamples - We are told that football is a tough, competitive sport; winning is everything and second is nowhere.
- Keane was nowhere, producing one of his most disappointing performances in a big game for United.
- Soon after a few rounds of counting, he realised that he was nowhere in the race.
Appearing or happening suddenly and unexpectedly. 突然出现（或发生），出人意料地出现（或发生） they came from nowhere to win in the last three strokes of the race 他们出人意料地以最后三桨赢得了划艇比赛。 Example sentencesExamples - It is an illness which can just hit you out of nowhere and suddenly your energy is gone.
- Suddenly Burton appeared from nowhere by shoving Abbey out the way.
- One day the lad was walking through the forest when a strange man appeared out of nowhere.
- Such plant life seems to appear out of nowhere when the snow and ice recede.
- Suddenly, out of nowhere, there were these localised waves of eight to 10 feet high.
- We felt rather unglamorous compared to the beautiful local girls who seemed to appear from nowhere at nightfall.
- Some photographers appeared from nowhere and fired off a load of shots.
- They appear almost out of nowhere, cover the city, and mutate as they spread.
- A niece had suddenly appeared from nowhere and said that it was a disgrace that her uncle had been neglected.
- Every town has a few black spots where rubbish seems to appear from nowhere.
he'll get nowhere with her, he's too young 他和她之间的关系不会取得任何进展，他太年轻了。 Example sentencesExamples - This time around, though, the appeal went nowhere.
- A similar deal was announced last weekend but went nowhere.
- European offers to reconstruct the justice system went nowhere.
- For the Tories, the depressing news is that they are going nowhere when they need to be making progress.
- For instance there are stairs that go nowhere and hallways that go nowhere.
- The president's proposed Social Security reform went nowhere.
- In 2001, his administration produced a comprehensive plan that went nowhere.
- Provincial officials held talks with industry leaders but the talks went nowhere, said Tom Hickey of the Insurance Brokers Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- My arguments about doctor's orders went nowhere.
- Meanwhile, the American-Japanese negotiations went nowhere.
Be of no use or benefit to someone. 对某人毫无益处 being angry would get her nowhere 发火对她毫无益处。 Example sentencesExamples - Since research was getting them nowhere, they decided to follow the last clue they had: the piece of paper with the address.
- Realising that deprivation was getting him nowhere, the Buddha broke his fast and ate (at which point the small following of disciples who had gathered round him left in disgust at what they perceived as weakness).
- In the end, the IRA gave up bombing because it got them nowhere.
- We've already had an inquest and court cases, and investigations and it's got us nowhere.
- In my experience, a negative attitude gets you nowhere.
- My attempts to sort this out took 18 months and got me nowhere.
- Ten years of trying to make it in the music industry had got him nowhere.
- The fence alone has already cost the council upwards of £20,000 and has got us nowhere.
- When this got him nowhere, he took the matter to court.
- The message was clear: violence gets you nowhere and the state will not compromise with those who threaten its citizens.
Fail to progress or succeed. 〈非正式〉无望成功的 their investigations often lead nowhere Example sentencesExamples - The majority of the discussions lead nowhere.
- This story is not only interrupted several times, but leads nowhere.
- Rather than admit the review has led nowhere, the government is set to shift the focus on to underage drinkers.
- Further arguing of his case led nowhere.
- They lose interest in the dialogue because it leads nowhere.
- This line of argument leads nowhere.
informal A place that is very remote. we got lost in the middle of nowhere Example sentencesExamples - In the middle of nowhere, as long as you have a 56k internet connection, you can call from your laptop to any phone in the world for pennies.
- The next scene following is of a school bus filled with athletes, traveling (who would have guessed?) through the middle of nowhere, celebrating after a team victory.
- As I got older, and could drive, I would take long day-trips to the middle of nowhere and just sit and stare at a tree or flower for an hour or so before driving back home.
- If I wasn't so slow, I might have been able to avoid a huge, sharp sword sticking out from the middle of nowhere, just conveniently pointing at my chest.
- We weave our way in and out of mangrove islands, and past sticks protruding oddly from what seems like the middle of nowhere.
- In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere.
- Take her for a drive into the middle of nowhere and leave her there.
- Then it occurred to me that my eyes could have been playing tricks on me, and that I could be in a bit of trouble if I'd summoned an ambulance and the police into the middle of nowhere on the whim of my sub-conscious.
- So off I went to bus out to the middle of nowhere to pick up the textbooks - I have now been to every single possible location at which professors will order books or course packs.
- I mean, it really is the middle of nowhere - especially coming from London.
Synonyms the back of beyond, the backwoods, the wilds, the hinterland, a backwater
he's nowhere near as popular as he used to be 他远不像以前那样受欢迎了。 Example sentencesExamples - Kenny is nowhere near having a settled team for what is the biggest task of his managerial career.
- What one thinks is certainly important, but nowhere near as important as how one thinks.
- The point is, there's nowhere near enough of this kind of high class entertainment.
- The evidence for a causal link between video games and violence is nowhere near as solid as Grossman maintains.
- He wasn't satisfied with that, though, oh no, nowhere near satisfied with that.
- Thursday night was nowhere near as bad as what I had thought it would be.
- They enjoy nowhere near as much support in Scotland as they do in England.
- It is still quite a big car, although nowhere near as heavy, and offers plenty of ride performance and comfort.
- It was pretty good, although nowhere near as tasty as the dinner Jenny and Stefan made for us.
- My father lost his job and the dole payment was minute - nowhere near enough to live on.
Synonyms off target, off the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the target, inaccurate, off course, astray, nowhere near, out
A situation or course of action offering no prospects of progress or advancement. 没有出路的处境；不可能成功的行动 Example sentencesExamples - When it comes to the quality of our democracy we are traveling on a road to nowhere.
- Trouble is, such arrogance can lead just as quickly to a player heading off down a road to nowhere.
- Sandy Moffat (Seven Days, November 26) posed the question: is art on a road to nowhere?
- Once headed down a road to nowhere, Eddie George has turned into one of the true titans of the league
- I think Chris is on a road to nowhere with this one, partly because how you view Chomsky's assertion depends to a great extent on which evidence you accept and how much weight you attach to it, but mainly because I think he's wrong.
- Having been part of a few meandering relationships in recent years, that have ultimately been a trip on a road to nowhere, I'm not counting on anything just yet.
- Short-term advantage for factory or farmer is a road to nowhere.
- Only time will judge whether the team is on a road to nowhere.
- But they have been so busy becoming politicians they know nothing about anything and are leading us on a road to nowhere.
- I considered traveling again but I was worried that it was literally a road to nowhere.
OriginOld English nāhwǣr (see no, where). Definition of nowhere in US English: nowhereadverbˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛrˈnōˌ(h)wer Not in or to any place; not anywhere. 不在任何地方；不去任何地方；任何地方都不 plants and animals found nowhere else in the world 世界上任何其他地方都找不到的植物和动物。 Andrea is nowhere to be found Example sentencesExamples - Secondly I note you nowhere provide any argument for why we - the taxpayers - should fund these disastrous lifestyle choices.
- Gambling has been an important part of our national experience and nowhere is it more evident than in our military history.
- But the bold claims of cable infomercials are nowhere heard in the halls of science.
- The mere ‘power politician’ may get strong effects, but actually his work leads nowhere and is senseless.
- With nowhere left to run, Massood's margin for error is very thin.
- As is the case with UK law, the aims of Community policy are nowhere encapsulated in its legislative provisions.
- Pre-born humans are, so far as conscious experience is concerned, nowhere.
- Even people who usually have three or four parties to go to were invited nowhere or purposely decided to stay in.
- This was a strategic reality that had nowhere been intimated during the armistice of 1989-91.
- I have checked Oxley's reports and nowhere do they mention that 100 Aborigines or twenty Europeans were killed.
- He later extended his methods to study the Koch curves which are continuous everywhere but nowhere differentiable.
- In particular, the Regulation covers the families of EC workers, which are nowhere mentioned in the Treaty.
- But nowhere will he be missed more than in the offices of the ‘Western People’.
- The undergrowth was, in places, thick, but nowhere impenetrable.
- But nowhere are the vitality and virtues of his boyhood locality celebrated more compellingly than in this novel about a national nightmare.
- Above all, we offer our students something that exists almost nowhere else in academia - a huge amount of one to one time.
- You could be living anywhere or nowhere and not at the end of a very sick River Murray.
- Such self-satisfaction and optimism have nowhere been more on display than in the financial media.
- I was not behaving very sensibly, but nowhere had I experienced such a nauseating attitude to girls as in the last throes of Franco's sick and dying Spain.
- The next morning, Damien and Jim are nowhere to be found.
pronounˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛrˈnōˌ(h)wer 1No place. 没有地方 there was nowhere for her to sit 她没有地方可坐。 there's nowhere better to experience the wonders of the Rockies 没有一个地方可以更好地体验比利牛斯山的奇观了。 Example sentencesExamples - Other factors in the sparrow's decline are modern buildings that offer nowhere to nest, an increase in the number of cats, and changes in farming practices.
- It was mooted in Sheffield and nowhere suitable could be found because of protests from local business people.
- Customer and student Natalie Darby said: ‘There's nowhere else to get such good food.’
- Our normal condition of life is that we have nowhere decent to live and we are frequently stopped and searched or arrested.
- That, and the fact that means there has been almost no new council housing built in the past 20 years, there is virtually nowhere affordable to live.
- Ah, you will say, but if publishers don't bother with small fry, then eventually they will run out of big fry, because the big fry will have nowhere to learn their trade.
- A postcode lottery of legal aid is leaving desperate people with nowhere to turn for help on problems such as homelessness and domestic violence.
- Last year, doctors declared him well enough to be discharged but the family home in Aldermoor was unsuitable and nowhere big enough could be found.
- A group of Farnhill mums, fed up with having nowhere for their children to play, have got together to raise money to update an ageing play area in the village.
- There's nowhere for them to go although Amber is trying to place these young men and women.
- The torrential rain and widespread flooding left nowhere untouched.
- Her own students and other children in the area had nowhere to gain ensemble experience and it was too far to travel to Sydney so she began her own local string group.
- Experience shows that nowhere is too small to host activities against the war.
- There are currently more than 40 beds blocked by patients who are well enough to leave the ward, but have nowhere suitable to go.
- Its forced departure, prior to any demolition work, will leave people in Wimbledon with nowhere spacious to sit and eat their Big Macs.
- People inexplicably disappear, and families with nowhere else to go make their homes in the cold and crumbled concrete.
- It leaves some coach drivers with nowhere to park, aimlessly driving round the airport until their passengers appear outside the terminal.
- The peasants of Baimiao Town and Tienqiao Village in Linquan County had nowhere left to turn to, but they did not rebel.
- She added: ‘I do feel sorry for the residents but there's nowhere else to park.’
- Otherwise we will suffer a similar a fate to that experienced by the boatpeople - adrift, unwanted and with nowhere to call home.
2A place that is remote, uninteresting, or nondescript. 偏僻的地方，乏味的地方；毫无特色的地方 a stretch of road between nowhere and nowhere 穷乡僻壤之间的一段公路。 as noun the town is a particularly American nowhere 这是一个毫无特色的典型美国式市镇。 Example sentencesExamples - Nothing leads to nothing, Nowhere stretches to nowhere.
- Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual.
- The good scenes start strong and go nowhere, but most scenes in this film start nowhere and wander off into nothingness.
- Far behind them, a cold, dead planet spun through space on a straight line path that led from nowhere to nowhere among the stars.
- Seems any of my participation so far is leading nowhere.
- Talking would lead her nowhere and nowhere was where she did not want to be.
- In some of his writings he describes this emptiness as the nowhere from which joy emerges without a cause and the nowhere to which it returns.
- Usually, teams that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere the next season, but the Chargers are solid.
adjectiveˈnoʊˌ(h)wɛrˈnōˌ(h)wer informal attributive Having no prospect of progress or success. 〈非正式〉无望成功的 she's involved in a nowhere affair with a married executive 她卷入了和一个已婚经理的毫无希望的恋情之中。 Example sentencesExamples - The two men had a beautiful home out near the Rocky Moutains, in a beautiful and quaint nowhere town.
- I just like to trick my friends into remaining nowhere losers like myself.
- I wait for the pickpocket children to come flocking, but this is a little nowhere station, and it's too early.
- One of the kids angrily asks how often it is that they get a suicide in this nowhere town.
- Norm chartered a Leer-jet for a trip to a nowhere airport in North Texas, and he thought he needed a cover story.
- Home was often a nowhere place, and identities were confused and reliant on legislation and mediation.
- And technically everyone gets out of Socrendien, everyone gets out of this nowhere land.
- The first guy got out; the second stuck around so we could drag out a nowhere relationship for a while longer.
- He's a real nowhere man.
- The more northerly reaches on their charts had always been regarded as nowhere places, including Shalisa Creek Bay.
- It's in some pound in the middle of industrial hell nowhere zone, miles away, and it's going to cost £190 to get it back.
- Test's foot injury got him one more main event slot, rather than a nowhere feud with the Dudleyz.
- Living in a nowhere rural town in snowbound Montana, he appears ready to break himself.
- Both these fine actors should have refused the nowhere script of Undisputed.
- To give a very small example of a loose end that bothered me, what does Seb mean when he says ‘you worked the nowhere vases’?
- As California's state capital, it has long been viewed as a nowhere land of lawyers and lobbyists.
PhrasesAppearing or happening suddenly and unexpectedly. 突然出现（或发生），出人意料地出现（或发生） he materialized a taxi out of nowhere Example sentencesExamples - One day the lad was walking through the forest when a strange man appeared out of nowhere.
- Such plant life seems to appear out of nowhere when the snow and ice recede.
- Every town has a few black spots where rubbish seems to appear from nowhere.
- Some photographers appeared from nowhere and fired off a load of shots.
- It is an illness which can just hit you out of nowhere and suddenly your energy is gone.
- A niece had suddenly appeared from nowhere and said that it was a disgrace that her uncle had been neglected.
- We felt rather unglamorous compared to the beautiful local girls who seemed to appear from nowhere at nightfall.
- Suddenly, out of nowhere, there were these localised waves of eight to 10 feet high.
- They appear almost out of nowhere, cover the city, and mutate as they spread.
- Suddenly Burton appeared from nowhere by shoving Abbey out the way.
I'm getting nowhere—maybe I should give up the project was going nowhere fast Example sentencesExamples - My arguments about doctor's orders went nowhere.
- For the Tories, the depressing news is that they are going nowhere when they need to be making progress.
- The president's proposed Social Security reform went nowhere.
- European offers to reconstruct the justice system went nowhere.
- This time around, though, the appeal went nowhere.
- Meanwhile, the American-Japanese negotiations went nowhere.
- For instance there are stairs that go nowhere and hallways that go nowhere.
- A similar deal was announced last weekend but went nowhere.
- In 2001, his administration produced a comprehensive plan that went nowhere.
- Provincial officials held talks with industry leaders but the talks went nowhere, said Tom Hickey of the Insurance Brokers Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Be of no use or benefit to someone. 对某人毫无益处 being angry would get her nowhere 发火对她毫无益处。 Example sentencesExamples - My attempts to sort this out took 18 months and got me nowhere.
- When this got him nowhere, he took the matter to court.
- In my experience, a negative attitude gets you nowhere.
- The fence alone has already cost the council upwards of £20,000 and has got us nowhere.
- In the end, the IRA gave up bombing because it got them nowhere.
- Ten years of trying to make it in the music industry had got him nowhere.
- Since research was getting them nowhere, they decided to follow the last clue they had: the piece of paper with the address.
- Realising that deprivation was getting him nowhere, the Buddha broke his fast and ate (at which point the small following of disciples who had gathered round him left in disgust at what they perceived as weakness).
- The message was clear: violence gets you nowhere and the state will not compromise with those who threaten its citizens.
- We've already had an inquest and court cases, and investigations and it's got us nowhere.
informal A place that is remote and isolated. Example sentencesExamples - The next scene following is of a school bus filled with athletes, traveling (who would have guessed?) through the middle of nowhere, celebrating after a team victory.
- We weave our way in and out of mangrove islands, and past sticks protruding oddly from what seems like the middle of nowhere.
- I mean, it really is the middle of nowhere - especially coming from London.
- If I wasn't so slow, I might have been able to avoid a huge, sharp sword sticking out from the middle of nowhere, just conveniently pointing at my chest.
- Then it occurred to me that my eyes could have been playing tricks on me, and that I could be in a bit of trouble if I'd summoned an ambulance and the police into the middle of nowhere on the whim of my sub-conscious.
- As I got older, and could drive, I would take long day-trips to the middle of nowhere and just sit and stare at a tree or flower for an hour or so before driving back home.
- In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere.
- In the middle of nowhere, as long as you have a 56k internet connection, you can call from your laptop to any phone in the world for pennies.
- So off I went to bus out to the middle of nowhere to pick up the textbooks - I have now been to every single possible location at which professors will order books or course packs.
- Take her for a drive into the middle of nowhere and leave her there.
Synonyms the back of beyond, the backwoods, the wilds, the hinterland, a backwater
he's nowhere near as popular as he used to be 他远不像以前那样受欢迎了。 Example sentencesExamples - They enjoy nowhere near as much support in Scotland as they do in England.
- It is still quite a big car, although nowhere near as heavy, and offers plenty of ride performance and comfort.
- The point is, there's nowhere near enough of this kind of high class entertainment.
- The evidence for a causal link between video games and violence is nowhere near as solid as Grossman maintains.
- Thursday night was nowhere near as bad as what I had thought it would be.
- What one thinks is certainly important, but nowhere near as important as how one thinks.
- Kenny is nowhere near having a settled team for what is the biggest task of his managerial career.
- My father lost his job and the dole payment was minute - nowhere near enough to live on.
- He wasn't satisfied with that, though, oh no, nowhere near satisfied with that.
- It was pretty good, although nowhere near as tasty as the dinner Jenny and Stefan made for us.
Synonyms off target, off the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the target, inaccurate, off course, astray, nowhere near, out
A situation or course of action offering no prospects of progress or advancement. 没有出路的处境；不可能成功的行动 Example sentencesExamples - Trouble is, such arrogance can lead just as quickly to a player heading off down a road to nowhere.
- I considered traveling again but I was worried that it was literally a road to nowhere.
- When it comes to the quality of our democracy we are traveling on a road to nowhere.
- Only time will judge whether the team is on a road to nowhere.
- Sandy Moffat (Seven Days, November 26) posed the question: is art on a road to nowhere?
- Short-term advantage for factory or farmer is a road to nowhere.
- I think Chris is on a road to nowhere with this one, partly because how you view Chomsky's assertion depends to a great extent on which evidence you accept and how much weight you attach to it, but mainly because I think he's wrong.
- But they have been so busy becoming politicians they know nothing about anything and are leading us on a road to nowhere.
- Once headed down a road to nowhere, Eddie George has turned into one of the true titans of the league
- Having been part of a few meandering relationships in recent years, that have ultimately been a trip on a road to nowhere, I'm not counting on anything just yet.
OriginOld English nāhwǣr (see no, where). |